Scenarios to Strategy

Scenarios to Strategy is GBN's three-day, advanced training course for strategists and managers who are already familiar with the concepts of scenario planning but wish to expand and hone their skills. Offered exclusively onsite, the course will enable your organization to build internal capacity in scenario planning and connect it directly to your own strategic choices and processes. The course covers scoping and managing scenario projects effectively, using scenarios to generate strategic options, and testing and refining strategies through a scenaric lens.

More specifically, in this course, participants will learn to:

  • Identify how scenario planning can address different strategic situations in order to design your project effectively
  • Structure and adjust scenario projects, based on available time and resources
  • Choose and engage participants in the scenario process (core team, interviewees, external experts and provocateurs)
  • Define the focal questions and set the appropriate scope and expectations
  • Create, test, and refine strategic options, using scenarios as the platform
  • Identify early indicators for monitoring the external environment
  • Develop a scanning, monitoring, and scenario review process appropriate to your organization
  • Communicate scenarios to other stakeholders

The course is taught through a combination of lecture and simulation, using real questions or cases selected by you, the client, that are directly relevant to your own important strategic or research issues. This highly customized course can also include reviewing and coaching you on current scenario projects.

Prerequisites: Completion of GBN's Developing and Using Scenarios course OR significant participation in GBN-led scenario project (or equivalent).

Contact

For more information on arranging an onsite Scenarios to Strategy course for your organization, please contact info@gbn.com.