Preface
The fundamental premise of Using Scenarios is that having scenarios doesn’t mean anything if you don’t know how to use them. Creating scenarios is an important step in understanding how the external environment could change. It is a necessary activity, but it is not sufficient. In order to understand the benefits of scenarios, you have to be able to use them. This is a book about how to do that. Many approaches to scenario planning result in a few scenarios that may be provocative and help people think differently about the future. Although this can be a stimulating activity, it usually falls far short of what scenarios can really accomplish.
The scenario planning literature is dominated by various methods for creating scenarios. The ...
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