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How to see the tree through the forest

Learn more about how scenario consulting can inform your organization's strategy.

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Chermack Scenarios helps organizations prepare for uncertain futures.

If your organization is struggling with uncertainty, scenario planning can help.  We offer packaged and customized scenario planning solutions for managing uncertainty with scenarios.

We help organizational leaders see the future in creative ways.  The goal of scenario planning is to build uncertainty into the planning process and enable decision-makers to anticipate change.

Connecting scenarios to action, decisions and options is our expertise.

Scenarios are a way of planning based on creating multiple futures.  Scenarios are different from strategic planning because they focus on the external environment and how it could change.  By creating multiple futures, you can build uncertainty into the planning process, which is critical in fast-changing environments.

What Scenario Planning is:

  • An approach to planning that reduces the risks of uncertainty by testing decisions and options in a variety of possible futures.
  • Scenarios are created for the purpose of examining the outcomes of key decisions and developing strategies.
  • When an organization has planned its response to multiple futures, it is resilient, agile, and capable of adapting to new circumstances at the speed of change.

What Scenario Planning is not:

Practices related to scenario planning with different objectives and approaches include:

  • Resiliency planning
  • Forecasting
  • Disaster recovery planning
  • Contingency planning
  • Sensitivity analysis
  • Delphi method
  • Probable futures

How Scenarios can be used:

Scenarios can be used to:

  • Generate strategies
  • Test decisions and options
  • Test existing strategic plans
  • Test business and financial models in multiple futures
  • Understand how to adapt, mitigate risks and thrive in multiple futures

Interested in working with us?

We’d love to connect and talk to you more about how Scenarios can take your organizational insights and strategy to the next level.

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