Scenario Resources

Below are a number of resources for use in Scenario Planning. They’re included here as templates and downloads so that you or your team can engage in Scenario Planning within your organization and help to provide a tangible understanding of the devices of Scenario Planning in practice.

Tools

AMT Grid

Use this grid to analyze how to adapt, mitigate problems and thrive in each scenario. With your team, consider each scenario and brainstorm your strategies in each box on the grid.

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OSTS Grid

Use this grid to analyze the opportunities and threats in each scenario. With your team, consider strategies for taking advantage of the opportunities and reducing or avoiding the threats. Write your strategies in the corresponding boxes on the grid.

Download OSTS Grid PDFDownload OSTS Grid PPT

Scenarios Matrix

Write the critical uncertainties on each axis and use 4 descriptors for the ends.  Try to avoid “good vs bad” — aim for extremely DIFFERENT.

Then, describe each scenario quadrant by analyzing how the extremes combine to create a general scenario frame.

Download Matrix PDFDownload Matrix PPT

Videos

Theory & Use of Scenario Planning

Scenarios for Small Businesses

Scenario Planning Challenges

Scenarios and the 1611 Map of California

Podcast

Using Scenarios

Thomas is the Founder and Principal of Chermack Scenarios, which offers customized scenario planning and consulting. He develops systems to provoke new insights and connect decision-maker mental models to complex and uncertain environments.

Interviewed by: Peter Hayward

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