Scenario Planning: Managing for the Future

by Gill Ringland (Author)

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  Hardcover
  1997

  $3.40

  Scenario planning techniques enable people to think about uncertainty in a structured way. This allows people to plan by encompassing the ranges of uncertainty by looking for early indicators of directions and by identifying possible courses of action. This book aims to provide an account of scenario planning and make area accessible to business decision makers, as well as corporate planners. It covers: what are scenarios,and how they relate to planning; why and when to use them; and how to use them (and how not to use them).

• Used

  Hardcover
  2006

  $3.40

  Scenario planning has received much top-level interest in the corporate sector as a way of realistically assessing the long-term future. Yet seldom are line managers included in initiatives, even though their exposure to customers and competitors means they often pick up subtle signals that are the first alert of changes to the operating environment. By exposing line managers to alternative scenarios, organizations can reduce the risk of ignoring the small environmental changes that are the advance warning for major discontinuities. Now completely updated in a new edition, the message of this practical, hands-on guide is that scenarios are not predictions or forecasts, but powerful weapons in managing the uncertainties of the future. Taking a conceptual rather than mathematical approach, it includes a wealth of case studies, checklists, early indicators and examples.