The Chartered Institute of Personnel and Development

Short training courses

Content of Scenario Planning - managing for the unknown

Programme

  • what scenario planning is about and how you can use it
  • history of scenario planning and examples of successes
  • identify the key factors that impact your business in the outside world
  • choose two of these key factors to build a ‘matrix of futures’
  • develop four different possible futures
  • identify the markers in the development of each of these futures
  • work through what your business would need to do differently for each of these possible futures:
    • finance
    • marketing
    • sales
    • HR
    • R & D
    • operations/manufacturing
    • procurement
  • identify what you will have to do differently in your job for each of these future scenarios.
  • identify how you can use this tool for the benefit of your own organisation

Review and action planning.