Scenario planning
Scenario planning is a tool for structuring the myriad possibilities of how the future may evolve into a small set of understandable scenarios. This set of scenarios enables you to grasp and act on possible future developments. Scenarios provide you with a series of highly relevant playing fields for testing existing strategies, developing new ones and finding a path through current complexities to create success in the future. In developing and using scenarios, Prospex often works with client teams and stakeholders from across multiple sectors, cultures and societies. Developing scenarios in a multi-stakeholder setting dramatically improves the quality of the foresight and provides participants with a greater understanding and a commitment to follow-up, even in very challenging situations.
Prospex has top level expertise in developing scenarios, for which we apply different methods, adapted to the needs and challenges you face. These may be orientated towards distant future events or be closer to the present. They may be limited to a set of crisp narratives or involve the types of complex modelling, numerical data and maps that Prospex has worked on in collaboration with large-scale research & development projects.
How this service helps you
Scenarios enable you and your team, organisation, sector and even society to plan effectively for possible future developments. Through creating well-informed and plausible future scenarios it is possible to identify and understand the opportunities and challenges ahead and to test and develop strategies for best impact. This puts you ahead of the pack.
Client success
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Assessing Climate Change Adaption
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Working with Israelis, Palestinians and Jordanians on the Future of Water in the Middle East
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Capacity Building for Heads of Environment Protection Agencies
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Some like it hot!
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Preparing for the Pandemics of the Future
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EURECA – the Future of Agriculture and Protected Areas
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Foresight to Strategy: World-leading Energy Research Centre
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