Strategy

Re-Framing Value: How do you re-perceive where you want to be?

We work with some of the world’s leading scenarists and futurists. We know the future is inherently unpredictable. Planning for a single point future leads to failure. We naturally think about alternative futures, extending that to long-term scenarios when appropriate. Every organization should be able to mitigate their risk and wind-tunnel their strategies across a range of possible futures. The benefit in Scenarios is they are simple stories – “imagine if”, “a world in which” – which, while plausible, are designed to test current mental models. They are powerful tools for change.

Scenarios and related “learning tools” are best facilitated in workshops of 15 to 20 with a broad group of people. They are only useful when focused and require leadership and a “ruthless curiosity” to be successful. We have delivered programs in a number of formats. A good scenario program would typically take some months to complete. They are built on research, looking and thinking upstream supported by people and groups that go across boundaries and borders.

Scenarios are pointless unless they lead to new or strengthened strategies and to strategic foresight. Moving from Scenarios to action may take a number of forms.  Typically we test the scenarios in real-time.

We have worked with top teams and large scale “immersion” programs. At the end of the day, it is the conversation and how the organization holds it about the future, their customers and where they want to go that is important, compelling and most likely to create value.