Scenario Thinking Preparing Your Organization for the Future in an Unpredictable World /

• Main Authors: Cairns, George (Author, http://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/aut), Wright, George (http://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/aut)
• Corporate Author: SpringerLink (Online service)
• Format: Electronic eBook
• Language: English
• Published: Cham : Springer International Publishing : Imprint: Palgrave Macmillan, 2018.
• Edition: 2nd ed. 2018.
• Subjects: Organization.; Planning.; Operations research.; Decision making.; Operations Research/Decision Theory.

Develops scenario planning methods in ways that link scenario analysis to improved decision making, engage time-poor senior decision makers, attenuate decision makers' tendency to deflect responsibility for bleak, negative scenario outcomes, and enhance causal analysis within scenario-storyline...

Table of Contents:

• Chapter1.Why should the individual and organization practice scenario thinking?
• Chapter 2.Working with scenarios: introducing the basic method
• Chapter3.Working with stakeholders: understanding stakeholder viewpoints and critiquing scenario storylines
• Chapter4.Augmenting scenario approaches: delving deeper and stretching wider
• Chapter5.Scenarios and decision analysis
• Chapter6.Creating robust strategies and robust organizations
• Chapter7.The backwards logic method of constructing extreme scenarios
• Chapter8.Diagnosing organizational receptiveness
• Chapter9.Lessons learnt from using scenario planning on the real world
• Chapter10.Evaluation of the effectiveness of scenario interventions within organizations.