Today's business environment grows more volatile and less predictable every day. A forecast of the future is no longer reliable for planning and strategy development. The ability of an organisation to survive and prosper in such an environment now depends on the skills of its leaders to enhance the learning and adapting capacities of the organisation.
Scenario-based Strategy
Thinking & Acting with Scenarios (Public Workshops)
Description:
Facing rapid change
The volatility of today's business environment is such that a forecast of the future is no longer a reliable method of planning and strategy development. The ability of an organisation to survive and prosper in such an environment increasingly depends on the skills of its leaders to enhance the capacity of their organisations to learn and adapt.
Participants:
This intensive workshop is designed for senior executives, line managers, strategy support staff and internal change agents.
Content:
Workshop Content
The Scenario Thinking programme consists of theory, practical applications and preparation for embedding Scenario Thinking in the workplace.
Theory
- Scenario Thinking versus traditional thinking
- framework of a typical scenario project
- scenarios and organisational transformation
- the latest research on the impact of scenarios
Practical application
Programme Results:
This C·I·L workshop enables you to:
- acquire the basic scenario thinking techniques
- see the impact of structures on current events and question assumptions -(systems thinking)
- challenge the "official future" of your organisation
- identify key concerns around current strategic thinking
- develop a framework for the scenario-building process in your own organisation
- gain hands-on experience in scenario building
- use scenarios for generating and testing strategic options
Thinking & Acting with Scenarios
Description:
During this highly interactive four day learning event participants familiarise themselves with the basic techniques of Scenario-Thinking and -Building. The participants work mostly in small groups, practising in a simulation of a scenario project. Developing a business model for the organisation enables testing this model in the scenarios for robustness.
Participants:
Senior executives, strategy support staff, line managers and internal change agents.
Programme Results:
- gain hands-on experience in scenario building
- acquire the basic Scenario methodology and techniques
- learn to see the impact of "structure" and question assumptions (systems thinking)
- challenge the "official future" of your organization
- learn to use scenarios for "wind tunnelling" generating and testing strategic options
- develop a framework for the scenario building process of your own organization
Duration:
4 consecutive days, 9h:00 -17h:00
Scenario Building Programme
Description:
Building scenarios for your own organisation is a learning process that will challenge the way the organisation thinks about and its plans for the future. Assisted by C·I·L an internal scenario workgroup will build 3-4 organisation-specific scenarios. During this process C·I·L transfers the scenario building skills to the group, empowering them to up-date and build scenarios in the future. Programme results build a set of organisation-specific scenarios, which form the basis for strategy development Analysing risks inherent in the Strategy or Business Model.
Participants:
This program is typically used by executives, planning staff, and people involved in strategy development.
Programme Results:
- build a set of organisation-specific scenarios, which form the basis for strategy development
- Analysing risks inherent in the Strategy or Business Model. Developing options
- Transferring Scenario-Thinking skills and - Building techniques
- Intensive personal learning for internal scenario teams, to start embedding scenario thinking organisation-wide
Duration:
Workshops with the scenario workgroup for a period of months, 2 consecutive days per workshop</p>
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