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Whether for a municipality or for an organization, scenario planning searches for trends and patterns that have the capacity to emerge in your community or organization. BWR planning experts evaluate specific models, which may foretell potential scenarios - allowing you to prepare for successful strategic planning.
BWR uses a proven process that ensures a successful outcome. By working together in defining a timeframe, major stakeholders, known elements and trends, the BWR team will define top trends and uncertainties, followed by constructing plausible scenarios. Upon the outcome of these scenarios, the research will be used as a guide in strategic discussions and scenario planning begins. This is not about forecasting the future, rather trying to logically evaluate trends and factors that will affect the organization.
Why use scenario planning?
- To improve the quality of your strategic planning process.
- To envision possible future developments.
- Help your organization realize that the future will look different from how it is today.
- Review technology and regulations that might reshape service delivery and/or the mix of services provided.
- Stimulate dialogue and creative thinking about the organization’s future.
- Simplify data into focused strategic possibilities.
When should you use scenario planning?
- When uncertainty is highly relative to your ability to predict or adjust.
- When there are strong differences of opinion with multiple opinions having merit.
- When the organization / community is experiencing significant change or change is inevitable.
- When the organization needs a common language and framework that can be used by decision makers for critical projects.
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