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ACI
Futures Scenarios Driver
This ACI Driver has been developed for:
- Managers who need effective strategic
development methods - not just planning, but internal development to
deal with and engage with future change; and
- Managers who are planning expansion,
facing significant market change, restructuring or reinventing
Need:
ACI Futures Scenarios will step up your
Strategic Development. It will enhance your capacity to:
- Develop your future scenarios,
- Develop the intelligence to anticipate,
and the speed and agility to respond to future events
Key Considerations:
- What
are the important but uncertain events that might determine your business
future?
- What is your capacity
to anticipate trends and events relevant to your business?
- Do you have the speed
and agility to respond to unanticipated change?
- How can you develop a
knowledge base for collecting intelligence on developments affecting
your business?
Methodology:
1 - Ensuring that possibilities for future
directions are
- Strategically created and identified;
and
- Qualified
2 - Ensuring that reactions to possible
changes are
- Comprehensively researched and documented;
and
- Validated, including risk assessments.
3 - Identifying scenarios of possible futures
- Developing scenarios and identifying
key indicators;
- Researching and scanning internal and
external factors;
- Identifying certain/uncertain, important/unimportant
factors;
- Illustrating the scenarios, including
logistical and cultural or people issues;
- Researching and generating business plans
with recommendations; their implementation; and their risks and benefits.
4 - Participants present
- Valid recommendations for change;
- Valid possibilities for the implementation
of recommendations;
- Valid risks and benefits of the implementation
of recommendations.
5 - ACI supports the investigative research
process through
- Idea-generation techniques;
- Reflective skills and strategies;
- Interpersonal skills and strategies;
- Critical thinking skills and strategies;
- Research skills and techniques;
- S.I.S.
group work.
6 - Dynamic knowledge management library
stores presentations, interviews, research documentation
Your business has planned
Futures Scenarios ready for implementation. Critical factors are anticipated
and the organisation has the speed and agility to respond = Accelerated
Corporate Intelligence
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