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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