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Learning Scenario Planning by Doing Scenario Planning: A Hands-On Session

Presenter(s): William Daigneau, University of Texas M.D. Anderson Cancer Center; Paul R. Justison, Flad & Associates
Convener: Mike Owu, Massachusetts Institute of Technology

Learn about the theory and practice of scenario planning. Scenario planning rationally and artfully uses the uncertainties around a critical question to construct a set of scenarios that are then used as a virtual "wind tunnel" to test important decisions. Scenario planning can be flexibly accomplished, depending on organizational culture and the nature of specific problems. In a hands-on exercise, participants and facilitators will create a set of scenarios and test the implications of the scenarios for decision making. The session closes with a discussion on specific uses of scenario planning.
This knowledge resource from SCUP is a concurrent session presented at the Society's thirty-sixth annual, international conference and Expo, SCUP–36, in Boston, MA (USA), in July of 2001.

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