Scenarios
The benefits of Scenarios:
- Innovative thinking
Scenarios explore intractable or undiscussed uncertainties, encouraging broader thinking and countering groupthink. - Shared language
Scenarios create a shorthand terminology that can be understood intuitively across and beyond an organisation. - Increased cooperation
Scenarios incorporate multiple worldviews across traditional language and cultural barriers, so creating the potential to achieve fair process and deliver fair outcome. - Avoidance of costly mistakes
The collective nature of scenario building is resource intensive, yet considering 'what if?' is much cheaper and simpler than 'if only' regrets.
Alison Brimelow,
President, European Patent Office, 2007
