Strategy Development & Scenario Planning
A practical capability-building programme focused on strategy development & scenario planning, designed for professionals and organisations seeking stronger performance and applied results.
- Type
- Executive
- Level
- Executive
- Duration
- 5 days
- Delivery
- In person, Live online, In-house
- Languages
- English, Arabic
Strategy Development & Scenario Planning develops the ability to formulate robust strategies in environments where future conditions cannot be predicted with confidence. The programme combines conventional strategy development with scenario planning to help organisations avoid relying on a single view of the future.
Participants learn to identify critical uncertainties, explore plausible future conditions, test strategic choices against different scenarios and develop options that remain resilient across multiple possibilities. The programme is particularly relevant to organisations operating in dynamic political, economic, technological or competitive environments.
Objectives
Develop stronger capability in strategy formulation and strategic choice.
Understand the principles and applications of scenario planning.
Identify critical uncertainties and drivers of future change.
Test strategic choices against multiple plausible future scenarios.
Develop more resilient strategic options and contingency responses.
Learning outcomes
Analyse strategic drivers, trends and uncertainties affecting an organisation.
Construct coherent and plausible strategic scenarios.
Evaluate strategic options against alternative future conditions.
Identify early indicators that signal movement toward particular scenarios.
Develop strategies with greater resilience, flexibility and adaptability.
Who it is for
Strategy and foresight professionals.
Executives and senior managers responsible for long-term direction.
Risk, transformation and business-planning professionals.
Government and public-policy professionals.
Leaders operating in volatile or rapidly changing sectors.
Programme modules
1. Strategy Development and Strategic Choice
Establishing the foundations for informed and coherent strategic choices.
Strategy formulation principles
Strategic positioning and advantage
Strategic choices and trade-offs
Assumptions behind strategy
From analysis to strategic direction
2. Understanding the Future Environment
Identifying trends, forces and uncertainties that may reshape the operating environment.
Environmental scanning
Political, economic, social and technological drivers
Trends versus uncertainties
Signals of emerging change
Assessing strategic significance
3. Building Strategic Scenarios
Developing structured and plausible alternative views of the future.
Scenario-planning principles
Selecting critical uncertainties
Scenario frameworks and logic
Developing scenario narratives
Testing scenario coherence
4. Testing Strategy Against Scenarios
Examining how strategic options perform under different future conditions.
Scenario implications
Stress-testing strategic choices
Identifying vulnerabilities
Robust versus scenario-specific options
Strategic contingencies
5. Strategic Resilience and Early Warning
Building adaptive strategies and mechanisms for recognising change early.
Strategic resilience
Leading indicators and signposts
Trigger points for strategic action
Adaptive strategic options
Continuous strategic monitoring
Methodology
The programme combines strategic analysis with facilitated scenario-building workshops, case examples and practical exercises. Participants identify real drivers and uncertainties, construct alternative futures and test strategic options against those scenarios.
The methodology emphasises disciplined exploration rather than prediction. Participants learn to use scenarios as a decision-support tool that improves the robustness and adaptability of organisational strategy.
Assessment
Participants are assessed through scenario-development exercises and a final strategy stress-testing task. The assessment considers the quality of the underlying analysis, scenario logic, strategic implications and the robustness of recommended actions.
Certificate
Certificate of Completion
For your organisation
This programme can be delivered for a single organisation, team or institution, and adapted to your context, participants and objectives.
Organisational delivery is scoped and priced individually, and is not booked from this page.
Upcoming sessions
No dates are scheduled at present.
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