Scenario Planning I
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Duration | 19 hours |
Total fee | Free |
Mode of learning | Online |
Official Website | Explore Free Course  |
Credential | Certificate |
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Scenario Planning I at Coursera Course details
- Scenario Planning is a strategic foresight methodology that involves creating multiple plausible future scenarios to anticipate and prepare for various potential outcomes. This approach helps organizations navigate uncertainty by exploring alternative visions of the future and developing strategies to adapt to different circumstances. Participants learn to identify key drivers, assess uncertainties, and formulate flexible plans to enhance organizational resilience and decision-making in dynamic environments.
Scenario Planning I at Coursera Curriculum
The method
Welcome video
The future as scenarios visions
Scenarios: A broad overview
Scenarios and planning - Do they fit together?
The different ways to look at scenarios -Part I
The different ways to look at scenarios -Part II
Contribution of Scenario Planning to strategic management
The meta-framework concept and its variations
The crucial features of scenario planning - Part I
The crucial features of scenario planning - Part II: Macro-processes
Building a template for meta-framework design
Designing examples of meta-framework for scenario planning - Part I
Designing examples of meta-framework for scenario planning - Part II
A word on strategy and scenario planning
Filling up the meta-framework
Framing - Part I: Preparation
Framing - Part II: PESTEL Analysis
Framing - Part III: Industry analysis
Recommended reading: A review of scenario planning literature
Otional reading: Living in the futures
Optional reading: Ethical Leadership and the Psychology of Decision Making
Scenario Planning I - Complete slide deck
Recommended reading: Action verbs list
Optional reading: A review of scenario planning
Optional reading: Scenarios practices - in search of a theory
Practice quiz 1
Practice quiz 2
Practice quiz 3
Practice quiz 4
Practice quiz 5
Week 1: Graded Quiz
Scenario Planning in action
Framing: Polishing the basics
Stress-testing the basics
Framing: Not a step-by-step - A cloud
What is the objective again?
Scanning: Searching is science and art
Scanning: Look, feel, and sense (LFS)
Creating: Developing scenarios
Creating: Managing the plausibility choices
Creating: Developing the scenarios - Putting the parts together
Creating: The final four scenarios
Creating: Linking to planning
Now what? From scenarios to the planning function
Planning: Making choices and defining the ins and outs
Planning: Building the maps and panels
Actioning: The objective
Actioning: The dynamics of the journey
Final Project Instructions
Recommended reading: Trend Impact Analysis
Preactice quiz 6
Practice quiz 7
Practice quiz 8
Practice quiz 9
Practice quiz 10
Week 2: Graded quiz
Final Project and extras
Synchronizing the Final Project
Scenario Planning I and II: The Capstone Project
SP-I Final Project development recommendations
Hypotheses: Heavy trends analysis
Hypotheses map and the final four
CLA: The method
Applying CLA in a scenario planning
Check for the project advancement - Foresight problem
Check the strategic issues and uncertainties
Mind the gap
Recommended reading: The link between the SP-I Final Project and the SP-II Final Project
Recommended reading: The Causal Layered Analysis (CLA) Reader
Reading Material: FINAL PROJECT - A quick follow-up instructional to review and adjust the project basics
Practice quiz 11
Practice quiz 12
Week 3 - Graded quiz
The challenges
Human flaws in regards the future
Be aware of the isolation effect
Recommended Reading: Are futures organizations 'ahead of their times'?
Recommended Reading: Check the breadth of the project basics
Quick mental exercise
Practice quiz 13
Practice quiz 14
Practice quiz 15
Week 4 - Graded Quiz
Final Project follow-up
Scanning platforms
The platforms applications
Are you stuck in the foresight problem?
Are you stuck in the strategic issues?
Are you stuck in the uncertainties?
Practice quiz 16
Practice quiz 17
Practice quiz 18
Practice quiz 19
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