How to Solve High Level Global Issues With Scenario Planning

©iStock/Drepicter

Scenario planning offers a powerful approach to testing strategies, making complex decisions, enhancing risk management, generating innovative initiatives, building optionality, improving organizational learning, and understanding uncertainty at different organization levels. 

Scenario planning is not exclusively an enterprise organizational tool. It can be just as effective with high-level global issues like climate change and disease, or even smaller business units and functional issues within an organization. It is a strategic tool for problems, big and small.

The level of scenario planning depends on the level of risk and uncertainty involved and the organizational level under consideration.  

Read on to learn more about how to solve high level global issues – big and small – with scenario planning.