Scenario thinking
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Scenario Work
Publicly available scenario work that others have done:
- Mont Fleur Scenarios
- Future Tense. Collaboration between Slate, New America Foundation, and Arizona State University
- Stanford 2025
- Kitchens in 2040 (IKEA report)
- TBD Catalog
Toolkits
- Stuart Candy and Jeff Watson's The Thing From The Future card deck
Incorporating Online Tools
Scenario thinking has largely been practiced as a face-to-face process. However, there have been some explorations into integrating online tools into the process, and there are more opportunities to experiment.
Scan
- survey
- All Our Ideas
- Foresight Engine
Deliberation
See Also
GBN has great materials (both introductory and case examples) on scenario thinking. In particular, Diana Scearce and Katherine Fulton's What If?: The Art of Scenario Thinking for Nonprofits is an excellent introduction.
Other materials of interest:
- Opening access to scenario planning tools (changing the planning paradigm)
- Gail Taylor's blog post, "Scan and Play"
