THE PROCESS
There is no fixed, here’s-how-you-do-it rulebook for conducting a scenario planning process or workshop. There are a lot of variations, and many experts have developed their own proprietary approaches, so each exercise is likely to be somewhat different, depending on the preferred methodology and experience of the experts facilitating the discussion.
However, even though there’s no one-size-fits-all approach, the scenario planning process as conducted by most experts usually proceeds according to a similar logic, which means…which means that it is likely to include some variation of the following six steps: