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Scenario process key elements
After reading this article you will..
- Know the main phases in the scenario process
- Understand how tentative scenarios can be created based on key trends, events and uncertainties
- Understand how final scenarios are tested and used in action-planning
- Know what leading indicators are and why they need to be chosen and quantified
Business and investment planning
- Investment project fundamentals
- Business and investment planning in the forest industry
- Conceptual phase
- Pre-feasibility phase
- Feasibility phase
- Organisational learning in investment projects
Authors & references
Author:
Antti Lindqvist
References:
- Schoemaker, P.J.H. 1993. Multiple Scenario Development: Its Conceptual and Behavioral Foundation. Strategic Management Journal, vol. 14, no. 3, pp. 193–213.
- Bood, R., Postma, T. 1997. Strategic Learning with Scenarios. European Management Journal, vol. 15, no. 6, pp. 633–647.
- Lindqvist, A. 2009. Engendering Group Support Based Foresight for Capital Intensive Manufacturing Industries – Case Paper and Steel Industry Scenarios by 2018, Acta Universitatis Lappeenrantaensis, 364, Lappeenranta University of Technology, Finland.
- Coyle, G. 2004. Practical Strategy – Structured Tools and Techniques. Harlow, Pearson Education Limited.
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This page has been updated 15.10.2020