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Scenario planning

Meaning in management & leadership, with examples

nounAdvanced term

In management & leadership, scenario planning means: Exploring several plausible future situations to understand how strategic choices might perform under different conditions.

In Turkish: senaryo planlaması

How it is used

Use for alternative plausible futures rather than a prediction that one future will certainly happen.

Example sentences

  1. Scenario planning tested our expansion under both cheap energy and prolonged supply shortages.

    The same choice is examined against contrasting future conditions.

  2. The charity used scenario planning to explore how changing donations could affect its services.

    Alternative futures expose assumptions behind a service strategy.

Common collocations

  • use scenario planning
  • scenario planning workshop
  • contingency planA plan that describes what an organisation will do if something goes wrong or an unexpected event happens, such as a supplier failing or a key person leaving.
  • strategyA long-term plan that sets out where an organisation wants to go and the main choices it will make to get there, such as which markets to enter and what to stop doing.

More terms: Strategy and Planning

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