Research Catalog

Title

Scenario thinking : practical approaches to the future / George Wright, George Cairns.

Author

Wright, George, 1952-

Publication

Houndmills, Basingstoke, Hampshire, UK ; New York, NY : Palgrave Macmillan, 2011.

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Additional Authors

Cairns, George.

Description

xvi, 176 pages : illustrations; 24 cm

Summary

"Presents new methods in scenario thinking, based on a mix of high-level research and top-level consultancy experience. The authors describe the logical bases of a range of scenario methods and provide detailed 'road maps' on how to implement them - together with practical examples of their application"--

Subject

• Business planning
• Strategic planning
• Decision making
• Organizational change
• Business and Management
• Business planning
• Organizational change
• Strategic planning
• Unternehmensplanung
• Strategische Planung
• Entscheidungsfindung
• Organisationswandel
• Corporate planning
• Communicating
• Project management

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references (pages 168-172) and index.

Access (note)

• Electronic version is restricted to subscribing institutions.

Processing Action (note)

• committed to retain

Contents

Why should the individual and organization practice scenario thinking? -- Working with scenarios : introducing the basic method -- Incorporating stakeholder values and facilitating critique of scenario storylines -- Understanding stakeholder viewpoints. -- Augmented scenario approaches : delving deeper and stretching wider -- Scenarios and decision analysis -- Creating robust strategies and robust organizations -- The backward logic method of constructing extreme scenarios -- Diagnosing organizational receptiveness.

ISBN

• 9780230271562
• 0230271561
• 9780230306899
• 0230306896

LCCN

2011016869

OCLC

• 682894823
• SCSB-10310196

Owning Institutions

Harvard Library