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== Class 1 == | |||
Anthology: How --- Epistemology: What <br> | |||
Process: How / The way --- Content: What<br> | |||
In a lot of discussions in business process and content are confused. | |||
Important in scenario thinking is the way a manager thinks, not the report.<br> Equally important is content. | |||
KNOW YOUR STUFF!! | |||
Drivers of scenario thinking: | |||
* What are we missing? | |||
* What don’t we know? | |||
Workshops are needed to decide for what time period you make scenarios (1 or 2 workshops) | |||
Complex things require complex presentation. | |||
Story telling works, bullets don’t! | |||
Best scenarios have high surprise and high likelihood. | |||
Everything you do is based on assumptions of the future. | |||
Only 2-3% of time of managers is spend on thinking about the future. | |||
Focussing for a long time give fresh insights. | |||
Value of scenarios is not in business as usual, because managers are capable of doing that, but in extraordinary information. |
Revision as of 15:48, 13 October 2005
Class 1
Anthology: How --- Epistemology: What
Process: How / The way --- Content: What
In a lot of discussions in business process and content are confused.
Important in scenario thinking is the way a manager thinks, not the report.
Equally important is content.
KNOW YOUR STUFF!!
Drivers of scenario thinking:
- What are we missing?
- What don’t we know?
Workshops are needed to decide for what time period you make scenarios (1 or 2 workshops)
Complex things require complex presentation.
Story telling works, bullets don’t!
Best scenarios have high surprise and high likelihood.
Everything you do is based on assumptions of the future.
Only 2-3% of time of managers is spend on thinking about the future.
Focussing for a long time give fresh insights.
Value of scenarios is not in business as usual, because managers are capable of doing that, but in extraordinary information.