Scenario Planning is a technique that overcomes the challenges associated with the long-term planning of complex projects that involve a large number of diverse stakeholders. Rather than trying to predict “the” state of the world decades into the future, Scenario Planning allows an organization to prepare for a range of plausible futures. This plays to the strengths of the planners and allows for comparison of strategies and investments across a variety of possible outcomes.
The Future Freight Flows team at CTL has developed four future scenarios: Millions of Markets, Global Marketplace, Naftastique!, and One World Order. They were developed over the course of a year through a series of focused expert panel sessions, practitioner acid testing, and industry wide surveys. The key driving forces and critical uncertainties were identified and formed the basis of the underlying scenarios. While originally designed to be used for freight transportation planning, they can be employed for a wide variety of different planning purposes.
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