Scenario Planning for Nonprofits During Uncertain Times
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Scenario Planning for Nonprofits During Uncertain Times

ByPiAdmin

Our sister site www.ScenarioPlans.com talked about the importance of scenario planning for nonprofits: Scenario Planning with Nonprofits. Of course it is great to do scenario planning every few years so the plans (and contingency plans) are already developed, but most organizations don’t do formal scenario planning, at best, they do worst, best and most-likely case analysis once disaster has arrived. Look at the ScenarioPlans.com blog on Scenario Planning with Nonprofits. Useful tools at Bridgespan: Nonprofit…

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WEF Global Risks Report for Scenario Plans

ByDel Phi

The Global Risks Report 2021, 16th Ed., Insight Report, was just released by the World Economic Forum (WEF). This is one of the best places in the world to gather ideas for scenario planning, especially Chapter 1 on Fractured Futures.

Y2K Scenarios
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Scenario Planning when the Official View of the Future is Uncertain

ByDel Phi

What we can learn today from Y2K. Scenario Planning and Contingency Planning are needed now, more than ever.

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Scenarios Now and the Genius (hidden) within Crowd

ByDel Phi

It’s been about 10 years since the Great Recession of 2007-2008. (It formally started in December of 2007.) A 2009 McKinsey study showed that CEOs wished that they had done more scenario planning that would have made them more flexible and resilient through the great recession. In a 2011 article, Hall (2011) discusses the genius of crowds and group planning – especially scenario planning. The Hall article spent a lot of time assessing group collaboration,…