Any successful strategic planning process ought to prompt participants to see differently. If it does not do this, the strategic planning does little but reinforce current beliefs and is a waste of time.
Dr. Roch Parayre illustrates this point using the example of Encyclopedia Brittanica.
In this video, Dr. Paul Schoemaker describes a strategic planning process that focuses on anticipating multiple futures rather than attempting to do the impossible and predict the future.
For more on scenario planning see:
1. Scenario planning in finance
2. Implementing scenario planning in your organization
3. Interesting output from 1997 scenario planning exercise
