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    SCENARIC

     

     

    STRATEGIC SENSEMAKING FOR COMPLEX TIMES

  • STRATEGIC FORESIGHT AND SCENARIO PLANNING

    Prepare for alternative futures

    As change accelerates and generates more systemic novelty, on what basis can decisions be made? Leading with more than 25 years’ experience with scenario planning, foresight, and innovation, Scenaric helps clients succeed with proprietary tactics and tools to confront and manage radical uncertainty in our highly fluid contemporary context.

    Better strategic conversations and more actionable insights

    We develop customized processes and facilitate conversations to help people and organizations prepare for unpredictable futures and better navigate change. We help clarify problems, test strategies, identify new opportunities, and articulate options—all the while enhancing the organizational capacity to act with foresight and strategic intent.

    Across sectors and continents

    Scenaric's clients range from multinational companies and utilities to non-profits, laboratories, and cities. Recent work spans energy, advanced technology, luxury, legal and financial services, among others.

  • What SCENARIC DoES

    Bespoke engagements and projects

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    Create strategic plans with decision makers

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    Conduct scenario planning

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    Design Board and executive retreats

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    Facilitate difficult conversations

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    Develop stakeholder engagements

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    Advise on foresight and strategy

  • How engagements work

    1. Scoping. A conversation with the sponsor to define the decision at stake and who needs to be involved.
    2. Design. A bespoke process, often informed by interviews or research.
    3. Delivery. Workshops, retreats or a series of sessions, in person or virtual.
    4. Follow-through. A written synthesis and support for putting the work to use.

    Results


    Scenaric engagements have helped leaders stress-test major decisions and course-correct, build in-house strategic intelligence and scenario planning functions, align on key issues after months of stalemate, and spot opportunities others missed.

    Clients who have trusted Scenaric:

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    LEADERSHIP

    Dr. Cynthia Selin is a social scientist with 25 years of practice in strategic foresight, scenario planning, and stakeholder engagement. She is an Associate Fellow at Oxford's Saïd Business School, where She directs the Oxford Scenarios Facilitation Programme and has taught on the Oxford Scenarios Programme since 2013. She founded the Center for the Study of Futures at Arizona State University, where she was a tenured faculty member, and has published more than 40 peer-reviewed works on foresight and anticipatory governance of emerging technologies.

    PhD, Copenhagen Business School. More about Cynthia.

  • Contact Us

    Get in touch for a consultation.