Strategy
Strategic Design Future Mapping
Strategic Design Future Mapping makes possible futures visible, informing today's decisions. Map emerging trends and signals of change onto a canvas. This makes abstract ideas tangible and shareable. Teams align on goals and prepare for various possibilities.
Duration
2 hours
Group Size
5-8
Category
Strategy
Difficulty
Easy
Participants will:
- Develop strategic foresight and future mapping skills.
- Systematically collect and categorize signals of change.
- Create multiple plausible future scenarios.
- Connect future possibilities to present strategy.
- Build organizational readiness for uncertainty.
Participants will leave with:
- A visual map of possible futures.
- Multiple scenarios for stress-testing current strategy.
- Identified signals to monitor as early warnings.
- A team aligned on an adaptive strategic approach.
- A foundation for ongoing foresight practice.
Remember:
Watch out for:
- Focus on multiple futures, not prediction.
- Use observable signals and trends.
- Make implications actionable.
- Document everything for future reference.
Watch out for:
- Teams defaulting to one 'likely' future.
- Ignoring uncomfortable scenarios.
- Analysis paralysis.
- Failure to connect insights to present actions. In my experience, starting with a pre-populated set of trends helps avoid blank-page paralysis.
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