How To Use Scenario-Based Strategic Planning: Preparing For More Than One Possible Future

How do you prepare for the future when you don’t know exactly what it will look like? This is a question nearly every provider organization executive asks now that workforce challenges, evolving treatment technologies, increased competition and consolidation, and new customer expectations regarding service delivery and financing are endemic to the health and human services market.

"Waiting for the dust to settle" when it comes to strategy isn’t a wise management choice. Instead, scenario-based planning is a tool for planning for multiple futures. Originally developed by the oil and gas industry to visualize possible future situations based . . .