Scenarios are tools for ordering perceptions about alternative future environments in which today's decisions might be played out.In practice, scenarios resemble a set of stories, written or spoken, built around carefully constructed plots.
Scenario planning is the best tool for making strategic decisions in an environment of uncertainty. They allow foresighting teams develop common frameworks and languages to discous ambigyous future conditions and etheral technological concepts.
By integrating scenario planning exercises into the strategic-planning process, strategists ensure that their teams will manage to communicate clearly on issues related to opportunities, renewal, and future growth.
Scenarios provide a context for your strategy making, clarifying the risks and rewards of alternative courses of action, while allowing for paradigm shifting activities and out-of-the box thinking to take place during the strategy formulation exercise.