Scenarios
Origin: Lat. scenarĭum
Plausible descriptions of how the future might unfold. Generally scenarios are a set of parallel, holistic pictures which integrate multiple forces and consider their impacts on various elements of the system.
Spanish: : Escenarios
Sources and references
- Institute for Alternartive Futures “Wiser Futures Workshop Compendium: Using futures tools to better understand and create the future”cited 31 times
Term connections
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Mentioned by
- Advanced Planning
- Anticipatory anthropology
- Aspirational futures
- Baseline
- Causal layered analysis
- Cone of plausibility
- Cultural evolution
- Disturbance generator
- Divergence mapping
- Econometrics models
- Experiential futures
- Exploration
- Exploratory scenarios
- Field anomaly relaxation method
- Foresight (future studies, futures thinking, anticipation)
- Forward theater
- Future course
- Games
- Global dynamics
- Government foresight
- IGO: Importance and Governance
- Images of the future
- Impact wheel
- In-depth interviews
- Interactive scenarios
- Machine Foresight
- Methods table
- Modelski model
- Morphological analysis
- Narrative, Storyline
- Qualitative techniques
- Robust decision-making
- Scenario (story, narrative, outcome, path)
- Scenario archetypes
- Scenario, context analysis
- Scenario levels
- Scenario matrix
- Scenario planning
- Scenario technique
- Scenario workshops
- Simulation modeling
- SOF, State of the Future Report
- Starter scenarios
- Substitution analysis
- Table of actor’s strategies
- Trend impact analysis
- Uncertainty
- Vision in futures
- Visionary future
- Wild cards
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