Why choose this programme? 

To prepare appropriate strategies 

Building and using scenarios will enable your organisation to gauge different sets of risks and opportunities, and prepare appropriate strategies accordingly. It equips you to cope better with uncertainty by anticipating the impact of changes that often seem beyond the control of any organisation but are nevertheless fundamental in their ability to re-shape and dramatically change the context in which organisation’s have previously secured success.

It's important to envision alternative realities

Scenario thinking and practice requires creativity to envision alternative realities, combined with analytical and research skills, as well as tolerance for ambiguity and the courage to embrace uncertainty as an opportunity and look beyond conventional wisdom. It encourages you to reflect on what you know, what you are certain will happen and what is critical but uncertain. Using scenarios involves effective communication and engagement, and harnesses the inherent human ability of storytelling to conveying meaning, encourage individual responsibility and mobilise action.

Lead scenario-based initiatives within your organisation

The Oxford Scenarios Programme empowers experienced decision makers and though leaders from all sectors to design, lead and deliver scenario-based initiatives and enhance their individual skills in scenario thinking.

Expand your options

Since there is no ‘book of possible futures’ with nicely delineated chapters, the aim of the programme is not to identify probabilities, but to enable your entire organisation, strategic partnership, or management and project teams to see, talk about and harness the widest possible set of options, by first exploring how  contextual change will reshape the conditions for success.

Visualising and remaining open to a spectrum of plausible futures can also enable us to enhance strategic conversations and actions, by respecting difference and diversity.

“Scenarios help to provide a way of learning from the future. In today’s world, it is the shared exploration of alternative solutions to complex and seemingly persistent global problems, rather than greater precision, that will help us transform such challenges.”