This Strategic Foresight Tool Set (Scanning, Analysis, & Forecasting) Consists of: Scanning Tools: Environmental Scanning Template: To document multiple different trends and events they are observing based on their environmental scanning work. Horizon Scanning Template: To document multiple different trends and events they are observing based on their horizon scanning work. Trend Scouting Template: To document a specific Trend Scouting Study undertaken on behalf of an organization. Listening Posts Log: To document the Key Observations being made at and by a given Listening Post (either physical or virtual) operated by the organization. Traditional Delphi Study Log: To document the planned Questions of a given (traditional) Delphi Method Study, and thereafter track the Responses from the Respondents participating in the Study, across a series of different Rounds. Real Time Delphi Study Log: To document the planned Questions of a given Real Time Delphi Method Study, and thereafter track the Responses from the Respondents participating in the Study, across a series of different Rounds. Analysis & Forecasting Tools PESTEL Analysis Template: To document their analysis of specific PESTEL trends and events being observed, including each one’s potential impact on the organization. Trend Impact Analysis Template: To document their analyses of specific trends and events they are observing, including each one’s potential impact on the organization. Long Range Forecasting Template: To document extended forecasts of specific trends and/or situations Analysts have been observing and studying, including each one’s potential long-term impact on the organization and its work. Qualitative Cross Impact Analysis Matrix: To study and document the expected (qualitative) cross-impacts of various different trends on one another. Quantitative Simulation Template: To document the plans for, and outcomes of, undertaking specific Quantitative Simulations on behalf of their organization. Wild Cards Analysis Template: To document what is believed to potentially be a Wild Card in the making, and to reflect an analysis of each such potential Wild Card. Futures Wheel Template: To provide a visual tool by which teams can explore and document the different primary, secondary, tertiary – and so on – consequences of having a particular trend or situation play out, or else of pursuing a particular new strategy. Scenario Analysis Template: To develop and document various different future scenarios by – in each case – superimposing the extreme states of two independent but complimentary trends against one another – both of which are impactful to the organization. Scenario Planning Template: To comparatively study the nature of different future scenarios one against the other. |