A Faster Way to Build Future Scenarios

Scenario planning is an invaluable tool for helping managers navigate uncertain business contexts. But the ways in which large organizations typically develop sets of scenarios are expensive and time-consuming and don’t deliver insights quickly enough. A streamlined planning process that frames scenarios around the people who will use them, surfaces unexamined strategic assumptions, and uses generative AI to assess and iteratively create new scenarios can yield useful insights more rapidly.

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MIT Sloan Management Review
Published
2025-12-09
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https://doi.org/10.63383/xlny2700
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Complex Systems and Decision Making
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A Faster Way to Build Future Scenarios

Trudi Lang, Rafael Ramírez, Joakim Köhler, Matt Mennell
MIT Sloan Management Review
Complex Systems and Decision Making
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A Faster Way to Build Future Scenarios

Trudi Lang, Rafael Ramírez, Joakim Köhler, Matt Mennell
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Abstract

Scenario planning is an invaluable tool for helping managers navigate uncertain business contexts. But the ways in which large organizations typically develop sets of scenarios are expensive and time-consuming and don’t deliver insights quickly enough. A streamlined planning process that frames scenarios around the people who will use them, surfaces unexamined strategic assumptions, and uses generative AI to assess and iteratively create new scenarios can yield useful insights more rapidly.

MIT Sloan Management ReviewVol. 67(2)
Openalex Percentile: Top 55%
Complex Systems and Decision Making
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