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Until now, we have documented our innovations to the scenario method in a rational, step-by-step way—much like following a recipe in a cook book. A methodology is chosen and then applied in a straightforward way to engage an organization’s key decision makers in thinking deeply about the future. In reality, organizational life is more complex and a scenario-based intervention that seems, on the face of it, to be uncontroversial and straightforward may not be so.
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Cairns, G., Wright, G. (2018). Diagnosing Organizational Receptiveness. In: Scenario Thinking. Palgrave Macmillan, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-49067-0_9
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