Scenario Planning and Contingency Planning
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Scenario planning is a technique used to learn about the future by understanding the nature and impact of the most uncertain and important driving forces affecting our future, so you can be prepared to succeed in a changing world. Read more.
By FEMA
Your employees are your most valuable assets. Helping them to protect their families and property will be your most important step in post-disaster recovery. The first step is to develop a plan based upon natural disasters that are likely in your region of the country.
(Added: 31-Mar-2005 Hits: 578)
By Dan Paulk
What would be the effect of a "worst case scenario" if it occurred at your work facility (any kind of disaster or calamity)? It is important to try and calculate the "impact value" of a crisis because that will tell you how damaging a "critical incident" will be if there is no crisis intervention
(Added: 31-Mar-2005 Hits: 428)
By Don Edwards
For many a contingency planner, the career began with no script, no procedures, no direction, no budget, not much pay, and most importantly, no staff! Many of us had to begin by selling the idea of a hot-site contract to senior level management; hundreds of thousands in cost per year with no visible payback! And after months of work justifying the hot-site, our next step was to develop a test plan and test at a hot- site or backup site.
(Added: 22-Mar-2006 Hits: 700)
By Scearce & Fulton
From this article you can access an extensive guide to scenario planning for non-profit organizations in adobe acrobat format. Highly recommended, for anyone, profit or not that wants to learn about scenario planning
(Added: 22-Mar-2005 Hits: 506)
By Robert Gilman
In this short article from Context Magazine the author is presenting a simple process using some scenario mechanisms to break open the perspectives on the future.
(Added: 22-Mar-2005 Hits: 824)
By Ian Wilson
Strategic planning and scenario planning are useless, unless they can be translated into real adaptive actions in the real world. Here's how to do it.
(Added: 22-Mar-2005 Hits: 926)
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