Insights in the Strategic Futures stream.
PESTLE analysis is the most misused tool in strategic planning. Done well, it changes decisions. Done badly, it produces a generic list of trends that sits in an appendix and is never read again. What separates the two.
Scenario planning at the provincial planning-team level is not the boardroom version of the exercise. The audience is different, the outputs are different, and the workshop shape has to be different. A practical two-day format that produces artefacts a provincial team can actually use.
Strategic futures planning is not forecasting. It is a disciplined method for expanding a board's peripheral vision so the organisation stops being surprised by the same class of event twice.