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Scenario Planning Workshop

Facilitate a scenario planning exercise for [organization] facing [strategic uncertainty]

Role-Based

Prompt

Facilitate a scenario planning exercise for [organization] facing [strategic uncertainty]. Step 1: Identify the 2 most critical and uncertain drivers of the future. Step 2: Create 4 scenarios using 2×2 matrix. For each scenario: (1) Narrative description (give it a name). (2) World in [X years]. (3) What happens to our core assumptions. (4) Strategic opportunities. (5) Existential threats. Step 3: Robust strategies that work across all 4 scenarios. Step 4: Early warning indicators for which scenario is unfolding.

How to use this prompt

  1. 1

    Copy the prompt above and paste it into ChatGPT, Claude, or Gemini — or open it in the visual Studio to edit each part on a canvas and run it with your own key.

  2. 2

    Replace any bracketed placeholders with your specifics. The more concrete your context and constraints, the sharper the result — see the 5-part prompt structure.

  3. 3

    Run it, then refine. Ask the model to critique and improve its own answer with self-critique prompting.

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