Navigating The Future: Scenario Planning For Social Entrepreneurs
Thursday, April 15, 2010
Session Description
How can social entrepreneurs build effective strategies in the midst of social, technical, economic, political and environmental externalities? Scenario planning is a powerful tool used by governments and Fortune 500 corporations alike in building focused yet responsive strategies to guide their organisations. Join scenarios expert Dr. Rafael Ramirez for this master class on a process that combines known facts about the future with alternative plausible pathways. Leave the session armed with methodologies and practical next steps to improve your organisation’s longer-range vision.
Time & Location
Time:
09:00 - 10:30, Thursday, April 15, 2010
BST
Speakers
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Speaker
James Martin Senior Research Fellow in Futures, University of Oxford
Rafael RamĂrez is a James Martin Senior Research Fellow in Futures at the Oxford Institute for Science, Innovation & Society. He is also co-chairman of the World Economic Forum Global Agenda Council on Strategic Foresight. Past posts include Professor of Management, HEC Paris; Visiting Professor of Scenarios and Corporate Strategy, Shell International, and co-founder of Oxford Scenarios Programme and Oxford Futures Forum.