How can you use feedback from futurists and scenario planners to improve CRE decisions?

2 Why are they useful for CRE decisions?

CRE decisions often involve long-term commitments, large investments, and multiple stakeholders. They also have to account for changing customer needs, market conditions, regulatory frameworks, and environmental impacts. By using feedback from futurists and scenario planners, you can gain insights into how your CRE strategy might perform under different future conditions. You can also identify potential risks, opportunities, and trade-offs that you might otherwise overlook or underestimate. This can help you make more informed, flexible, and robust CRE decisions.

3 How can you use feedback from futurists and scenario planners?

There are various ways to utilize feedback from futurists and scenario planners, depending on your goals, resources, and context. For example, you could commission a custom-made scenario planning project from a professional futurist or scenario planner. This would include defining the scope, objectives, key questions, and stakeholders. Additionally, research, analysis and consultation would be conducted to create a set of scenarios that are relevant, plausible, and challenging for your CRE decision. Moreover, workshops or presentations would be facilitated to share the scenarios and their implications with you and your stakeholders. Alternatively, you could use existing scenarios from reputable sources such as industry associations, think tanks or academic institutions that cover topics or sectors related to your CRE decision. These could be adapted to your specific context or used as a starting point for your own scenario development. Furthermore, you could create your own scenarios using online tools such as software, templates or guides that help structure and visualize your scenario planning process. Involving your team, colleagues or partners in brainstorming, researching and testing your scenarios is also possible. Finally, online platforms such as forums, blogs or podcasts can be used to share your scenarios and gain feedback from other futurists, scenario planners or CRE professionals.

5 What are the challenges of using feedback from futurists and scenario planners?

Using feedback from futurists and scenario planners can also pose some challenges for your CRE decisions, such as complexity and uncertainty due to multiple variables, factors, and scenarios that might not have clear or definitive answers or outcomes. Additionally, you may face resistance and skepticism when confronted with different opinions, values, and interests that might not agree or support your CRE decision. Furthermore, you could experience difficulty and cost when investing time, money, and resources in a process that might not have immediate or tangible results or returns.

6 Here’s what else to consider

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