Mapping Robust Business Performance (Post-Pandemic) Using Scenario Planning

May 21, 2020 | , ::

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Are you finding that the COVID-19 pandemic is creating unprecedented uncertainty for you, your organization and your industry or sector and supply chain?  Are you wondering what the new normal might look like and what it might mean for your organization?  Are you looking to invest or reinvest in proven tools and methods for tackling complexity?

In a crisis, survival dominates. The unprecedented impact of the COVID-19 pandemic and the emotions it triggers can overwhelm rational thinking about the future.  Organizations and their leaders must think ahead to the future that lies beyond today’s crisis.

In this workshop, you will:

• Learn about scenario planning and how it can be used to make sense of a very uncertain future
• Review several real-world examples and be exposed to some complementary tools and approaches to explore the future
• Understand how scenario planning structures uncertainty and builds engagement
• Explore the economic, social, political, technological, environmental and other impacts that could shape the post-COVID-19 future, especially as they apply to your organization
• Examine the linkage between the well-intended activities directed toward saving lives today and how they will result in both intended and unintended consequences tomorrow
• Put scenario planning principles to work by building a shared understanding of what might shape a post-pandemic future some 12 – 18 months out

Join us for this highly interactive event that will model the use of scenario learning to inform your organization’s enterprise strategy.  Subject matter experts deeply embedded in the industry will facilitate attendees to:

• Create multiple perspectives on the future
• Assess the forces shaping the future and those perspectives
• Weigh the issues raised
• Identify possible responses
• Evaluate scenario quantification tools
• Ascertain the use of signposts as an early warning system and the linkage to future outcomes
• Apply scenario planning analysis to the benefit of your organization

Throughout the entire day, attendees will be able to ask questions and engage fully in this thoroughly participatory workshop.

Learning Outcomes

• Evaluate how scenarios and scenario implications can be used to inform strategy
• Apply the value and process of scenario planning along with an array of complementary tools and approaches
• Illustrate some real-world examples of scenario planning that delivered benefits to public, private and not-for-profit organizations and multi-stakeholder groups
• Explore how we can apply scenario planning to build an understanding of what could shape various post-COVID-19 futures
• Assess ideas around scenario quantification and the use of scenario signposts as an early warning system
• Identify some important challenges, opportunities, risks and responses associated with various plausible post-COVID-19 futures

Credits

EUCI is accredited by the International Accreditors for Continuing Education and Training (IACET) and offers IACET CEUs for its learning events that comply with the ANSI/IACET Continuing Education and Training Standard. IACET is recognized internationally as a standard development organization and accrediting body that promotes quality of continuing education and training.

EUCI is authorized by IACET to offer 0.7 CEUs for this event.

 

Instructional Methods 

This program will feature PowerPoint Presentations and group discussions. 

Requirements For A Successful Completion Of Program 

Participants must log in for the entirety of the course to be eligible for continuing education credit. 

Thursday, May 21, 2020

All Times Central Time

8:00 – 8:30 am :: Log-in

8:30 – 9:00 am :: Session Opening, Attendee Introductions & Takeaways

9:00 – 10:00 am :: Review of Session Roadmap

 Introduction to Scenario Planning & Focal Question

10:00 – 10:30 am :: Future Changes

10:30 – 10:45 am :: Break

10:45 – 11:00 am :: Presentation & Validation of Driving Forces

11:00 am – 12:15 pm :: Critical Uncertainties

12:15 – 1:00 pm :: Lunch Break

1:00 – 2:00 pm :: Proposed Scenario Framework, Preliminary Characteristics

2:00 – 2:15 pm :: Break

2:15 – 3:15 pm :: Scenario Implications

3:15 – 3:30 pm :: Break

3:30 – 4:00 pm :: Focus Areas

4:00 – 4:15 pm :: Scenario Exercise Key Learnings & Insights

4:15 – 4:45 pm :: Quantification, Signposts & Bridging to Strategy

4:45 pm :: Program Adjournment

Arden Brummell, Managing Director, S2S

Arden Brummell is Managing Director of S2S, a consulting firm that helps organizations have important conversations by providing scenario, strategy and facilitation services.  He has more than 30 years’ experience in strategic management, corporate development and academic research. His particular focus is on scenario planning facilitation to promote organizational learning and strategic business development.  Dr. Brummell spent five years as a university professor in urban economic geography before joining Shell Canada in 1981. There he participated on the original scenario development team at Shell Canada and later became head of scenario and strategic studies. Twice, he was seconded to London, England to join Royal Dutch/Shell’s Group Planning department where he was part of the global scenario teams. In 1995, he established Decision Futures Inc. and in 1996 founded Global Business Network Canada. In 2005, Dr. Brummell joined Greg MacGillivray in establishing Scenarios to Strategy Inc.  He has led work with a variety of large and small companies, government departments and non-profit organizations helping them in focusing their strategic priorities and understanding change.  He has a Bachelor of Arts Degree from Queen’s University, as well as a Master of Arts Degree and a Ph.D. from McMaster University.

John Higgins, Chief Executive Officer & Owner/Founder, The SCP Group

John Higgins is Chief Executive Officer & Owner/Founder of The SCP Group. He has more than 35 years’ experience as a senior executive with leadership roles at Cervus Equipment Corporation, Signature Tractor Inc. and J.D. Irving, Ltd. He joined Cervus in 2007 as Vice President Operations, leading the company’s successful expansion into the Heavy Truck, Materials Handling and Construction Equipment markets. Before joining Cervus, Mr. Higgins was a General Manager with Signature Tractor Inc., running seven John Deere Agricultural and Consumer product dealerships throughout Québec and New Brunswick. Prior to that role, he spent more than 25 years as a core member of the J.D. Irving Ltd team, holding senior leadership positions in finance, operations, sales, sales management and general management for the company’s transportation, heavy equipment, forest products, retail and heavy trucking divisions. Mr. Higgins holds multiple post-graduate credentials and is a regular guest lecturer on Strategy, Culture and Leadership at the University of New Brunswick’s MBA program.

Greg MacGillivray, Managing Director, S2S

Greg MacGillivray is Managing Director of S2S, a consulting firm that helps organizations have important conversations by providing scenario, strategy and facilitation services.  With more than 30 years of experience in the private, public and not-for-profit sectors, Greg has very strong strategic and commercial expertise. After earning a Business Degree in 1986, he worked in the energy sector in finance, regulatory affairs, energy marketing and business development capacities at Voyager Energy, the Alberta Department of Energy and Suncor Energy. During this time, Greg acquired deep commercial, legal and regulatory knowledge in conventional and unconventional energy development, wholesale and retail energy marketing and sustainable development. During this time he also learned a great deal about scenario planning and strategy. In 2005, he established Scenarios to Strategy Inc, combining with colleague Arden Brummell in. Since founding S2S, he has worked with multiple clients in the oil, gas, transmission and power industry, as well as large government agencies and business associations on their strategic planning efforts.

Jack Riley, Executive Vice President & Owner/Founder, The SCP Group

Jack Riley is Executive Vice President & Owner/Founder of The SCP Group. He has over 30 years’ experience working in the oil and gas, infrastructure, construction and forest industry sectors, including leading and managing industrial equipment and commercial truck distribution networks that operate with complex organizational structures. He has developed and delivered change management programs, leadership coaching and mentoring programs, and training for operational and organizational excellence. He attended business studies at University of Alberta and Queen’s University, Smith School of Business. Today, while executing his talent for translating vision into action, Mr. Riley assists companies with successful strategic and cultural integrations and tactical action planning

Our courses are designed to be the best possible use of your valuable time – get the information you need to improve your position in the market in an interactive, dynamic format.

We will be using Microsoft Teams to facilitate your participation in the upcoming event. You do not need to have an existing Teams account in order to participate in the broadcast – the course will play in your browser and you will have the option of using a microphone to speak with the room and ask questions, or type any questions in via the chat window and our on-site representative will relay your question to the instructor.

• You will receive a meeting invitation will include a link to join the meeting.
• Separate meeting invitations will be sent for the morning and afternoon sessions of the course.
  • You will need to join the appropriate meeting at the appropriate time. 
• If you are using a microphone, please ensure that it is muted until such time as you need to ask a question.
• The remote meeting connection will be open approximately 30 minutes before the start of the course. We encourage you to connect as early as possible in case you experience any unforeseen problems.

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Mapping Robust Business Performance (Post-Pandemic) Using Scenario Planning

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Registration and Attendance Criteria

The program content and interactive participation for this event will be optimized for operating organizations in the power industry such as utilities (both and distribution and vertically integrated), independent power producers and merchant generators, system operators and balancing area authorities as well as load serving entities.  EUCI reserves the right to preclude registration and/or participation to any individual or organization that does not conform to the intended audience.