• Many of the challenges facing organisations are first tackled under the heading of Business Strategy, either at the centre of the organisation or in a line unit. But resilient decisions are needed across the organisation.

• For instance the success rate of Mergers and Acquisitions is famously low - the use of scenarios can improve the understanding of the future environment in which the merger or acquisition will operate, help identify future risks and opportunities, and so increase the success rate.

• The challenge in Research and Product Development is to channel the resources - human and financial into a good mixture of urgent and important areas. Using scenarios helps flesh out the worlds in which the products under development will emerge.

• Marketing is one of the areas of companies's activities that has very long term effects - so using scenarios to flesh out the possible futures can have amazing effects.

• Scenarios have often been used for designing Organizational change and management development, but a clear view of possible futures has also been found to be important in implementing change. A parallel key task of any organisation is to develop its management, and scenarios can provide a framework for thinking out of the box and developing a cross-organisational understanding.

• The use of scenarios in Project and Facility Planning has not been as extensive as in other areas but offers great potential in analysing possible project outcomes and developing cohesive project targets.

• Risk management covers a range of operational and strategic risks - a taxonomy shows the relationships - the use of scenarios is well understood across the range of risks. We can also provide a Horizon Scanning Service to help clients to help identify the long term issues facing them.

• In the public sector we have successfully used scenarios to assist in the development and assessment of public policy.

"As for the future, your task is not to foresee, but to enable it"   Antoine de St.Exupery