Intro -- FM -- Half Title -- Title Page -- Copy Right Page -- Dedication -- Contents -- List of Tables and Figures -- An Initial Reflection -- Chapter 1: Three cheers to uncertainty -- The Trap of Static Strategy -- Towards Dynamic Strategic Thinking -- Dimensions of Dynamic Strategy -- Clarity: Take the Long View -- Validity: Embrace Uncertainty and Manage Complexity -- Relevance: Execute with Purpose -- Chapter 2: The validity of traditional scenario planning -- What Are Scenarios? -- How Scenarios Differ from Predicting or Forecasting the Futu -- A Short History of Scenario Planning.

Scenario Planning Application -- Guidelines for Designing Scenarios -- The Long View -- Outside-in Thinking -- Plausibility -- Holistic View -- Embrace Uncertainty -- Zoom-out, Zoom-in -- Machine Objectivity Meets Human Intuition -- Number of Scenarios -- Scenario Team -- Chapter 3: The traditional scenario planning process -- Focal Question -- Driving Forces -- Critical Uncertainties -- Scenario Framework -- Scenario Narratives -- Implications and Options -- Monitoring Scenarios With Cutting-Edge Technology -- Chapter 4: How the scenario process is changing.

Crowdsourcing Ideas and Ai-Generated Insights -- Democratising Scenario Processes -- Speeding up the Scenario Process -- New Ways of Telling Stories -- Chapter 5: Superpower for strategists -- The Secret of Strategic Success -- and Failure -- The Original Strength of Strategists -- Our True Enemies -- Enemy No. 1: Complexity -- Enemy No. 2: Adaptiveness -- Attempts to Protect Against the Enemies -- Our Ultimate Superpower Against Our Strongest Enemies -- From Fiction to Science to Strategy -- Chapter 6: Real-time scenario modelling -- How ai can Augment the Research Stage -- Focal Question.

Driving Forces -- How ai can Augment The Modelling Stage -- Scenario Framework -- Scenario Narratives -- How ai Can Augment the Monitoring Stage -- Scenario Monitoring -- Scenario Health -- Chapter 7: Closing perspectives -- Perspective 1: Storytelling in a Data-Driven World -- Uncertainty Is a Given, But How Do We Master It? -- Strategy Is About Hard Facts -- Really? -- Strategy Beyond Ethics -- Maintain the Doubt -- Narratives Remain Valid in Strategy -- Perspective 2: The Future of Collective Sense-Making -- A Forced Upgrade to Collective Thinking -- The Stakes Could Not Be Higher.

Perspective 3: a Decision-Making Utopia -- A Story of Storytelling -- There Are No Simple Answers to Interesting Challenges -- Proposal for a New Decision-Making Culture -- References -- Index.

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