Explain how future orientation, and specifically modern scenario techniques, help to address increasing risk and lead to more confident and robust decisions. This book draws on examples from a variety of settings and circumstances including the large corporations, inter-governmental organizations like the World Bank, and small firms.

What has previously remained jargon only accessible to the highest level of corporate and government futures planners here becomes comprehensible to a wider business and practitioner community.This book unlocks the high-powered secrets of scenario planning techniques - until now the reserve of large corporate players, governments and militaries - for a wide audience of business and organizational leaders. It presents powerful tools for all businesses or organizations in today's increasingly risky, complex and turbulent environments. It is authored by the world's leading scenarios experts, including Kees van der Heijden, author of the bestselling business book "Scenarios: The Art of Strategic Conversation".

Introduction
Intellectual History
Scenario Planning and the Search for Coincidences and Differences
Reflecting on Scenario Practice
New Forms of Coherence
Turbulence in the Indian Agricultural Sector
Swarm Planning: A New Design Paradigm Dealing with Long Term Problems like Climate Change
Designing More Effective Political Governance of Turbulent Fields
To What Extent do Venezuela's Causal Textures Allow Scenarios to Work Towards Social Dialogue?
The Disruptive Aspect of Turbulence
Scenarios Providing Clarity to Address Turbulence
From Causal Textures to Predetermined Elements to New Realities in Scenario Thinking and Practice
Conceptions of Fairness and the Forming of the Common Ground
Turbulence and Corporate Social Responsibility
Conclusion.