During this two-day workshop, students learned an overview of scenario planning and completed two scenario-building exercises.
Scenario planning is a tool for handling situations where multiple future scenarios are possible, and the probability of each situation is hard to estimate. With the assumption that the future is uncertain, students worked together to expand their future vision. They then thought about what they would like to achieve regarding each scenario and thought backward from there to determine what they should do now.
Event Outline
| Course name | Fundamental Group Work for Leadership I, II Master’s/Doctoral Essential Group Work for Leadership |
| Guest facilitator | Hiroyuki Arai, Stylish Idea Inc. （Co-Facilitators：Sotaro Takenouchi, Kana Hasebe） |
| Date | Saturday, May 11, 2024 10:00-18:00 Saturday, May 18, 2024 10:00-18:00 |
| Venue | Ookayama, S4-202 |
Facilitator
Hiroyuki Arai
Representative Director, Stylish Idea, Inc.
Seminars by Stylish Idea
https://www.stylishidea.co.jp/seminars/
Day 1
Since many of the students were meeting each other for the first time in class, we took time to introduce ourselves to each other. We then learned about the various methods and positions of future insight and an overview of scenario planning. Finally, we worked on creating a scenario from a set of themes and research materials.
Day 2
We went through the scenario planning process from theme study, research, scenario creation, to response plan study. This time, each of the three groups decided on the following theme and created scenarios.
- Green Metropolis Initiative (2040, Tokyo)
- Use of Space (2040, Worldwide)
- Start-Up Ecosystem Development (2034, Japan)
Voices from Participants
- It was a good opportunity to think about things on an axis I wouldn’t normally think about.
- The second day was very fulfilling and enjoyable. It was particularly interesting that the final action reached was completely unimaginable at the beginning.
- The workshop was extremely informative and insightful. The practice of “Scenario Planning” and “Future Dialogue” can be applied not only at the corporate level but also on a personal level.
