DECISIONS &STRATEGY

In an ever complex world, organisations regularly find themselves at a crossroad where they need to make 'high stake' choices among several alternatives that entail varied, uncertain, and potentially large, consequences :
  • Stakes are particularly high when the options are associated with high costs (e.g. infrastructure projects) or irreversible consequence
  • Uncertainty may result from the lack of data, from the difficulty to model or even foresee the ultimate implications of decisions as well as from the inherent contingency of the future
  • Potential alternatives are all the more difficult to compare when various criteria need to be considered : e.g.  short vs. long term, risk vs. ambition, effectiveness vs. feasibility, etc.... In addition the organisation may have to address multiple priorities or respond to different interests simultaneously.

In such situations, the organisation's response needs to be rooted in a proper appreciation of the issue(s) at hand, of its multiple dimensions and of the many implications of any potential course of action.

O'Future can support your organisation in addressing these complex challenges with the following services:

  • development of decision making tools: multicriteria analysis, cost-benefit analysis, ...
  • production of strategic analysis framework  (PESTLEE, SWOT, ...)
  • design and implementation of strategic foresight techniques
  • formulation of policy/strategy
  • planning and facilitation of stakeholder dialogue (see here)
  • construction of monitoring & evaluation indicators
The value that O'Future brings to an organisation through these services is threefold : the ability to  think 'wide', thanks to the provision of cross-sector, cross-discipline expertise; to think deep, thanks to detailed and precise insight; to think 'ahead', thanks to future thinking.

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