Behavioural issues in the practical application of scenario thinking: cognitive biases, effective group facilitation, and overcoming business-as-usual thinking

Stephanie Bryson; Megan Michelle Grime; Adarsh Murthy; George Wright

Behavioural issues in the practical application of scenario thinking: cognitive biases, effective group facilitation, and overcoming business-as-usual thinking

Stephanie Bryson, Megan Michelle Grime, Adarsh Murthy, George Wright

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In this chapter, we discuss and analyse the use of scenario interventions in organisations to overcome business-as-usual thinking - by promoting divergence of opinion and subsequent debate about the nature of the future. We shown that cognitive biases at the level of individual participants in a scenario workshop can both help and hinder the progression of scenario thinking and we go on to demonstrate how expert facilitation of the group process can help generate process-gain with the result that individually-held overconfidence is challenged and attenuated.

Original language	English
Title of host publication	Behavioural Operational Research
Subtitle of host publication	Theory, Methodology and Practice
Editors	Martin Kunc, Jonathan Malpass, Leroy White
Place of Publication	London
Publisher	Palgrave Macmillan Ltd.
Chapter	10
ISBN (Print)	978-1-137-53551-1
Publication status	Published - 29 Jun 2016

Keywords

business-as-usual thinking
scenario thinking
group behaviour
facilitation
overconfidence
cognitive biases
organisational inertia

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Bryson, Stephanie ; Grime, Megan Michelle ; Murthy, Adarsh et al. / Behavioural issues in the practical application of scenario thinking : cognitive biases, effective group facilitation, and overcoming business-as-usual thinking. Behavioural Operational Research: Theory, Methodology and Practice. editor / Martin Kunc ; Jonathan Malpass ; Leroy White. London : Palgrave Macmillan Ltd., 2016.

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Behavioural Operational Research: Theory, Methodology and Practice. ed. / Martin Kunc; Jonathan Malpass; Leroy White. London: Palgrave Macmillan Ltd., 2016.

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