Civil Works Strategic Planning Support

The U.S. Army Corps of Engineers is using a scenario-based approach to develop its next Civil Works Strategic Plan. Scenarios are used to identify those capabilities that are potentially required to respond to the circumstances depicted in each scenario. While traditional planners attempt to define the future and build plans to meet that future, scenario planners imagine different futures to stimulate thinking about how organizations might build strategies and capabilities to prepare proactively for multiple possible futures.

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