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Learning from the Future Before it Happens: Marketing as if the Future Mattered (Liam Fahey)

Watch Liam Fahey’s presentation from the September 23rd ISBM JAM Session on Better Decision Making. Liam discusses how to make decisions based on scenario planning taken from the perspective of alternate futures. Liam details how to craft fast-cycle scenarios to address marketplace uncertainty and ambiguity and then how to use them to inform marketing decision making. Special emphasis is placed on shaping and structuring data to create interesting and plausible alternative depictions of how the future might unfold (e.g. alternative industry projections), assessing the implications of alternative futures for current and anticipated decisions, as well as critiquing personal and organizational risk proclivities.