Scenario planning widens perspectives on future possibilities by examining multiple scenarios. It addresses challenges like collective blind spots, fragmented thinking, and balancing different viewpoints. Scenarios help identify important trends, uncertainties, and driving forces. The SEVS project used a scenario planning process to explore sustainable transportation solutions, showing vehicles can be both safe and energy efficient. Further work is needed to develop these solutions through merging society, technology, and different knowledge areas.

1. Scenario planning
- widening the perspective in SEVS
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2. Blind ”spot” = great risk
Uncertainty in time
Future
Uncertainty
in issue
Traditional prediction Possible
future
outcomes
Identify the most
important trends
and driving forces!
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3. Uncertainty in time
Future
Scenario A Scenario B Uncertainty
in issue
Possible
Traditional prediction
future
outcomes
Scenario C Scenario D
Identify the
uncertainties with
most impact =
critical uncertainties
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4. Proactivity The SEVS scenarios
Critical uncertainties Political control
ECO RADICALISM IN Scenarios
POLITICAL HARMONY
No change in Radical change in
transportation transportation
patterns by patterns by
life style life style
INCREMENTAL ECO
DEVELOPMENT INDIVIDUAL
Scenarios
Political passivity
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5. Scenario planning
process
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6. Scenario planning assumes
an outside-in perspective...
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7. ...and facilitates a
search for
Visible underlying driving
F E G forces and critical
effects
uncertainties
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Economy,
industries and
Technology
companies
development
X
and innovation ?
C
Politics, laws
and regulations
Environment
Driving forces and ecology
- critical
uncertainties Social factors, valuesB
Aand demography
- predetermined
elements
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8. Scenario planning
- meeting 3 challenges
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9. Challenge 1 - Collective blind
”spot” due to ”group think”
Uncertainty in time
Future
Prediction
Uncertainty
in issue
Possible
future
outcomes
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10. Challenge 2 - Inaction (or scattering of
resources) due to fragmented perspectives
Uncertainty in time
Future Prediction
Prediction
Uncertainty
in issue
Prediction
Possible
future Prediction
outcomes
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11. Challenge 3 - balancing different groups,
processes and knowledge areas
Future ?
Solving the problems of the Solving tomorrow’s
future with today’s tools problems with
tomorrow’s tools
Context/situation
Analysts,
politicians &
leaders
Engineers
Solving today’s problems & researchers Solving today’s
with today’s tools problems with
(everybody) tomorrow’s tools
Current
Current Technologies/knowledge/tools Future
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