Companies
and Territories - "Guideline for strategic prospective
workshops"
Michel Godet in collaboration with Nathalie
Bassaler, Régine Monti and Saphia Richou National
Conservatory for Arts and Industries - LIPSOR
This seminar allows participants to
become familiar with basic concepts and tools of strategic
prospective as well as strategic mobilisation of people.
All predictions are a form of imposture because future is
not written and remain to be made. Future is not only the
result of hazard or a consequence of social and technological
determinism it is also the fruit of man and organisation
’s and will (companies and territories)
Everywhere “global vision is necessary for local action
“. Each person , must be able to understand the meaning
of his actions; Which means to integrate them in the big
picture.
Therefore , the mobilisation of actors as well as the development
of strategies are a common goal and cannot be reached separately;
Appropriation being the link between anticipation and action.
Appropriation allows action to become efficient and successful
.
The objective of these workshops’ days is through
a total immersion , to enter the prospective spirit in order
to serve strategic action. Strategic prospective workshops
allow to identify and form into a hierarchy the main stakes
of the future for companies and territories facing strategic
and competitive challenges .
At the end of the seminar , participants are able to define
their priorities and goals, draw up schedules , list methods
in order to organise the follow- up to the workshops.
Practical
cases are available in “Creating Futures, Scenario
Planning as a Strategic Management Tool,
by Michel GODET . Economica, 2001 as well as in LIPSOR’s
Working Papers. Please, also refer to the Tool
Box and to the Prospective
softwares site.
Bibliography
• GODET M. with DURANCE Ph. and GERBER A., Strategic Foresight -
La Prospective - Use and Misuse of Scenario Building, Cahier SR10.
The book is available entirely free of charge. 
• GODET M., Preface by COATES J. F., Creating Futures Scenario Planning as a Strategic Management Tool, Paris, Economica, 2006.
The book is available entirely free of charge.
• Chapter 5 - INITIATING THE ENTIRE PROCESS
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