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Strategy Planning
​& Insights

When you investigate challenges and opportunities in new ways, you get new insights and solutions.  Kineticor's methods take business teams, leaders and owners through unique explorations that result in pragmatic action items, stable growth, and greater significance to those you aim to serve. ​

Trend-storming  Uncertainty-based Scenario Planning

Today's businesses operate in a very vulnerable, uncertain, complex and ambiguous world (VUCA). Without a methodical, creative and extremely practical approach to dealing with these real-world factors, you and your team will still be right...sometimes. By simulating the future, businesses and teams make themselves ready for uncertain surprises.

The Trend-storming method systematically and creatively explores uncertain but also critically important future scenarios for the primary purpose of helping users make very important complex and typically emotionally-charged business and/or life decisions. It helps users (individuals, teams, , etc.) more easily sort through the multitude of factors that make their decisions challenging so that they can arrive at decisions more objectively, faster and more confidently with greater clarity and a better ability to communicate their decisions (and their rationale for them) to others.

While no one can predict the future, and especially not in highly uncertain situations, the Trend-storming method empowers users to explore it with very pragmatic insights and results.  The Trend-storming method honors participants’ very human emotions while managing their intensity when needed to avoid distraction and bias. 

Trend-storming results
  1. Confident, clear and more objective decisions, faster and with more factors considered
  2. Identification of post-decision investments that will need to be made in order to make the decision successful
  3. Identification of factors to monitor over time that tell users to either hold on to the decision already made or potentially make a different one if certain conditions arise
  4. A framework that users can refer to whenever needed to remember why a certain decision was made AND to make decisions about other issues that arise after the fact
 
The Trend-storming Process
1.       Identify Focus Questions that keep the process centered on issues that need to be addressed
2.       Navigate a focused array of trends, events and situations that are shaping our world, as well as the uncertainties that they create
3.       Methodically explore 4 uncertain polar future scenarios
4.       Summarize key findings and resulting decisions

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