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FaroPlanning — Scenario Planning

Explore multiple futures. Decide with confidence.

The methodology used by Shell, governments, and the Fortune 500 to make decisions in highly uncertain environments. Now available as an AI-guided SaaS platform.

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Explore multiple futures. Decide with confidence.
The Cost of Inaction

Why do organizations make poor strategic decisions?

Most plan for a single future. When reality shifts -- and it always does -- the strategy falls apart.

Fragile Decisions

Your strategy assumes ONE single future. When reality diverges, your entire plan crumbles and you are left without answers.

Delayed Response

Competitors who anticipated the changes capture the market. You arrive when the opportunities have already passed.

Fragmented Vision

Each department optimizes for conflicting goals. Without a shared vision of the future, the organization loses strategic cohesion.

Paralysis by Uncertainty

The lack of tools to explore futures paralyzes you. You postpone critical decisions while the world moves forward.

Methodology

A Proven 9-Step Process

Based on the methodology developed by Shell and the Stanford Research Institute, adapted as a SaaS platform with AI assistance at every step.

1

Strategic Question

Define the focus of your analysis. What decision do you need to make? The entire process revolves around this central question.

2

Environmental Forces

Understand what factors affect you. Identify political, economic, social, technological, environmental, and legal forces.

3

Critical Uncertainties

Identify what is truly unpredictable. Separate what you know from what you cannot control or predict.

4

Four Scenarios

Explore plausible, contrasting futures. Build narratives about alternative worlds that could materialize.

5

Strategic Analysis

Assess strengths and risks in each future. Understand how each scenario would impact you and where you are vulnerable.

6

Objectives & Actions

Define what to do in each scenario. Set specific objectives and concrete actions for each possible future.

7

Early Warning Signals

Monitor the environment to act in time. Define indicators that alert you to which scenario reality is moving toward.

8

Robust Objectives

Prioritize what always works. Identify the actions that generate value regardless of which future materializes.

9

Action Plan

Execute with clarity and accountability. Transform strategic reflection into a plan with deadlines, owners, and deliverables.

Differentiators

More than a tool: a strategic learning experience

You don't need to be a scenario planning expert. The platform guides you step by step, and AI enhances your analysis.

Learn by Doing

Each step includes integrated methodological training. Learn the theory while applying it to your real case. Your team emerges from the process with a new strategic capability.

AI Assistance

Artificial intelligence helps generate scenarios, structure analyses, identify inconsistencies, and enrich your narratives with relevant data and trends.

From Reflection to Action

You don't end up with a theoretical document. You end up with an executable action plan, with owners, deadlines, and early warning signals to activate each strategy.

Comparison

Without Planning vs With Planning

The difference between improvising and anticipating is reflected in every strategic decision your organization makes.

Without Scenario Planning

Strategy based on assumptions about a single future
Reactive and delayed decisions when the environment changes
Misaligned teams with contradictory visions
Vulnerability to regulatory and market changes
Missed opportunities due to lack of anticipation

With FaroPlanning by FaroNova

Multiple futures explored with methodological rigor
Proactive and robust decisions for any scenario
Shared vision of the future that aligns the entire organization
Organizational resilience in the face of disruptions
Sustainable competitive advantage through anticipation capability
Applications

Industries & Use Cases

Scenario planning adapts to any organization facing strategic decisions in uncertain environments.

Private Sector

Companies that need to anticipate the future to compete and grow.

  • Corporate strategic planning
  • Investment and new market evaluation
  • Digital transformation and technology adoption
  • Enterprise risk management

Public Sector

Governments and agencies designing policies for the future.

  • Robust public policy design
  • Urban and territorial planning
  • Sustainable development strategies
  • Crisis and emergency preparedness

NGOs & Consultants

Organizations that need to assess impact and design development strategies.

  • Long-term social impact strategies
  • Development and cooperation projects
  • Strategic consulting for clients
  • Facilitation of participatory processes
FaroNova Ecosystem

Feed your scenarios with real-time regulatory data

Scenario planning is more powerful when it draws on up-to-date regulatory intelligence. Connect FaroMonitor so your environmental forces, critical uncertainties, and early warning signals are backed by real data.

Up-to-date regulatory forcesIdentify regulatory changes that impact your scenarios
Automated early warning signalsReceive notifications when indicators from your scenarios are triggered
Validation with real dataGround your scenario narratives with regulatory evidence

FaroMonitor + FaroPlanning: complete strategic intelligence

Uncertainty is not going away

While you are thinking about it, your competition is already acting. Scenario planning gives you the framework to turn uncertainty into competitive advantage.