Featured Speaker
Scenario Planning: Preparing for the Future of Design
Lisa Kay Solomon, Principal, LKS Partners
We can’t predict the future, but we can imagine credible possibilities. Scenario planning is a process that combines research, creativity, and ruthless curiosity to help organizations imagine, shape, and prepare for alternative futures. By inviting multiple perspectives to probe, question and collaborate around unfolding driving forces, we can encourage truly integrative thinking to shape our individual and collective futures.
Through this highly engaging and often visual process, scenario planning helps advance understanding of how to address and manage what is unknowable. For example, by 2020, will there be an emergent, shared worldview on the importance of design as a strategic function, or will the needs of independent functions trump the larger systemic view? How will emergent technology and the changing demographics shape the future of design strategy leadership? Will we see our next generation leaders come from traditional sources of design education or experience, or will they emerge from unexpected disciplines? What happens to design when the global economy takes its next significant fall?
Lisa Kay Solomon, a scenario planning and strategy practitioner and adjunct professor at the California College of Art’s DMBA program, will present a short introduction to what scenario planning is and how it can be useful in understanding the intersections between the five forces. Following a brief overview, participants will work in small groups to develop their own scenarios and implications for broader industry and the design community.
Lisa Kay Solomon, Principal, LKS Partners
Lisa Kay Solomon is the principal of LKS Partners, a practice focused on the design and facilitation of strategic leadership discussions. Lisa is also an adjunct professor at the California College of the Art’s MBA in Design Strategy, teaching their Innovation Studio course. Lisa also works closely with Stanford’s Graduate School of Business leadership program, and has presented on topics of visual thinking to the Stanford Sloan Masters Program and Stanford’s Media X Summer Institute.
Previously, Lisa spent nearly seven years at Monitor Group’s Global Business Network, helping organizations use scenario planning and rapid-fire ideation to engage in productive and collaborative conversations about the future. Her work has been presented to thousands of individuals in various public formats, including keynotes, panels, and dedicated training sessions. She was recently featured in a Businessweek.com article with Marshall Goldsmith on the future of work.
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