Table 1.

Scenario planning stages and activities for different contexts

Business context (13)	Community development context
Steps	Focus group	Stages	Activities
Identifying focal issue Identifying key forces influencing issue in the local environment and their driving forces	1	Opening a time-perspective, connecting to experience	Refined focal issue Identified and ranked driving forces by importance
Ranking these by importance and uncertainty Selecting scenario logics	2	Analyze and project	‘Told’ scenarios for the most uncertain, ranked, paired combinations of drivers
Fleshing out scenarios Discussing their implications	3	Scale to real-life first steps	Listened to scenarios Discussed implications, options, and next steps
Selecting leading indicators for monitoring Adapting plans accordingly	4	Self-assessment of scenario process – build ownership	Discussed usefulness, sustainability, and application of scenarios building process/tool