Normative or Explorative Scenarios? Use the “Control Compass” to Find Out

by Ahmed Zayan

If you are familiar with scenario planning — here intended in the inclusive sense, i.e. intuitive logics scenarios as well as alternative futures approaches — or with futures and foresight in general, you might have heard that scenarios can be either explorative or normative, but what do those two terms even mean? and how do we decide whether we should do the…