OUR APPROACH

Singapore's excellent toolkit for assessing the forces shaping the future

Defining Focus – to establish the nature of a problem, tools such as complexity theorist Dave Snowden’s Cynefin Framework Problem Definition are used. This framework divides problems into five domains -- simple, complicated, complex, chaotic and disorder -- in order to categorise problems and find appropriate solutions based on the domain they belong to. Environmental Scanning – to systematically examine the external environment to understand its nature and pace of change, and to identify potential challenges and opportunities. Tools include Emerging Issues Analysis, where we engage a wide range of thought leaders in various sectors to identify critical emerging issues. For more information on how we use this tool, please see Emerging Strategic Issues and Wildcards Programme below. Sense Making – to use raw information to piece together a comprehensive and comprehensible p...

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