{"id":74249,"date":"2025-02-10T14:50:15","date_gmt":"2025-02-10T18:50:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.prosymmetry.com\/?p=74249"},"modified":"2025-02-10T15:52:01","modified_gmt":"2025-02-10T19:52:01","slug":"guide-to-portfolio-success-with-scenario-planning","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.prosymmetry.com\/blog\/guide-to-portfolio-success-with-scenario-planning","title":{"rendered":"Guide to Portfolio Success with Scenario Planning"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Current best practices for businesses, from the PMOs to C-Suites, include asking \u201cwhat if\u201d questions as a vital step for company success. Entire organizations are now doing strategic planning to be prepared for disruption and those \u201cworst case\u201d scenarios. It has not always been an acceptable conversation among leaders to acknowledge those \u201cwhat if\u201d scenarios, admit that a plan needs to be developed, and figure out answers. We went searching for how corporate leaders felt about scenario planning a generation ago. This <a href=\"https:\/\/hbr.org\/1985\/11\/scenarios-shooting-the-rapids\" target=\"_blank\">1985 article from Harvard Business Review<\/a> demonstrates how an executive might have been seen by colleagues as \u201cincompetent\u201d or \u201cunprofessional\u201d if you presented options for various business outcomes. The generation of leaders at the time grew up in a period (1950s and 1960s) of a relatively steady economy and didn\u2019t think as much about scenarios.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center; margin-top: 30px;\"><a class=\"btn-blue\" href=\"\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/02\/Tempus_Guide_to_Portfolio_Success.pdf\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Download this Guide as a PDF<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Current best practices for businesses, from the PMOs to C-Suites, include asking \u201cwhat if\u201d questions as a vital step for company success. Entire organizations are now doing strategic planning to be prepared for disruption and those \u201cworst case\u201d scenarios. It has not always been an acceptable conversation among leaders to acknowledge those \u201cwhat if\u201d scenarios, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":74262,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[11],"tags":[],"use-case":[],"content-type":[59],"class_list":["post-74249","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-blog","content-type-guide"],"acf":[],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.prosymmetry.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/74249","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.prosymmetry.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.prosymmetry.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.prosymmetry.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.prosymmetry.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=74249"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.prosymmetry.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/74249\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.prosymmetry.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/74262"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.prosymmetry.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=74249"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.prosymmetry.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=74249"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.prosymmetry.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=74249"},{"taxonomy":"use-case","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.prosymmetry.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/use-case?post=74249"},{"taxonomy":"content-type","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.prosymmetry.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/content-type?post=74249"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}