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Scenario Planning as a System, Not an Event
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Scenario Planning as a System, Not an Event

By Adam Siegel · Feb 27, 2026

Scenario planning has shaped corporate strategy and investment research for decades, but in most organizations it remains an episodic exercise that quickly ages as the world moves on. What changes when scenarios become living models, continuously tested against measurable drivers and updated probabilities, is not just the analysis but the quality and timing of the decisions that follow.

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There's No Driving With a Dead Engine:  The Importance of Project Sponsorship

By Vanessa Pineda · Oct 05, 2015

There's No Driving With a Dead Engine:  The Importance of Project Sponsorship

Have you ever been tasked with driving a project you’ve felt was going nowhere? Maybe you were a project manager or project owner, coordinating a team that was working on something you felt wasn’t gaining traction within the organization.

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The Simple Answer to Change Management

By Vanessa Pineda · Aug 16, 2015

The Simple Answer to Change Management

“How do we get people to do things?” It was only the first week at my new job here at Cultivate Labs when a client asked about how to increase participation in their prediction market. It’s the million-dollar question that undoubtedly comes up in every work project that requires any sort of change management effort... ever.

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