 Rethinking the 2×2 scenario method: Grid or frames?Rafael Ramirez and Angela Wilkinson Technological Forecasting and Social Change, 2014, vol. 86, issue C, 254-264 Abstract: Is a well-accepted method widely used by practitioners unproblematic? In this study, we suggest that this is not the case. The 2×2 matrix approach has been stated by researchers to be the ‘standard’ approach in scenario planning. However, as we show in this paper, interpretations of this method vary significantly, even within the same ‘scenario school’—in this case, the intuitive logics—plausibility-based scenario tradition. We explore both the highly attractive apparent simplicity of the method and its more problematic aspects by contrasting two distinct interpretations used by scenario planners. We articulate the advantages and drawbacks of the 2×2 matrix method according to these two different interpretations. The paper makes two contributions. First, in rendering methodological conundrums explicit, it clarifies choices scenario planners can now explicitly make when choosing a scenario building method. Second, by clarifying the choices that the method offers, we contribute to make it more rigorous, debunking some of the purported ease it advertises for the unwary. Keywords: Scenario planning; 2×2 matrix; deductive scenario method (search for similar items in EconPapers) Downloads: (external link) Related works: Export reference: BibTeX RIS (EndNote, ProCite, RefMan) HTML/Text Persistent link: https://EconPapers.repec.org/RePEc:eee:tefoso:v:86:y:2014:i:c:p:254-264 DOI: 10.1016/j.techfore.2013.10.020 Access Statistics for this article Technological Forecasting and Social Change is currently edited by Fred Phillips More articles in Technological Forecasting and Social Change from Elsevier |
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