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No. 101

A Scenario-based Approach to
Strategic Planning
Tool Description –
360° Stakeholder Feedback
Torsten Wulf, Christian Brands, Philip Meißner

July 2010

An analysis conducted by the Center for Scenario Planning
at HHL – Leipzig Graduate School of Management
A Scenario-based Approach to Strategic Planning Tool Description - 360 Stakeholder Feedback
HHL-Arbeitspapier
                                                 HHL Working Paper
                                                           No. 101

A Scenario-based Approach to
Strategic Planning
Tool Description –
360° Stakeholder Feedback
Torsten Wulf, Christian Brands, Philip Meißner

 ISSN 1864-4562 (Online version)
  HHL – Leipzig Graduate School of Management
A Scenario-based Approach to Strategic Planning Tool Description - 360 Stakeholder Feedback
1. Introduction

In this paper we describe the second-stage of our six-step scenario-based approach to

strategic planning, the perception analysis. Having defined the scope and overall frame of

the scenario-based strategic planning project using the ‘Framing Checklist’ tool in the first

step, this part shall identify and challenge existing perceptions and mental models of all

participants involved in the planning process using the ‘360° Stakeholder Feedback’ tool

(Figure 1). The overall goal of the perception analysis and its ‘360° Stakeholder Feedback’

tool is to identify a comprehensive list of influencing factors that specify and shape future

developments. Of particular interest in this context are so-called ‘blind spots’ and’ weak

signals’. Before explaining the ‘360° Stakeholder Feedback’ tool itself we will examine what

influencing factors, blind spots and weak signals actually are and how these can help a

company to improve scenario-based strategic planning processes.

             Figure 1: Six-Step Scenario-based Approach to Strategic Planning

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A Scenario-based Approach to Strategic Planning Tool Description - 360 Stakeholder Feedback
1. Background Information on Existing Perceptions, Blind Spots and Weak
       Signals

Companies find it demanding to identify and include basic signals about future developments

and challenges in their existing, often static strategic planning processes. Even the

identification and processing of clearly visible future developments is often hindered by a

company’s existing mental models and perceptions1. This can for example be a competitor’s

public announcement of constructing a new factory and thus significantly increasing an

industry’s production capacity indicating a possible future price war. Hence blind spots can

be described as developments that a company knowingly or unknowingly oversees while

weak signals can be described as first indicators for future changes in the environment2.

A major task in any strategic planning process is thus to challenge existing perceptions and

to identify blind spots as well as weak signals in order to effectively and efficiently detect

future chances and risks at an early stage. Existing tools for identifying future changes that a

company might face, such as operative forecasting or strategic forecasting, are generally not

able to perform this task very well3.

Discontinuities do not suddenly develop. Every discontinuity has a certain historical

development and is often announced through previously described weak signals4. Weak

signals proclaim changes in proven business models or even economic principals. They are

triggered by human behavior. Humans have a basic need to communicate their intended

actions, insights and findings especially when these are applied to change existing

structures or systems. Other humans pick these insights up and continue to communicate

them to a wider public meaning they become weak signals5. There exists a wide range of

sources for identifying such human behavior and hence weak signals including the press,

books, databases, the internet, exhibitions, clients, suppliers, competitors, politicians etc.

1
  See Welsch, C. (2010), p. 30.
2
  See Wulf/Meissner/Stubner (2010), p. 17.
3
  See Krystek/Moldenhauer (2007), p. 105.
4
  See Ansoff, I. (1975), p. 23.
5
  See Krampe, G. (1985), p. 359.

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A Scenario-based Approach to Strategic Planning Tool Description - 360 Stakeholder Feedback
Strategic planning tools should therefore systematically and constantly scan internal as well

as external information looking for weak signals, blind spots and resulting discontinuities6.

Companies and their organizational systems thus require a methodological support for

challenging existing perceptions, identifying weak signals as well as blind spots and

channeling these in a structured manner to decision makers in order to be included in

strategic planning processes. We believe the ‘360° Stakeholder Feedback’ tool described in

the next section is capable of fulfilling this task.

      Description of the ‘360° Stakeholder Feedback’ Tool

The ‘360° Stakeholder Feedback’ tool gathers as well as manages weak signals and

identifies blind spots. The specific goals of the ‘360° Stakeholder Feedback’ tool are to

establish a comprehensive list of factors that potentially influence the future of a company,

evaluate these factors according to their potential performance impact and their degree of

uncertainty and benchmark perspectives of different stakeholder groups concerning these

influencing factors7. In general, the ‘360° Stakeholder Feedback’ tool comprises a two-step

survey process (Figure 2).

                           Figure 2: 360° Stakeholder Feedback Process

6
    See Liebl, F. (2005), p. 128.
7
    See Wulf/Meissner/Stubner (2010), p. 17.

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In a first step, survey participants are asked open questions concerning influence factors that

currently and in future will shape an industry’s environment. Additionally, participants are

asked how these influence factors can be measured using existing indicators (Figure 3). The

exact focus of the survey has been defined in step one ‘Definition of Scope’ of our six-step

scenario-based approach to strategic planning using the ‘Framing Checklist’ tool. The

questionnaire is structured based on six dimensions namely political, economic, societal,

technological, ecological and legal influence factors (PESTEL). Factors from the company’s

macro-environment are selected because they are very relevant for shaping the company’s

future development and usually cannot be influenced by the company itself. Upon

completion of the first step the influence factors of all respondents are clustered and

synthesized by the questionnaire-administrator according to common features, e.g. number

of citations of a specific influencing factor.

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Figure 3: Scenario Planning for European Airline Industry–Network Carriers 1st Round

                                       Questionnaire

In a second step, the grouped and synthesized influencing factors are again send out to the

survey participants in a closed questionnaire (Figure 4). This time, participants are asked to

rate each factor in terms of its performance impact and uncertainty on a scale from one (=

low/weak) to ten (= high/strong). Upon return of all questionnaires the administrator can

identify the most relevant factors having a high performance impact as well as a high degree

of uncertainty.

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Figure 4: Scenario Planning for European Airline Industry–Network Carriers 2nd Round

                                       Questionnaire

An important aspect in ensuring a high quality-level and thus success of the ‘360°

Stakeholder Feedback’ tool is the selection of relevant questionnaire respondents. Here the

questionnaire administrator should select a wide range of stakeholders actively operating in

an industry. Internal stakeholders should include a company’s key employees, e.g. the board

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of directors and upper management as well as the strategy team. External specialists such

as market experts, scenario specialists, think tanks, consultants and research institutes

should also be involved in the process as questionnaire respondents. Finally external

stakeholders, e.g. key customers, suppliers, financial institutions, shareholders and even

competitors should take part in the questionnaire. Involving a great variety of individuals in

the ‘360° Stakeholder Feedback’ tool is a challenging task and crucial in order to identify the

most relevant influencing factors. Nevertheless, as we will later describe this aspect does not

prolong the process, but adds significant value.

When searching for relevant survey respondents the administrator can use a great variety of

sources. Once top management support has been granted it is usually no problem to find

internal questionnaire candidates. These should hold a senior position meaning they have a

rough oversight of a company’s strategy and external influencing factors. Individuals

involved in pure day-to-day operational tasks are not ideal to answer the questionnaire due

to their narrow job focus.

External questionnaire candidates are more difficult to identify. External stakeholders such

as customers or suppliers can be contacted using existing company databases. Again the

focus should be on senior managers as questionnaire respondents. When looking for

external specialists the press, internet and personal contacts are good sources. From our

experience a company’s alumni and global business professional networks (e.g. XING or

Linkedin) are the best sources for contacting and selecting potential external questionnaire

participants. Once completed, it is advisable for companies to maintain a database of

potential questionnaire respondents for future scenario planning activities to ensure an

efficient application of the ‘360° Stakeholder Feedback’ tool.

There are different methods for completing the ‘360° Stakeholder Feedback’ questionnaire.

First, the survey can be conducted in a traditional paper format meaning participants receive

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a paper version of the questionnaires by post and return them upon completion. Second, the

same process can take place online using a standardized survey tool. When selecting a

survey method it is important to keep the scope of the scenario planning process, the time

frame and available resources in mind. If a company wishes to consult external experts the

paper or online format are the most suitable methods due to their scalability as well as

practicability. From experience we generally advise to use an online based questionnaire

method since it significantly speeds up the process of receiving answers from external

questionnaire respondents compared to the paper method. Questionnaire respondents can

easily be contacted by phone or email, receive a link to the online survey, which they can

subsequently answer where and when it is convenient. Additionally, the answers to the

second, closed questionnaire are automatically combined and evaluated when using an

online tool facilitating and speeding-up the process of identifying blind-spots described in the

next section.

  Figure 5: Spider Diagram European Airline Scenario – Impact: External vs. Internal View

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Figure 6: Spider Diagram European Airline Scenario – Uncertainty: External vs. Internal view

Combining the results of an external and internal questionnaire is a very important exercise

when trying to identify the earlier described ‘blind spots’. These will become visible by

comparing weak signals and influencing factors mentioned by survey participants with

different backgrounds. This task can for example be achieved using spider diagrams. Spider

diagrams quickly visualize blind spots. Precisely, blind spots are those factors which external

respondents consider to have a significantly higher impact or greater uncertainty than

internal respondents do (Figures 5 and 6). Based upon these blind spots highlighted through

a spider diagram one can thus continue the scenario-based strategic planning process

taking into account relevant influencing factors a company has so far neglected (Figure 7).

We recently conducted a ‘360° Stakeholder Feedback’ for the European Airline Industry with

a focus on Network Carriers8. In this process we selected industry specialists using the

previously described methods. Market experts from leading consulting firms, airlines and

research institutes took part in the process and produced an extensive list of 29 influence

factors ranging from the ‘shift of economic power to Asia’ to the ‘importance of European

low-cost carriers’. Several blind spots were identified, especially regarding the impact of a

8
 Network Carriers in this scenario are airlines operating a global route-network on a hub-and-spoke
basis such as e.g. Lufthansa, Air France or British Airways.

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potential future expansion of low-cost carriers and the impact of technological advances in

video conferencing. The 360° Stakeholder Feedback’ has revealed that European Network

Carriers will face future challenges they are currently not fully anticipating. With the support

of the tool they are now able to include these influence factors in their strategic planning

processes (Figures 5 and 6).

               Figure 7: Questionnaire Respondents and Blind Spot Analysis

The described process of combining internal with external results can be accelerated by

having an industry specific influence factor database. The Center for Scenario Planning is

currently in the process of building such a database for selected industries. The central

benefit of the database is that it will be no longer necessary to conduct the longer external

part of the ‘360° Stakeholder Feedback’ questionnaire since influencing factors as well as

their impact and uncertainty are already available. Only the internal questionnaire needs to

be conducted meaning the whole scenario-based strategic planning process will be even

less complex and time consuming.

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2. Evaluation

The main advantage of the ‘360° Stakeholder Feedback’ lies in its standardized, efficient

approach to identifying blind spots and weak signals. Standardized documentation means

that few resources are required for the already quick and straightforward process. One

person is needed to identify a significant number of relevant questionnaire respondents

within one working day. The standardized questionnaires are quickly sent out and the first

stage of the two-step process can be completed within a week. Conducting the synthesis

and grouping of influence factors as well as preparing and sending out the second

questionnaire takes another one-man working day. In total the whole process can in an ideal

case be completed within two weeks. During this time two working days are spent on

managing the survey process with the remaining time available for other tasks of the six-step

scenario-based approach to strategic planning. Hence the manpower and resources

required to apply the ‘360° Stakeholder Feedback’ are marginal. Additionally, our practical

experience in applying the tool shows that its group bias can be avoided and existing

perceptions overcome by using a wide range of questionnaire respondents.

Applying the tool also produced some manageable shortcomings. The interpretation and

grouping of influencing factors resulting from the first-round questionnaire can be subjective.

Additionally, there is a danger of selecting inappropriate questionnaire participants who are

not involved in a company’s strategic planning processes. These answers to a certain extent

distort the overall list of influencing factors. Finally given the complex nature of the tool one

has to bear in mind that a complete identification of all influencing factors might not be

possible. Nevertheless all the mentioned disadvantages can be limited by e.g. using several

questionnaire administrators for grouping the influence factors and thus reducing its

subjectivity or defining specific criteria for questionnaire respondents reducing the possibility

of selecting inappropriate ones.

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Concluding the overall outcome of the ‘360° Stakeholder Feedback’ process is an extensive,

evaluated list of factors that could have an impact on a company as well as a structured

identification of blind spots and weak signals. Nonetheless the process does not ensure an

identification of weak signals or blind spots. It might be possible that these do not develop at

all. From a company’s perspective this is a very positive signal since it indicates that its

strategic early warning systems seem to function well.

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     Shareholder-Value-Konzept, Managementanreize und Stock Option Plans

16   Fischer, Thomas M. (1998)
     Prozeßkostencontrolling – Gestaltungsoptionen in der öffentlichen
     Verwaltung

15   Hungenberg, Harald (1998)
     Kooperation und Konflikt aus Sicht der Unternehmensverfassung
14   Schwetzler, Bernhard; Darijtschuk, Niklas (1998)
     Unternehmensbewertung mit Hilfe der DCF-Methode – eine Anmerkung
     zum „Zirkularitätsproblem“

13   Hutzschenreuter, Thomas; Sonntag, Alexander (1998)
     Erklärungsansätze der Diversifikation von Unternehmen

12   Fischer, Thomas M. (1997)
     Koordination im Qualitätsmanagement – Analyse und Evaluation im Kontext der
     Transaktionskostentheorie

11   Schwetzler, Bernhard; Mahn, Stephan (1997)
     IPO´s: Optimale Preisstrategien für Emissionsbanken mit Hilfe von
     Anbot-Modellen

10   Hungenberg, Harald; Hutzschenreuter, Thomas; Wulf, Torsten (1997)
     Ressourcenorientierung und Organisation

9    Vilks, Arnis (1997)
     Knowledge of the Game, Rationality and Backwards Induction
     (Revised edition HHL Working Paper No. 25)

8    Kesting, Peter (1997)
     Visionen, Revolutionen und klassische Situationen – Schumpeters
     Theorie der wissenschaftlichen Entwicklung

7    Hungenberg, Harald; Hutzschenreuter, Thomas; Wulf, Torsten (1997)
     Investitionsmanagement in internationalen Konzernen
     - Lösungsansätze vor dem Hintergrund der Agency-Theorie

6    Hungenberg, Harald; Hutzschenreuter, Thomas (1997)
     Postreform - Umgestaltung des Post- und Telekommunikationssektors in
     Deutschland

5    Schwetzler, Bernhard (1996)
     Die Kapitalkosten von Rückstellungen zur Anwendung des Shareholder-
     Value-Konzeptes in Deutschland

4    Hungenberg, Harald (1996)
     Strategische Allianzen im Telekommunikationsmarkt

3    Vilks, Arnis (1996)
     Rationality of Choice and Rationality of Reasoning (rev. Edition, September 1996)

2    Schwetzler, Bernhard (1996)
     Verluste trotz steigender Kurse? - Probleme der Performancemessung
     bei Zinsänderungen

1    Meffert, Heribert (1996)
     Stand und Perspektiven des Umweltmanagement in der betriebswirtschaftlichen
     Forschung und Lehre
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