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Scenario planning helps libraries turn today’s uncertainties into plausible futures that guide smarter strategic choices and reduce the risk of costly missteps.
Daniel W. Rasmus, Founder and Principal Analyst
Serious Insights LLC
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Prepare Your Library for Tomorrow’s Challenges
In an era of rapid technological change and shifting challenges to the need for, and definition of knowledge, how can a library’s strategy and future-casting remain relevant and impactful? Serious Insights scenario planning and strategy services help libraries navigate change rather than just dealing with its consequences.
Library Strategy in the Age of AI
- Strategy and Scenario Planning: Scenario planning workshops, strategic foresight sessions, and decision-testing engagements that help libraries explore multiple plausible futures, surface risks and opportunities early, and connect long-term uncertainty to near-term action.
- AI Strategy and Governance: Advisory services and workshops that help libraries evaluate AI opportunities, set practical priorities, establish governance, and align AI use with mission, policy, staff capabilities, and community trust.
- Technology Advisory: An advisory service that helps libraries assess platforms, collaboration tools, digital experience investments, workflow technologies, and emerging capabilities in the context of mission, operational reality, and long-term adaptability.
- Knowledge Management and Organizational Learning: Knowledge management assessments, strategy development, and knowledge-flow design work that help libraries capture expertise, improve collaboration, strengthen institutional memory, and support better decisions.
- Leadership Development and Staff Workshops: Keynotes, executive sessions, and team workshops focused on strategic thinking, navigating uncertainty, emerging technology, and the skills libraries need to adapt in changing social, economic, and policy environments.
- Research, Keynotes, and Advisory Support: Custom research briefings, keynote presentations, and tailored advisory engagements for libraries, consortia, and associations seeking informed guidance on the future of libraries, AI, collaboration, and organizational change.
Don’t let the future take you by surprise. Empower your organization to adapt and excel in a changing world.
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Learn More About Serious Insights Workshops
Agile Thinking Workshops.
Prepare for innovation workshops by giving your teams the mental models they need to engage with scenario planning effectively. Our workshops help make agile thinking a core competency.
The Agile Thinking Workshop Agenda
- An Introduction to Scenario Planning.
- Why scenarios matter to you.
- Confronting your assumptions.
- Putting a name on uncertainty.
- Explore what scenario planning can mean to your work.
- Becoming Agile: your personal plan for agile thinking.
Innovation Workshops
Apply your new agile thinking skills to your library strategy. Serious Insights intensive Innovation Workshops wind tunnel ideas against a robust set of plausible futures that build off our future of work scenarios, customized to your context.
The Innovation Workshop Process
- Define the problem, roadmap or ideas you want to explore.
- Expand the uncertainty list to include uncertainties related to the problem domain. (Serious Insights conducts research and documents the new uncertainties.)
- Day 1 workshop: Assign uncertainty values and incorporate the new uncertainties into the narratives, develop emergent personas and capture the implications for each scenario.
- Day 2 workshop: Conduct a competing needs exercise, describe key challenges and opportunities, overview of innovation, innovative approaches, brainstorming, value proposition development, and a list of strategic options.
“I am told by HR professionals all the time that agile thinking is a major goal for professional development. They also tell me that scenario planning is the best way they’ve seen to make agile thinking real.”
– Daniel W. Rasmus/Principal Analyst, Serious Insights