Strategic work planning with Workfront scenario planner.
Adobe Workfront enhances scenario-based planning.
Scenario planning is a strategic tool that enables enterprises to navigate volatility and build long-term resilience. Adobe Workfront scenario planner provides a powerful solution for organisations seeking to implement continuous planning practices and accelerate execution.
What is scenario planning?
Industry use cases
- Energy: Shell identified a need to anticipate future scenarios as the company struggled to expand production during the 1973 oil embargo (Source). Shell introduced unified planning machinery — a computerized forecasting model — that estimated oil consumption growth. (Source: Wilkinson, A., & Kupers, R. (2013). Living in the futures. Harvard business review, 91(5), 118-127.)
- Automotive: Scenario planning has predicted technological advancements such as the growing popularity of electric vehicles. Many automakers such as Audi, BMW, Chevrolet and Ford have expanded their product offerings to provide electric vehicles in addition to gas-fuelled automobiles.
- Retail: Planning for multiple scenarios helps predict changing fashion trends year to year.
Scenario planning versus work planning.
Both scenario planning and work planning are strategic imperatives for enterprises seeking long-term success. Scenario planning helps organisations forecast potential business impacts while work planning provides a framework to adapting strategic execution based on real-time data. Work planning is primarily focused on executing tasks tied to specific business goals.
Adobe Workfront scenario planner.
Workfront scenario planner helps businesses create enterprise-level work plans that outline overall strategic results or outcomes. With the Workfront scenario planner, organisations can do the following:
- Produce an effective process that visualises organisation-level work plans.
- Optimise resource allocation to maximise utilisation and minimise resource overuse.
- Predict potential resource conflicts to inform decisions about hiring new employees, aligning budgets with enterprise-level work plans or adjusting work plan priorities.
- Create alternative scenarios for a single plan that identifies differences and evaluates the effectiveness of each scenario.
How to access the Adobe Workfront scenario planner.
FAQs
- Go to Scenario Planner via the Workfront main menu.
- Click “New plan”, then add: Plan name, Start date, Duration.
- Choose timeline view: Month, Quarter or Year.
- Click the People icon to: Add job roles, number of people and view hourly rates.
- Click the Dollar icon to: Enter yearly budgets and adjust monthly allocations if needed.
- Click Save - your plan is now created.
(Source: Adobe)
- Define your objective.
- Analyse potential outcomes.
- Identify influencing factors.
- Assess conditions, assumptions and probabilities.
- Evaluate scenario impact.
- Develop early indicators.
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