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Scenario planning and the future of education
Exhibit 2: Scenarios for the future of education
The process of assessing uncertainties and overlaying pairs of uncertainties resulted in four rich scenarios (figure 2-1). Although the illustration represents only the highest level of abstraction, it is readily apparent that the characteristics of the four worlds will have very different implications on a number of levels. Proud Tower represents a world where corporate needs outweigh individual and even national needs and where workers strive to satisfy the needs of their employer; with a small set of employers dominant in any given region, seniority and a steady climb up the corporate ladder are paramount. That world contrasts with the severity of regional and ideological boundaries in Continental Drift where regional organizations dominate the economic landscape and where those organizations, and certainly their employees, are subservient to the ideological pressures of the host country.
