"Scenario planning forces planners to wrestle with realistic, alternative pictures of the future in advance, and to think in terms of contingencies and alternative responses."

—Daniel Yergin,
The Perils of Prophecy,
1983

The clear winners in the future will be organizations that can take advantage of unexpected developments—turning potentially large risks into opportunity.

In today's very volatile business environment, only a few things are certain:

  • The future will entail marked departures from the past
  • Future trends will differ from your adopted strategic plan
  • Companies that prepare for alternative future outcomes and plan accordingly will reap handsome benefits and gain advantage over the competition

IHS Global Scenarios

IHS Global Scenarios will help our clients to identify future risks and uncertainties, and develop strategies to manage them. Thought leaders from IHS CERA, IHS Global Insight, IHS Jane's, IHS Herold, and IHS Fairplay will collaborate with our valued clients and selected external experts, to develop a series of scenarios that combine and integrate the knowledge and analytical capabilities across IHS.

Key features of IHS Global Scenarios :

  • Interactive workshops to identify the big questions facing businesses now and in the future and translate them into potential storylines of future global developments
  • Detailed reports that describe each scenario and its ramifications for the global business environment and for the development of key industries
  • Databank that provides rigorous quantitative analysis
  • Online community including discussion forums and IHS-hosted events

Customers can enroll solely in the Global Framework, or in one or more of our industry-focused scenarios, covering energy, automotive, and aerospace and defense. The IHS Scenarios team will provide an in-depth view on how geopolitics; technological change; and economic, demographic, social, and environmental trends could evolve through 2030.

Each industry scenario will provide clients with a qualitative and quantitative analysis of changes in the regulatory environment, investment climate, industry structure, market demand, and prices under a unique set of conditions. The scenarios for individual sectors will provide detailed insight on the implications for business under each of the Global Scenarios. This will enable you to

  • Use alternative paths to test your current strategy.
  • Know how to identify the key inflection points.
  • Understand how to adjust your plan under changing conditions.





The IHS Global Scenarios Initiative
is a joint effort by:

IHS CERA

IHS Global Insight

IHS Herold

IHS Jane's

Lloyd's Register-Fairplay