Arena: Navigating Complex Issues
Three Horizon Mapping – Strategic Staircasing
Introduction
Strategic Staircasing is a systemic method pioneered by Bruce McKenzie to develop organizational strategies using backcasting. Backcasting is a logical, sequential path to the future. How do we consider the choices we make now create a foundation to a desired future? Using the collective intelligence of the group, this method builds staircases to the future by focusing on relationships. Backcasting steps backwards from a big goal to analyze the foundation that makes it possible.