It has two parts, with the first five steps, concentrating on which particular scenarios to work on, and the rest three steps towards the story, implications and indicators.

1. Focal Issue: identify what to focus on.
2. Key Factors: brainstorm about the various factors influencing the focal issue. There can be numerous obvious factors and further digging can discover the less obvious, hidden ones.
3. External Forces: there are always certain remote, unseen forces that operate on the focal issue, and can be geopolitical, economic, social or technological. This may result in 70 to 80 key factors/external forces.
4. Critical Uncertainties: by combining all forms of key factors by implementing a divergent process, the next step is to converge by allocating priority votes to the importance of each factor and the degree of uncertainty.
5. Scenario Logics: a decision is taken on which potential futures out of the curated list are to be developed into a detailed scenario.
6. Scenarios: the eligible (top trending) scenarios are then turned into a story by a single author.
7. Implications and Options: fact check and stress-test each of the scenarios is set up after a few weeks.
8. Early Indicators can be easily found in consumer behaviour or stock price fluctuation.

A strategy is always developed with a set of scenarios studied and selected. It requires common sense as well as experience.

Example: A strategy can be an aeroplane, and the scenarios can be the conditions under which it can fly, or which it can crash.