Future scenarios for Waterschap Rivierenland

Together with Waterschap Rivierenland (Rivierenland Water Board), we developed future scenarios for the Maintenance and Operations and Technical Installations departments. Pictures of possible futures in which these departments will have to do their work. These scenarios yielded valuable insights and inspiration around various themes the Water Board wants to work on in the coming years to prepare for these futures and to implement the water board's new organisational view. Valuable in itself, so that staff speak the same "language of the future", but the key question is: how do you translate these future scenarios into concrete actions that can be included in the departments' plans?

To make this step we facilitated in-depth sessions on various themes that form important challenges given the future scenarios. To become concrete quickly, we used so-called "logic trees" and the OGSM method during these theme deep-dives. This developed the main themes from the future scenarios further and clearly mapped their impact on staff, machines, equipment, the organisation and partners.

An important starting point was that the themes and their actions had to be concrete and easy to communicate, so that they could be firmly embedded in the organisation. That is why we translated the results of the theme deep-dives into clear OGSM formats and visual "story maps", so all staff can be taken along.