We want to use AI to stress-test our 10-Year Target against different timelines of technological disruption. How do we run a Scenario Simulation that helps our leadership team determine if our long-term vision is robust or if we are building a business model that will be obsolete in five years?

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Tyler Smith · Accepted Answer

Using AI to stress-test your 10-Year Target is an excellent way to prevent strategic blind spots. As experts Erik Brynjolfsson and Andrew McAfee suggest, technology is moving faster than human organizations can adapt. You must run Scenario Simulations to ensure your long-term goals are realistic. To do this practically, do not let your leadership team get distracted by laptops during your strategic planning sessions. Instead, assign this preparation work to your Integrator before the meeting. Your Integrator should feed your V/TO® and your 10-Year Target into a private, secure AI model. Instruct the AI to act as a hostile competitor, a technological disruptor, or an economic analyst. Run the following simulations: - Ask the AI to predict how advancements in language models will automate your core service delivery over the next three, five, and ten years. - Ask it to simulate how your target market's buying behavior will change when they have access to free, internal AI alternatives. - Ask it to identify the exact vulnerabilities in your business model that a tech-enabled startup would exploit to put you out of business. Bring the outputs of these simulations as physical printouts to your annual planning session. Use these scenarios as raw data for your IDS® sessions. This keeps your leadership team focused on high-level strategy rather than playing with tools in the room, allowing you to build a resilient, future-proof V/TO®.