Beyond Command and Control: Sense Making under Large World Uncertainty GUEST EDITOR

In order to take charge of discourses about the future, this article argues for the construction of robust, coherent visions that can be used both to communicate and impose our view upon others and to provide those with whom we are working with a clear basis from which to develop local strategy that remains consistent with our broader aims. To achieve this, an integrative approach to interaction analysis within a wider scenarioinformed strategic development context is proposed. The method is to use scenarios created though a conventional scenario development process to develop robust strategies for key stakeholders in a situation. These strategies are then allowed to interact, either through a role-play enactment or through co-operation/confrontation analysis. Stakeholders’ management of the dilemmas posed for them by the interaction amend their original strategies and these revised strategies are then refined through further cycles. The approach suggested here represents a first stage of development; it is concluded that later work should link the approach more firmly into network centered thinking. 2 The International C2 Journal | Vol 5, No 1