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“Backcasting -- working backward from a desired future outcome to determine what steps are needed -- is a validated strategic planning technique developed by Robinson (1990).”
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Mitchell, Russo & Pennington (1989), 'Back to the future: Temporal perspective in the explanation of events,' Journal of Behavioral Decision Makingpaywalled · manual check queued
Prospective hindsight -- imagining that an event has already occurred -- increases the ability to correctly identify reasons for future outcomes by 30%.
Robinson (2003), 'Backcasting -- a framework for strategic planning,' International Journal of Sustainable Development & World Ecologypaywalled · manual check queued
Robinson proposed a seven-step backcasting methodology: determining objectives, specifying goals/constraints/targets, describing the present system, specifying exogenous variables, scenario analysis, and impact analysis.
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Backcasting is a planning method that starts with defining a desirable future and then works backwards to identify policies and programs that will connect that specified future to the present.
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