ABSTRACT

Sensitivity Analysis is the construction and evaluation of the implication of ‘possible worlds’ where events depart significantly from current planning assumptions. As a lebenswelt pairing, the Sensitivity Analysis is an achieved concatenation of a structure of possible worlds and the portfolio of management actions to be displayed should that world eventuate. The design methods by which these worlds are constructed and the management actions shaped to address them are summarised. These methods are precisely those used to find the degree of fit between the structures of possible worlds and the portfolios of management actions.