- To defend a decision.
- To guide or ensure a strategy.
- To support the planning and development of an operation.
- To describe and monitor a real-world event.
- To define warnings, references and performance indicators.
- To introduce management criteria.
- To detect a gap or suggest a necessity.
- To detect and manage a threat or an opportunity.
- To check the application and efficiency of procedures, programs and guidelines.
- To pose a choice.
- To protect and audit the organization’s assets.
- To define and identify scenarios and spheres.
- To monitor entities and players in the organization’s domain of interest
- To solve administration or staff problems.
- To define and describe a phenomenon.
- To improve performance of the units in an organization.
- To prove a hypothesis.
- To eliminate or show up topics or assumptions.
- To design action plans.
- To compare situations.
- To open up to new markets.
- To put forward plausible futures.
- To argue in legal proceedings.
- Etc.