Scenario modeling remains essential to investment committees, CFO-adjacent teams, and portfolio operators, yet it still lives disproportionately in spreadsheets disconnected from live performance data. That disconnect creates decision risk because assumptions, trade-offs, and stress tests are often evaluated outside the environment where actual results are generated and monitored. This article explains why scenario modeling still defaults to spreadsheets, what risks that creates, and what it would take to embed what-if analysis and trade-off modeling directly into the same environment where performance data lives.
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