Strategic Foresight: Your Template for Future Preparedness

More and more innovative and forward-looking companies and institutions all over the world use Strategic Foresight to not only survive but thrive in this volatile, uncertain, complex and ambiguous (VUCA) world.

Participants of this course will have a good appreciation and understanding on how Futures Thinking & Corporate Foresight impacts today's organizations. In addition, participants will also learn key Corporate Foresight tools and concepts that will equip them with the vital knowledge and skills to explore a Futures topic relevant to their profession or organization.

Insights that gained from this 3-hour, 3-session course will give leaders to increase their

confidence to lead and innovate in today's era of uncertainty.

Course Objectives:

• Understand Futures Thinking and Strategic Foresight and how it is useful to today's organizations.
• Appreciate the importance of expanding the mind and the scout's mindset, analyze signals and drivers of trends.
• To enable participants to develop future scenarios and conduct scenario planning, and identify other applications in their work or area of interest.

Online Training Sessions: August 3, 5 & 10, 2021 at 2:00 pm to 5:00 pm (via Zoom Meeting)

Course Outline:

Pre-work Activities

• Get acquainted with collaboration tool (Mural)
• Identify their domain of interest (DOI) which is the topic of a future they want to explore in the course of the training
• Share expectations for the course

Day 1: Understanding Strategic Foresight (August 3, 2021 at 2:00 pm to 5:00 pm)

Topics:

• Strategic Foresight/Futures Thinking Overview
• The Generic Foresight Process
• Inputs to Foresight

Day 2: Scanning and Analysis (August 5, 2021 at 2:00 pm to 5:00 pm)

Topics:

• Signals Analysis
• Scenario Development

Day 3: Foresight in Action (August 10, 2021 at 2:00 pm to 5:00 pm)

Topics:

• Scenario Development
• Scenario Planning
• Foresight in Action