Description
Strategic foresight is an interdisciplinary field that uses a variety of tools and methods to explore how the future could evolve and what challenges and opportunities could emerge. Strategic foresight provides a solid foundation for policy analysis, strategy development and vision-building.
This course introduces participants to the foresight field and a core set of concepts and tools that have broad applicability. The course will help you see the issue as a system, identify the forces shaping it, explore the range of plausible futures, anticipate challenges and opportunities, and develop credible planning assumptions and strategies to cope with the uncertainties that lie ahead. Using the “learning-by-doing” approach, you will be able to share, explore, and test your understanding of how the world is changing and what it could mean for your organization. You will be exposed to a practical set of tools that are strategically useful in policy and decision-making.
Learning Outcomes
- Understand key concepts, processes, and basic terms in foresight.
- Use key foresight tools (inference, assumptions, domain map, scanning, change drivers, influence cascade mapping, system mapping, system-based scenarios, guided imaging and policy surprise diagrams).
- Understand how and when foresight can contribute to policy analysis and decision-making.
- Appreciate key considerations in preparing useful foresight.
Duration
12 hours
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