Applied Strategic Foresight (On-site)
Bringing Futures Thinking into Strategy
On-site CIFS course in Copenhagen, Denmark
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2450 EUR
+ 25% DK VAT
Courses are held from 9.00 to 17.00 local time on both days.
For Futures Partners and Futures Members, please use your provided
discount code or reach out to us via courses@cifs.dk
From our position as a world-leader in applying futures studies and foresight methodologies to specific societal and business challenges, the Copenhagen Institute for Futures Studies has designed a targeted applied strategic foresight course.
In the course, we equip participants with the foresight tools, practices and mindsets to tackle the complex business challenges of our time, identify emerging opportunities, and plan for alternative future scenarios.
The course is built around maximum engagement and actionable, hands-on learning, with the right blend between relevant theory and tangible strategic foresight tools for your professional work. Our course facilitators bring their knowledge and expertise from working daily with strategic foresight and futures-oriented issues.
Who is this for?
The course is for anyone who wants to get a head-start working strategically with the future and enhance their strategic thinking through futures thinking and foresight. It is a popular choice among business leaders, innovation managers, strategic planners, business developers, designers, researchers and even foresight practitioners.
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Learning Outcomes
Understanding Foresight Fundamentals: You will gain a solid foundation in futures thinking and foresight practices, including hands-on experience with key tools from the CIFS approach to applied strategic foresight.
Exploring Change and Building Futures Scenarios: You will gain the ability to make sense of change and uncertainty, and frame robust futures scenarios with strategic relevance – instead of only extrapolating current trends.
Cultivating a Futures Mindset: You will build confidence in futures thinking while gaining a deeper awareness of how our understanding of the future shapes decisions today, empowering you to see beyond existing systems and thinking patterns.
Connecting Foresight to Strategic Purpose: You will learn how to understand strategic implications of alternative futures and how to connect foresight to strategic purpose, enabling you to translate foresight outcomes into strategic action.
Building Community: The opportunity to build knowledge and community by networking and exchanging experiences and ideas with like-minded business professionals from other organisations and industries.
Course Content
The course guides participants through CIFS' approach to applied strategic foresight. The core modules covered in the course are:
Module 1 - Using the Future: Become familiar with how to “use the future” through strategic foresight, and why foresight as a capability to guide futures-informed strategic thinking has never been more important. This block provides a robust introduction to key concepts and approaches in the practices of futures thinking and foresight.
Module 2 - Exploring dynamics of change: Learn the process of exploring dynamics of change as a foundational practice of strategic foresight, by understanding what drives change and exploring for novel developments.
Module 3 - Understanding strategic uncertainty: Learn how to identify and make sense of the uncertainties that matter the most by understanding the degree of uncertainty surrounding impactful strategic issues.
Module 4 - Building futures scenarios: Learn how to frame and develop robust alternative futures scenarios with strategic relevance and discover alternative futures perspectives that inform and enhance decision-making.
Module 5 - Connecting foresight to strategic purpose: Learn how to understand the strategic implications of alternative futures and how to operationalize foresight outcomes into strategic action.
Format
The course takes place over two full days at our location in Copenhagen.
The course consists of a mixture of presentation and hands-on workshop activities facilitated by CIFS advisors/futurists with years of global experience. Throughout, we will contextualise and discuss what we have learned.
Seats are limited to secure close interaction and feedback in the group.
The Course Includes
- Live instruction and facilitation by CIFS advisors/futurists
- CIFS' strategic foresight toolkit
- Course material (provided prior to course) and all presenter slides
- LinkedIn course completion badge
- Complimentary 1-year personal CIFS Futures Membership (excl. shipping costs on FARSIGHT outside of Denmark)
- Networking opportunities with like-minded business professionals
- Light breakfast, lunch, and refreshments on course days
In case of cancellation, please read our course cancellation policy.
Please note that we charge Danish VAT. You may as a foreign organization, however, subsequently claim refund of the VAT from the tax authorities.