Futures Thinking Training Programs for Organisations

This programme unites futures thinking and foresight with strategy and dives deeper into the application of different tools and techniques for better strategy and policy anticipation. It is based on a case relevant to your team and takes participants through both a thorough foresight process and on how to transition from foresight outcomes to strategic and policy action.

The course is designed to be highly experiential and can be facilitated live-online with multiple three to four hour sessions, or in-person at our location in Copenhagen or at your organisation over the course of two to three days.

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Explore how AI is reshaping foresight, and how these insights can be turned into opportunity spaces, innovation directions, and decision-relevant options in organisational contexts.

‍The landscape of foresight and how we prepare for the future is being fundamentally reshaped as AI moves beyond mere efficiency gains to actively influencing how futures are perceived, imagined and constructed. It is changing not only our workflows but the core practice of foresight itself.

In a context of this larger reshuffle, the shift calls for new lenses to understand how AI is shaping foresight, and what this means for strategy and innovation. In this evolving practice we need to rethink the relevance, methods and role of futures work and futures-driven organisations in an AI-Augmented world.

Rather than focusing on “how to prompt” or technical tool training, this course uses real-world cases to explore how AI is reshaping the practise of foresight, but also innovation, organisational design and strategic decision-making. Now and the future. Together with participants, we identify which elements are transferable in their organisational context - and what this implies for redesigning their own AI-Augmented foresight processes.

The course is facilitated by CIFS Senior Futurists and AI experts Sofie Hvitved (Futurist | Director, Head of Media Futures & Innovation | Co-lead H3 AI Lab) and Bugge Holm Hansen (Director, Head of Tech Futures & Innovation | Co-lead H3 AI Lab).This is a structured space for exploration, dialogue and re-imagination focused on how AI is reshaping foresight practice and how foresight insights can be turned into opportunity spaces, innovation directions, and decision-relevant options in organisational contexts. The course is designed to support collective sensemaking and informed judgement, grounded in CIFS’ foresight expertise.

This can be delivered either in Copenhagen or at your organisation and is available in formats ranging from a half-day bootcamp to a two-day course.

‍Prices starting from 8.000 EUR

It’s a truism that the majority of innovation activities – including areas such as product, service, policy, environmental, technological, and social innovation – are marked by failure.

In response, the Copenhagen Institute for Futures Studies believe in encouraging futures-driven innovation (FDI) as a catalyst for positive change that adds value.

Our approach is to illuminate innovation theory, note best-practice and leading-edge trends, but crucially adds to this by leveraging futures-thinking, combining all of these as a catalyst to develop innovation with impact.

That’s why CIFS helps our clients explore for potential future activity by highlighting friction and opportunity spaces for adaptation and growth c/o a view that solutions are best found in a spirit of being curious, imaginative, and collaborative.

Our training courses on FDI include actionable views on anticipatory-leadership, how to build a ‘Now-Next-Why’ innovation culture, insights into leading-edge approaches and implementing futures-literacy. We illuminate how this can be input across different time-horizons, in the context of ‘possibilities and implications’.

End results are intended to be a clear understanding of the practical application of futures-thinking to progress your innovation plans towards a ‘desired future’.

The programme is facilitated either as a full day session (or two days if involving internal client input e.g. coordinating with business announcements and launches) and is held at the client’s location. It combines a mixture of instruction and facilitated group activities, hence there’s plenty of opportunity for discussion to contextualise topics and embed learnings.

This training is run by Sean Pillot de Chenecey, our UK Partner, so please reach out to him if you want to know more about CIFS and FDI, via his email: spdec@cifs.dk

‍His expertise is based on years of ongoing innovation and futures experience for a range of leading global brands, alongside his University & Business School lecturing. Sean is also an international keynote speaker and best-selling author.

Read more about the approach in this CIFS article published by World Economic Forum

‍Prices starting from 8.000 EUR