Strategic Foresight and Digital Fluency is an 8-hour online program that looks at factors such as consumer trends, market forces, advances in technology and changing expectations, and how they might shape future operating and innovation environments. The sessions will introduce a range of disruptive technologies as well as helping participants better think about how these technologies might threaten or positively impact their organization.
Top Reasons To Choose This Program
Understand the emerging technology landscape and how it will impact your organization
Adjust leadership styles to suit the new era and achieve organizational goals and objectives
Gain support and organizational buy-in for technology investments
About This Program
Future proof Your Organization: Next Level Leadership to Take You Into the Future
In a time when the future seems to be unfolding faster and more chaotically than ever before, it is possible to plan how you react to it. Strategic Foresight and Digital Fluency is an 8-hour online program over 4 days that looks at factors such as consumer trends, market forces, advances in technology and changing expectations, and how they might shape future operating and innovation environments.
Highly interactive and challenging, this training program will introduce practical tools and methods that help build more resilient organizations.
You’ll uncover how design thinking, market intelligence, competitive analysis and CX impact organizations.
The program introduces a range of disruptive technologies as well as helping participants think about how these technologies might threaten or positively impact their organization in the future.
Program Highlights
Hands-on experience with tools including:
Janus Cones
Uncertainty Maps
Insight Round-table Sessions
1:1 Coaching + Community of Practice Sessions
Guest keynote speaker
Fully virtual but highly interactive with 60%-70% of the time spent working in small groups on challenges and cases
The sessions will introduce a range of disruptive technologies as well as helping participants better think about how these technologies might threaten or positively impact their organization:
AI, machine learning, data analytics, and robotic process automation (RPA)
Blockchain and distributed ledger systems
Augmented or virtual reality (AR/VR)
The session is suitable for small-medium businesses, enterprise and government organizations that are looking at how technologies will impact future strategies, operations, and development.
The training will be delivered in 4 instructor-led online sessions over 4 days and will challenge participants to apply their learning directly to their own teams/organizations. Using a range of modern tools these sessions will create engagement and offer participants valuable peer-to-peer network building opportunities.
Participants Profile
Mid-level to Senior Leaders that are looking at how technologies will impact future strategies, operations and development
Leaders from organizations facing disruptions or the threat of disruption
Leaders looking to develop their team for the future
Leaders from organizations looking to disrupt and gain traction with emerging technology opportunities
Introduction to strategic foresight and futures thinking
Primer on machine learning, data analytics and RPA
Framing and scanning methods in strategic foresight
Interactive exercise: using Janus Cones
Peer insight round table #1 – uncovering threats and opportunities
Day 2 - Futures Design and Speculative Ideation
Guest keynote – the role of Speculative Design
How to design for uncertain futures
Primer on AI and deep learning
Ideation with future technologies
Round table insights discussion
Day 3 - Strategy & Backcasting (from Foresight Plans)
Foresight applied to strategic planning for teams, products or roadmaps
Backcasting
Primer on blockchain and distributed ledger systems
Introducing the foresight maturity model framework
Interactive exercise: the Uncertainties Map
Day 4 - Developing Organizational Capabilities
Leading organizational change and developing foresight capabilities
Interactive exercise: leveraging the Rapid Foresight Canvas
Primer on augmented and virtual reality
Challenge exercise – translating foresight into business planning (4-6 person breakout groups)
Peer round table on organization strengths and gaps; gaining leadership buy-in
Post-Workshop
Following the training workshops, participants will be welcome to facilitated peer-to-peer sessions that specifically focus on the challenges faced when going from training to implementation
Each session will be based on 3 small-group round-table discussions based on specific propositions or provocations
The objective of these sessions is to mobilize a peer-to-peer support network to help share best practices with respect to building a robust strategic foresight practice or centre of excellence with an organization, gaining leadership buy-in, and translating foresight into planning
