The future has never been more uncertain. Old industries are being swept aside by imaginative innovators. Millions of traditional jobs are being automated as millions of other new roles are being created for the first time. And all the while, environmental stresses like Covid-19 and climate change are driving the need to reimagine our relationship with our organizations, our communities, and the planet itself. 

Working with the same types of tools used by Accenture, Microsoft, Toyota and other leading global organizations, this active learning course will provide you with the frameworks needed to scan for signs of change, imagine future scenarios for your team, organization, industry, or community, and develop skills needed to become a more resilient and adaptive leader for a disruptive and changing world. 

The following courses comprise the Strategic Foresight Micro Credential

Strategic Foresight – Introduction

• Develop a better understanding of key forces of change that are disrupting our world and reassess your intuitions about these disruptive forces.
• Gain insights into how other industries are thinking about the future while having an opportunity to test your own ideas with a group of peers.
• Become a more confident, creative and strategic thinker about opportunities and risks that the future may hold.
• Acquire a robust set of tools that will allow you to lead your team, organization, community members, or clients through structured strategic foresight projects

Leading Change for Innovation and Impact

• Identify the strengths and developmental areas that are needed to build personal and organizational creativity and innovation capabilities.
• Adopt an innovation mindset by igniting people and teams to develop deeper capacities for being creative.
• Understand how managing for long-term innovation is different from managing for short-term productivity.
• Understand the profound impact that leaders have in establishing the climates and cultures needed to encourage and embed creativity and innovation across organizations.

Systems Thinking for a Changing World

• Become a more critical thinker about how different political, economic, social, technological, and environmental factors and behaviours interact to produce often surprising results.
• Understand how different archetypal patterns of change play out at the organizational, industry and societal levels.
• Challenge existing assumptions about what is impacting your organization by breaking away from restrictive linear thinking.
• Improve competitive positioning and organizational performance in a world that is becoming inherently more volatile, uncertain, complex and ambiguous.

Anticipant Organization

• Anticipate a range of potential opportunities, crises, and future scenarios that digital transformation could bring to your organization from both inside and outside your industry.
• Prepare for and rehearse future scenarios that can enhance organizational resilience.
• Develop high-performing collaborative teams comprised of anticipant humans and intelligent machines.
• Effectively harness human, digital and information resources to strengthen offensive competitiveness and defensive risk mitigation capabilities.

Technology Forecasting

• Develop knowledge and skills that will help you make better sense of how evolving and emerging technologies can disrupt and shape organizations, industries and societies.
• Learn new frameworks that can help you detect technological risks and opportunities for your organization.
• Use new tools to help make better technology investment, R&D or strategic partnering decisions.
• Develop greater future readiness for managing the ongoing convergence of technologies.

Course Dates:

Coming Fall 2024!