Futures & Foresight

Our Futures & Foresight course provides different perspectives on how to explore futures with a practical toolkit that helps you get started on making this essential design practice a part of your work.

Bringing together strategic foresight with speculative design, you learn how to amplify strategic planning by applying key methods and frameworks, in a format that’s been tried and tested with individuals and teams from a wide range of sectors.

This course also helps you engage with the structures, relationships and ways of interacting in complex future scenarios through speculative design methodologies including prototyping and storytelling.

Format

  • 1-day / 2-day in-person, or

  • 5x 0.5-days live online

  • Other formats, including hybrid, on request

Who’s it for?

This course helps individuals, teams and organisations explore futures from different perspectives to support decision-making and strategic planning.

It’s particularly useful for those:

  • Who work in strategic planning teams

  • Manage business transformation and organisational change

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The detail

Learning objectives

During this Futures & Foresight course you will learn how to anticipate and prepare for future scenarios through a systemic approach. From scoping a futures programme and engaging with key stakeholders to selecting appropriate tools and frameworks that enable you to analyse emergence and explore possible futures.

What’s covered

  • Introduction to futures and foresight

  • Project scoping

  • Stakeholder engagement

  • Horizon and Environmental Scanning

  • Verge framework

  • Futures Triangle

  • Pace Layers

  • Cross-impact analysis

  • Three horizons

  • Scenario development

  • Causal layered analysis

  • Backcasting

  • Visioning

  • Speculative design

  • The Thing from the Future

  • Prototyping

  • Storytelling

What’s included

  • Experienced coaching team (with years of insights across multiple sectors)

  • 1-hour online alignment session with your key stakeholders to finalise the content for your needs

  • 3× 1.5-hour post training online coaching sessions

  • Curated case studies, relevant to your organisation

  • Digital toolkit with all the tools used

  • Digital certificate for adding to your profile

Clients

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Contact us if you’d like to book a call to discuss your organisation or team’s learning needs. If you are looking for a training package which doesn’t fit your specific needs, we’re happy to create a fully bespoke L&D programme for you.