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.

Sticky notes plotted on a futures chart on a whiteboard

Bringing together strategic foresight with speculative design and system dynamics, 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 and LMS, 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.

Designed for people and teams

who are part of shaping strategic direction
who design, test or build products and services
who are involved in strategic planning
that manage business transformation and organisational change

The detail

Learning objectives

During this Futures & Foresight course you will learn how to anticipate and prepare for future scenarios through hands-on application on a real-life, complex challenge. 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 alignment
Horizon and Environmental Scanning
Verge framework
Futures Triangle
Three horizons
Scenario development
Causal layered analysis
Backcasting
Speculative design
The Thing from the Future
Prototyping

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

Book a free 30-minute exploration call

Clients

Department for Digital, Culture, Media & Sport

Enquire now

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.