Who will benefit from this programme?
- Individuals (executives, policy-makers, professionals, researchers) from large and small organisations in the public sector, private firms and corporations, and non-government organisations world-wide. who have decision making responsibilities to conduct or engage with scenario work Executives involved in, or have responsibility for functions such as strategic planning, environmental scanning, risk management, HR and talent, organizational development
- High potential leadership candidates who might become part of - or who are interested in leading - strategic planning teams, functional heads or management holding bottom line accountability for business operations
- Experienced consultants and coaches (10 years min)
- Experienced policy and research staff (within government jurisdictions, think tanks and not-for-profit agencies) interested in scenarios to engage with uncertainty
This programme is not suitable for recent graduates unless you have prior working experience of 5-10 years.
Benefits for you:
- Deeper understanding of the nature of the future, and its role in the present
- Clarifications on the purposes of scenario interventions, the methodological choices involved, and how they obtain better appreciation of one’s context. You will be better able to conduct scenario work yourself, and to supervise external consultants bought in to help you do this work.
- Carry out and debrief your live client, gaining the ability and confidence to carry out scenario planning competently;
- Understand and practice scenario tools, techniques, methods and engagement strategies that help you make wise choices - which you can pass on to your colleagues
- You will appreciate how to deploy scenario thinking as a counterpart to strategy, forecasting, risk-management, modelling, and other planning activities
- Better understanding the nature of uncertainty, and how it relates to different notions of time
- Up to date bibliography on scenario planning
Benefits for your organisation:
- An empowered, educated, and able, more innovative leader returning refreshed, to creatively drive your strategic thinking and practice
- An informed perspective on the variables of scenario planning
- The ability to more effectively identify key changes in the business or political environment that could impact on the effectiveness of strategic decisions
- Enhanced capability to make decisions in the context of irreducible uncertainty
- Perspectives on where to position scenario planning skills in the organisation, and how to relate these to other processes and structures
- 'Ready to use’ capacity to develop scenarios in-house, and/or buy scenario expertise from suppliers