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Professional training course · PSM-012
Tools and Techniques for Developing Strategic Foresight
Strategic foresight helps organizations anticipate change, identify emerging opportunities, manage uncertainty, and prepare for future challenges. In a rapidly changing…
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Course overview
Why Attend
Strategic foresight helps organizations anticipate change, identify emerging opportunities, manage uncertainty, and prepare for future challenges. In a rapidly changing environment, leaders need practical tools to think ahead and make informed long-term decisions. This course equips participants with proven methods to scan trends, explore scenarios, and build future-ready strategies.
Course Methodology
This course uses an interactive and practical approach through presentations, case studies, group discussions, scenario exercises, trend analysis workshops, foresight tools, and real workplace examples.
Course Objectives
- Understand the principles of strategic foresight
- Identify trends, risks, and future opportunities
- Apply environmental scanning techniques
- Use scenario planning for decision-making
- Analyze uncertainty and possible futures
- Build future-focused strategies
- Improve strategic thinking and innovation
- Develop a practical foresight action plan
Target Audience
- Strategy Professionals
- Senior Managers
- Business Leaders
- Planning Managers
- Innovation Teams
- Government and Public Sector Professionals
- Anyone involved in long-term planning and decision-making
Target Competencies
- Strategic Thinking
- Trend Analysis
- Scenario Planning
- Risk Assessment
- Innovation Management
- Decision-Making
- Environmental Scanning
- Future Planning
Course outline
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1Day 1: Foundations of Futures Studies
- Foundations of futures studies
- History of future studies
- The discipline of futurology
- How companies and governments can use futurology
- Actors in the field
- Current theories and applications
- Introduction to futures thinking
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2Day 2: Futures Thinking and Alternative Futures
- Characteristics of a futurist perspective
- Change as the norm
- The acceleration of change
- Seeing events as interrelated
- Taking a holistic perspective in viewing change
- Accepting alternative futures
- Distinguishing between possible, probable, and preferable futures
- Importance of short, medium, and long-range planning
- Danger of leaving the future to chance
- Creating the future proactively
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3Day 3: Scenario Thinking and Foresight Tools
- Scenario thinking concepts
- Scenario approach methods
- Environmental scanning techniques
- Futures wheel applications
- Futures table methods
- Weak signals identification
- Black swans and wild cards
- Applying foresight tools in practice
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4Day 4: Systems Thinking and Leadership for the Future
- Systems thinking and strategic foresight
- Understanding complexity
- Systemic structure of dynamic and complex wholes
- Methodologies of systems thinking
- Visionary leadership and corporate foresight
- Connection between foresight and strategy process
- Governmental and regional foresight initiatives
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5Day 5: Managing Change and Sustainable Futures
- Managing for change
- Link between strategic management and futures research
- Using futures studies to effect change and transformation
- Role of leadership in planning for the future
- Using futures studies to manage and mitigate risk
- Changing futures through action
- Global challenges and sustainable futures
- Studying effects of globalization
- Concept of sustainability
Dates and fees
Questions
Frequently asked questions
How long is the Tools and Techniques for Developing Strategic Foresight course?
The course runs over 5 days of classroom training, usually Monday to Friday.
When is the next Tools and Techniques for Developing Strategic Foresight course?
The next public date is 14 - 18 Dec 2026 in Barcelona. There are 13 upcoming dates in total.
Where is this course held?
Upcoming sessions run in Barcelona, London, Geneva, Vienna, Paris, Cape Town.
How much does the course cost?
Fees start from £3,850 per delegate, depending on the city. Fees include tuition and course materials.
Do participants receive a certificate?
Yes. Delegates who complete the course receive a London Leadership Management Innovation certificate of completion.
Can this course be delivered in-house for our team?
Yes. LLMI can tailor and deliver this course privately for your organisation at your premises or in one of our training cities.
Course information last updated 14 November 2026.
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