Tools and Techniques for Developing Strategic Foresight (PSM-012) Training Course

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…

5 daysClassroom or online

13Upcoming dates

6Cities

£2,750Fees from

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

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
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
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
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
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

Schedule

Dates and fees

13 upcoming dates in 6 cities. Fees are per delegate; bring colleagues and every seat is discounted. Every date can also be joined live online for £1,280.

All dates as PDF

December 2026

14DEC 14 - 18 Dec 2026Mon to Fri · 5 daysNext session

BarcelonaSpain · Classroom

£4,250per delegate2+ people: £3,400 each

January 2027

18JAN 18 - 22 Jan 2027Mon to Fri · 5 daysOur home city

LondonUnited Kingdom · Classroom

£2,750per delegate2+ people: £2,200 each

February 2027

15FEB 15 - 19 Feb 2027Mon to Fri · 5 days

GenevaSwitzerland · Classroom

£5,250per delegate2+ people: £4,200 each

March 2027

15MAR 15 - 19 Mar 2027Mon to Fri · 5 days

ViennaAustria · Classroom

£4,250per delegate2+ people: £3,400 each

April 2027

19APR 19 - 23 Apr 2027Mon to Fri · 5 days

BarcelonaSpain · Classroom

£3,850per delegate2+ people: £3,080 each

May 2027

17MAY 17 - 21 May 2027Mon to Fri · 5 days

ParisFrance · Classroom

£3,250per delegate2+ people: £2,600 each

June 2027

21JUN 21 - 25 Jun 2027Mon to Fri · 5 days

GenevaSwitzerland · Classroom

£5,250per delegate2+ people: £4,200 each

July 2027

19JUL 19 - 23 Jul 2027Mon to Fri · 5 days

BarcelonaSpain · Classroom

£3,850per delegate2+ people: £3,080 each

August 2027

16AUG 16 - 20 Aug 2027Mon to Fri · 5 daysOur home city

LondonUnited Kingdom · Classroom

£2,750per delegate2+ people: £2,200 each

September 2027

20SEP 20 - 24 Sep 2027Mon to Fri · 5 days

GenevaSwitzerland · Classroom

£5,250per delegate2+ people: £4,200 each

October 2027

18OCT 18 - 22 Oct 2027Mon to Fri · 5 days

Cape TownSouth Africa · Classroom

£4,250per delegate2+ people: £3,400 each

November 2027

15NOV 15 - 19 Nov 2027Mon to Fri · 5 days

BarcelonaSpain · Classroom

£3,850per delegate2+ people: £3,080 each

December 2027

20DEC 20 - 24 Dec 2027Mon to Fri · 5 days

ParisFrance · Classroom

£3,250per delegate2+ people: £2,600 each

Live online, on the same dates

Join the class in real time from your office or home: live sessions with the trainer, group discussion, course materials and a certificate of completion. Joining details are emailed before the course starts.

December 2026

14DEC 14 - 18 Dec 2026Mon to Fri · 5 daysNext session

Live onlineVirtual classroom · join from anywhere