To equip leaders and strategists with the practical tools and structured methodologies to identify emerging threats, build alternative future scenarios, and design strategies that are robust to uncertainty:

• Corporate Strategists and Strategic Planning Leads.
• Innovation and R&D Executives.
• Risk Management and Business Continuity Professionals.
• C-Suite Executives responsible for long-term vision.
• Business Intelligence and Market Research Analysts.
• Consultants specializing in future-proofing business models.

• Intensive workshop on developing scenarios for a hypothetical organization.
• Group exercise on environmental scanning and identifying weak signals.
• Case studies of companies that successfully anticipated major shifts (and those that failed).
• Structured debate on testing and adjusting a current strategy using scenarios.
• Templates for horizon scanning and scenario documentation.

Unit 1: Foundations of Strategic Foresight

• Differentiating between trends, uncertainties, and wildcards (shocks).
• Techniques for systematic environmental scanning and horizon plotting.
• Methods for identifying "weak signals" that hint at future disruption.
• Categorizing driving forces: Social, Technological, Economic, Environmental, Political (STEEP).

• Moving from prediction to anticipating possibilities and managing preparedness.
• Foresight as a tool for strategic alignment and organizational learning.
• Identifying the key strategic questions that scenario planning must address.

Unit 2: The Scenario Planning Process

• Identifying the two critical, highly uncertain, and independent driving forces.
• Defining the axes of the scenario matrix and developing the four quadrants.
• Developing rich, narrative descriptions for each future scenario.
• Ensuring the scenarios are plausible, relevant, and challenging to current thinking.

• Analyzing the potential impact of each scenario on the organization's current strategy.
• Identifying key leading indicators (signposts) to watch for.
• Brainstorming strategic options and responses for each scenario.

Unit 3: Designing Robust Strategies

• Using scenarios to stress-test the assumptions underlying the core strategy.
• Defining "Robust Strategies" that perform adequately across all scenarios.
• Identifying "Hedge Strategies" for worst-case, low-probability, high-impact scenarios.
• Developing "No Regret Moves" that are beneficial regardless of the future.

• Designing adaptive strategies that can be quickly adjusted as the future unfolds.
• The concept of "Strategic Options" and valuing flexibility.
• Resource allocation techniques that support staged, flexible investment.

Unit 4: Embedding Foresight in the Organization

• Structuring a permanent foresight capability (Foresight Team/Council).
• Integrating foresight insights into the annual strategic planning cycle.
• Communicating scenario insights effectively to the Board and executive team.
• Overcoming cultural resistance to thinking beyond the known future.

• Using scenarios to identify future customer needs and white space opportunities.
• Fueling the innovation pipeline with strategic foresight insights.
• Developing R&D roadmaps based on potential future technology trajectories.

Unit 5: Advanced Futures Methods

• Understanding the relationship between potential, plausible, probable, and preferable futures.
• Introduction to Delphi and Cross-Impact Analysis for expert consensus.
• Ethical and social dimensions of long-term foresight.