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Strategize like a Futurist

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Better navigate strategically in the world

Learn how to bring futures thinking and foresight into strategy. Empower yourself with tools, techniques, and mindset to better navigate strategically in a world where many factors come together in complex ways to create surprising futures. 

WHO IS THIS COURSE FOR?

This course is a popular choice for decision-makers, innovation managers, strategic planners, business developers, designers, and people who want to get a head-start working strategically with the future.

KEY LEARNING OUTCOMES
  • check Futures Thinking & Foresight
  • check Dynamics of Change
  • check Futures Mindset
  • check Decision-making
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About the course

About the course

Join Simon Fuglsang Østergaard, one of the course leaders, as he provides an overview of what you can expect and the course objectives.

What your weeks will look like

Topics, Frameworks, Methods & Tools that will be covered

Session 1 - Using The Future expand_more expand_less
  • Foundations for Success.
  • Principles for Strategic Foresight.
  • Immersing Yourself in Tomorrow.
Session 2 - Exploring Dynamics Of Change expand_more expand_less
  • Applied Strategic Foresight.
  • Megatrends that Shape our Future.
  • Study Case for topical strategic foresight.
Session 3 - Discovering Strategic Uncertainties expand_more expand_less
  • Understanding Uncertainty.
  • Lessons from Horizon Scanning.
  • Identifying strategic uncertainties and issues.
Session 4 - Building Futures Scenarios expand_more expand_less
  • Methods for Scenario Planning.
  • Build a Scenario Matrix.
  • Mental and cognitive biases in your environment.
Session 5 - Transitioning From Foresight To Strategy expand_more expand_less
  • Ways of Using The Future.
  • Fine-tuning scenarios.
  • Peer review.
Session 6 - Be Inspired To Inspire The Change expand_more expand_less
  • Learning Projects.
  • Formulating a case for change.
  • Role modelling and scaling change.
Frameworks, Methods & Tools expand_more expand_less
  • Futures & Foresight Naming & Vocabulary.
  • Megatrends Catalogue.
  • The Futures Triangle.
  • Applied Strategic Foresight.
  • Horizon Scanning.
  • Copenhagen Institute for Futures Studies’ Cases, Catalogues, Toolkits, Reports, Canvases, Templates, etc.
  • Peer-to-peer learning.
  • Individual reflection.

Learning Outcomes

By the time you finish this course you should have acquired the following knowledge and skills, which you’ll be able to use right away in your work, or add to your resumé:

Understanding and using futures to inform the present

Participants will learn the fundamentals of futures thinking and foresight, the importance of understanding future alternatives to guide strategic thinking and the role of cognitive biases and fallacies in distorting our futures thinking.

Exploring Change and Building Futures Scenarios

Participants will learn a structured process for understanding the dynamics of change and planning for alternative scenarios from interconnected factors and systemic relationships.

Transitioning from Foresight to Strategy

Participants will learn how alternative futures have strategic implications and transitioning these insights into futures-informed strategic decision-making. This also involves identifying and making sense of the uncertainties that matter the most in decision-making under uncertainty.

Futures mindset

These themes are designed to cultivate a futures mindset, enhancing awareness of how our understanding of the future guides our strategic decision-making in the present, and inspiring learners to operationalize their newfound strategic foresight skills and insights into their existing work, team, or organizational culture.

Meet your Course Leaders

Get to know the experts guiding your journey to success.

Simon

Simon Fuglsang Østergaard

Simon has been part of Copenhagen Institute for Futures Studies since 2016 and has led and participated in many advisory projects exploring long-term strategic implications through scenario planning, trend analysis, and strategic foresight broadly. He has worked with high-level national and international clients and stakeholders across business and society, helping organizations challenge outdated beliefs and misguided assumptions about the future, to enhance preparedness and strategic decision-making. On a day-to-day basis, Simon works intensively with exploring how shifts in technology, demographics and people’s behavior raise critical uncertainties for societies and businesses across the board. Simon brings his experience with working with strategic foresight and futures-oriented issues to our Applied Strategic Foresight course.

Anastasia

Anastasija Timoseva

Anastasija is a vibrant facilitator and learning program producer at Hyper Island, she thrives in engaging with diverse teams and stakeholders from varied backgrounds embodying a hands-on approach to the facilitation process and design. With a keen interest and experience in the Wind Power industry, showcasing her versatile expertise, she blends her analytical and creative skills beyond her facilitator role, as she is also an adept Project Manager.

Receive and Share Your Certificate

You’ll receive a Professional Certificate via the Accredible platform within 1-2 weeks after completing the course.

Certificates are configured for uploading and sharing on LinkedIn or downloading as PDF.

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What they say

Discover what our former students say about their experience.

Anne Verdaasdonk - Course participants

 “It was very hands on, with many tools you can immediately start applying in your workplace. I valued the opportunity to discuss day-to-day situations with the community. Having had the time to work with the learnings for a few months after I finished the course, both the learnings and tools are enabling better teamwork for our team.”


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Anne Verdaasdonk

Senior Digital Producer at Etcetera
Domenico Dargenio - Course participant

"I found the course to be highly experiential. I enjoyed the design of the journey, which was emotional and built on deep connections. It exceeded my expectations in every way, particularly as I didn’t know much about Hyper Island prior to joining. My experience helped to ‘validate’ the course/product for me and I was positively surprised."

 

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Domenico Dargenio

Consultant at Dardo Consulting
Nina Enroth - Course Participant

"Before taking the course I had been interested in the subject and studied bits and pieces here and there, so it was luxurious to be able to just enjoy the ride and suck in all the information. Most of what I learned I use at work daily. The course was an awesome experience for me."

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Nina Enroth

Account Director and Change Consultant at Ellun Kanat
Liam James - Course participant

"Each chapter of the course was crafted in a very purposeful way. Going into this with a growth mindset was key because it allowed me to be totally open to new ideas and approaches. Regardless of how much experience another course member had, there seemed to always be something to learn from each other."

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Liam James

Copywriter, Voice Over Artist & Storytelling Strategist

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