Strategic Planning and Foresight: Learning from and Managing for the Future

This course considers the nature of the future, and the extent to which strategy, planning and forecasting can be used at individual and organisational levels. It looks at future strategies, visioning and the application of imagination which allow us to learn from the future.

Those who have earned this credential have learned about:
- The fundamental principles of strategic planning.
- Developing strategic foresight.
- Volatility, uncertainty, complexity and ambiguity.
- Chaos, black swans, randomness, and weak signals.
- Risk, chance and luck.
- Mapping the system.
- Futures strategies
- Visioning.
- Scenarios.
- The neuroscience of imagination and daydreaming.
- Learning from the future.
- Invention, innovation and creativity.
- Environmental scanning.
- Forecasting and back-casting.