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EDHEC Business School

Building Strategic Foresight Capabilities

Today, organizations find themselves dealing with an increasing amount of uncertainty. They are often ill-equipped at responding to disruptive change and find themselves blindsided by ‘unexpected’ landslides in their ecosystems. In order to hold their ground, they need to upgrade their capabilities, become more agile in adapting to change and drive firm-level, society-level and industry-level change proactively. This course introduces you to strategic foresight, its main methods and tools and their application in public and private organisations. Foresight allows organisations to get ahead of the curve, pre-emptively catch trends, define more effective and robust policies and drive positive futures. You will also learn how foresight is an inclusive way of preparing for the future, how to involve a wide set of stakeholders, overcome silo thinking and leverage collective intelligence to advance the status quo. The course is built on over 15 years of benchmarking among leading organisations and leverages on the collective experience of three lecturers, who introduced foresight, strategy, innovation and design thinking to public organisation and in leading private sector companies. After completing this course, you will understand the need for strategic foresight, as well as how and where it is used, which benefits it yields and why leading organisations systematically invest in staying on top of the future.

Status: Systems Thinking
Status: Creativity
IntermediateCourse10 hours

Featured reviews

CM

5.0Reviewed Dec 8, 2023

It is a very well-conceived course, compact, and yet with all it needs to take you right away into building your scenarios and integrating them into your strategic documents.

MI

5.0Reviewed Sep 26, 2023

An interesting course that is well structured with a good mix of videos, readings, and exercises.

MM

5.0Reviewed Oct 2, 2023

I really appreciated the course! The format enables us to learn at our own pace while keeping it engaging through the mini quiz within the videos, for example. The subject is very interesting.

AS

5.0Reviewed Oct 4, 2023

The professors were very descriptive in their lectures and maintained a clear flow between each week. Additionally, the lectures had images that helped me better understand the teachings visually

JB

5.0Reviewed Feb 1, 2024

Very interesting and detailed course. Highly recommended for professionals in strategic planning.

MM

5.0Reviewed Sep 30, 2023

Introduced and allows to practice a future-oriented thinking using relevant techniques. Perfect for everyone in the fast-paced world.

AA

4.0Reviewed Dec 18, 2024

Very impressive course content. I recommend this online course to anyone starting out in Strategic thinking and Foresight endeavors.

UT

5.0Reviewed Nov 5, 2024

I really like this course based on strategic foresight, I learnt new models and ways to approach a business case and may be able to apply them in real work life.

ME

5.0Reviewed Oct 2, 2023

This course was very interesting and a great format to deep dive into strategic foresight. The content mixing both videos and reading helps us to learn.

IP

5.0Reviewed Mar 28, 2024

Our instructors really made an effort to combine readings, videos and other articles to provide us with the most information regarding tools of strategic foresight.

WM

5.0Reviewed Jul 17, 2024

Provided an excellent view on Strategic Foresight Capabilities that helped me to personally overcome learned biases and explore the concept of multiple futures.

GR

5.0Reviewed Jun 29, 2023

Thought-provoking yet practical and enjoyable course on mapping possible futures and designing optimal strategies - both on a corporate and a personal level. Highly recommended!

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