Futures Thinking and Foresight Fundamentals
Small steps can eventually make a big impact. Our Bootcamp is designed as an inspiring introduction to the fundamentals of futures thinking and foresight, with the aim of cultivating a "futures mindset". This will better enable you to "use the future" to inform decisions made both today and tomorrow.
The bootcamp will provide you with:
-A robust introduction to the practices of futures thinking and foresight, as well as key concepts and approaches from the futures thinking and foresight toolbox.
-An increased consciousness of how our understanding of the future guides decisions today.
-A better awareness of how cognitive biases and path-dependent thinking can impair our ability to see beyond existing systems and thinking patterns.
-The opportunity to build knowledge and cultivate a "futures mindset" for your own futures thinking, which will lower the mental barriers for integrating futures thinking and foresight into your workflow, projects and organisational processes.
The Bootcamp can be facilitated live-online or in person as a three to four hour session or a full day. The session consists of a mixture of inspiring presentations, short exercises, and reflections - for up to 30 participants.
Prices starting from EUR 8.000
Bringing Futures Thinking and Foresight into Strategy
This programme unites futures thinking and foresight with strategy and dives deeper into the application of different tools and techniques for better strategy and policy anticipation. It is based on a case relevant to your team and takes participants through both a thorough foresight process and on how to transition from foresight outcomes to strategic and policy action.
The course will provide you with:
-Solid insights into the megatrends that shape the future and how they may affect your organisational environment.
-An introduction to the practice of strategic foresight and experience with applying practical tools from the futures thinking and foresight toolbox.
-The ability to recognise and make sense of trends and developments, as well as a structured process for understanding dynamics of change influencing your future organisational environment.'
-The ability to co-create alternative views on the future and frame robust alternative futures with decision-making relevance.
-The opportunity to build knowledge and cultivate a "futures mindset" for your own futures thinking.
-A deep understanding of how to always connect foresight to strategic purpose in order to operationalise foresight outcomes into actionable strategic and policy action-steps that inspire change.
The course is designed to be highly experiential and can be facilitated live-online with multiple three to four hour sessions, or in-person at our location in Copenhagen or at your organisation over the course of two to three days.
Prices starting from EUR 16.000
The Megatrends that will shape the world and our lives in years to come
This programme helps organisations with a comprehensive understanding of the fundamental forces of change known as global Megatrends. These are high-level drivers of change that shape long term development across societies. Megatrend analysis sits at the core of most strategic foresight work since many of the drivers that will shape development in the longer term will emerge from outside of the organisation's operational environment.
The bootcamp will provide you with:
-Solid insights into the Megatrends that shape the future and how they may affect your organisational environment.
-Confidence in applying Megatrend analysis in a structured manner to silence the distracting noise of the "here and now" to focus on longer term developments your organisation is confronting.
-A strong foundation to deepen and enhance how you and your organisation think over the long term about strategy and deceision-making.
-The opportunity to build knowledge and cultivate a "foresight mindset" for your own strategic thinking.
-The Bootcamp can be facilitated live-online or in person as a three to four hour session or a full day. The session consists of a mixture of inspiring presentations, short exercises, and reflections - for up to 30 participants.
Prices starting from 8.000 EUR
How to develop ‘innovation with impact’
It’s a truism that the majority of innovation activities – including areas such as product, service, policy, environmental, technological, and social innovation – are marked by failure.
In response, the Copenhagen Institute for Futures Studies believe in encouraging futures-driven innovation (FDI) as a catalyst for positive change that adds value.
Our approach is to illuminate innovation theory, note best-practice and leading-edge trends, but crucially adds to this by leveraging futures-thinking, combining all of these as a catalyst to develop innovation with impact.
That’s why CIFS helps our clients explore for potential future activity by highlighting friction and opportunity spaces for adaptation and growth c/o a view that solutions are best found in a spirit of being curious, imaginative, and collaborative.
Our training / courses on FDI include actionable views on anticipatory-leadership, how to build a ‘Now-Next-Why’ innovation culture, insights into leading-edge approaches and implementing futures-literacy. We illuminate how this can be input across different time-horizons, in the context of ‘possibilities and implications’.
End results are intended to be a clear understanding of the practical application of futures-thinking to progress your innovation plans towards a ‘desired future’.
The core modules covered in the course are:
· Thought-Leadership re: innovation & futures
· Anticipatory Leadership & building an Innovation Culture
· How to leverage trends, drivers of change & scenario planning
This course will provide you with:
· Understandings of futures-literacy and best-practice innovative thinking
· Views on rejuvenating organisational approaches to develop next-gen innovation
· A takeaway set of FDI slides and refreshed ‘applied knowledge’ for immediate activation
The programme is facilitated either as a full day session (or two days if involving internal client input e.g. coordinating with business announcements / launches) and is held at the client’s location. It combines a mixture of instruction and facilitated group activities, hence there’s plenty of opportunity for discussion to contextualise topics and embed learnings.
Meanwhile, here’s a CIFS article on the subject, published by the World Economic Forum: https://www.weforum.org/stories/authors/sean-pillot-de-chenecey
This training is run by Sean Pillot de Chenecey, our UK Partner, so please reach out to him if you want to know more about CIFS and FDI, via his email: spdec@cifs.dk
His expertise is based on years of ongoing innovation / futures experience for a range of leading global brands, alongside his University & Business School lecturing. Sean is also an international keynote speaker and best-selling author.
Prices starting from 8.000 EUR.
