[Free] Mastering Strategic Foresight: Building Long-Term Success
BUILDING LONG-TERM SUCCESS IN A CHANGING WORLD – Free Course
What you’ll learn
- Understand the core concepts and mindset of strategic foresight.
- Identify and analyze signals, trends, and drivers of change.
- Develop future scenarios using foresight tools and frameworks.
- Create actionable strategies through backcasting and visioning.
Requirements
- no prerequisites
Description
In a world of rapid change and uncertainty, traditional planning is no longer enough. This course equips you with the tools, mindset, and methods of strategic foresight to anticipate disruptions, explore future possibilities, and shape the outcomes you want. Through real-world case studies, interactive exercises, and a hands-on capstone project, you’ll learn to scan the horizon, build scenarios, and create actionable strategies that drive long-term impact. Whether you’re leading a government agency, business unit, or community initiative, this course will help you think beyond the now—and lead with confidence into the future.You’ll gain practical experience with powerful foresight tools like horizon scanning, trend analysis, scenario development, and backcasting. You’ll also explore the social, technological, economic, environmental, and political forces shaping our world—and how to respond strategically to them.
This course is ideal for professionals who want to move from reactive thinking to proactive leadership. You’ll develop a future-ready mindset, engage in collaborative foresight practices, and apply your learning to a challenge that matters to you.
By the end of the course, you’ll be able to design inclusive, adaptable, and resilient strategies that are grounded in insight—and built to thrive in complexity. The future is not something to predict. It’s something to shape—starting now. Author(s): Modafar Shaker
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