Futures Thinking Fundamentals

ANZCHAM's Advanced Learning Academy's (ALA) course, "Futures Thinking Fundamentals" will guide you to develop a futurist mindset which is integral in coping with today's volatile, uncertain, chaotic, and ambiguous (VUCA) environment. This course will introduce you to a set of tools that will help you gain a more innovative point of view, a different perspective of how the world works, and equip you with skills on how you can better deal with disruption.

This timely course offering will strengthen your ability to analyze past events, identify signals, and develop future scenarios, which ultimately can help you become a better strategic thinker and leader during times of turbulence and uncertainty.

• Appreciate the role of Futures Thinking in organizations
• Understand and apply various Futures Thinking concepts and tools
• Improve their ability to analyze and interpret signals from the external environment
• Develop future scenarios for strategy development

• The role of Futures Thinking in organizations
• Understanding the Future
• Generic Foresight Process Framework
• Futures Triangle
• Look Back to Look Forward
• Signals identification and analysis
• Causal Layered Analysis
• Developing Future Scenarios
• Developing the Mindset of a Futurist
• Futures Thinking for strategy development

This program is intended for senior executives, emerging and high potential leaders involved in Strategy, Business Development, Product Development, Marketing, and Human Resources who wish to develop and strengthen their strategic thinking and innovative mindset.