Goal

Create and embed a Future strategy and culture in your organization

Identify and explore the driving forces that can make or break your organization in the future.

Skills and Tools to become a Chief Futurist Officer or Future Manager.

Program

— Future Thinking: assumptions, concepts and tools

— “Scanning, Sensing & Acting” - A FuturesFramework Mapping the main forces of change and emerging domains in the global and business environments.

— Explore trends and critical uncertainties and use these as inputs to identify new growth opportunities, foster strategic agility, and simultaneously improve their strategic planning processes.

— Design and implement processes that allow organizations to better understand the past, improve their decision-making in the present and embrace their preferred future.

— Presentation and Discussion of Case Studies (3M, Nestlé, Philips, Siemens, Mercedes, ...)

Goal

Understand and explore emergent and exponential technologies, its global challenges and opportunities.

A comprehensive overview of major innovations, and the implications they have on industries, society, and our future.

Program

— Exploring the Global Forces and Technological Landscape (Building a Scanning Dashboard)

— Technological Fields and Global Challenges Masterclasses explored and taughted by national and international experts:

— Artificial Intelligence / Augmented & Virtual Reality
— Networks & Computing Systems / Robotics
— Digital Biology & Biotech / Medicine & Neuroscience
— Nanotech & Digital Fabrication

Goal

Build and improve your understanding of scenario methodologies, approaches and processes.

Integrate Drivers of change, anticipate discontinuities and spot opportunities.

Identify critical uncertainties and build Strategic Scenarios.

Improve strategy making and review how your organization carries out scenario work

Analysis of impacts, threats and opportunities for the business.

Program

— Exploration of Scenarios methodologies and processes.

— What can we influence in the context of our organisation and what will most influence us/our success in the future?

— How to design and implement a fit-for-purpose Scenario Planning project

— Strategic Analysis of the Scenarios - Challenges and Opportunities

— Presentation and Discussion of Case Studies (Shell, Siemens, Cisco, IDEO, Mercedes, European Commission, ...)

Goal

Understand the value and impact of Design to business strategy, differentiation and competitive advantage.

Exploration of Design Thinking and Strategic Design tools to move from consumer and market insight to actionable solutions.

A future centered model

Program

— Designing human-led strategies and solutions by exploring the role of design and designers approach to problem solving.

—— How behavioural understanding can influence new products and services?

— How to create the conditions for a “design culture”?

— How to quickly prototype and test ideas?

— Learning from others - case studies- (Airbnb, Lowes innovation, Jeronimo Martins, etc…)