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Strategic Planning and Foresight: Learning from and Managing for the Future 
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Strategic Planning and Foresight: Learning from and Managing for the Future
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Oxford University 
Overview

Gain a comprehensive overview of the strategic planning principles and concepts

Total fee

41,900

Mode of learning

Online

Course Level

UG Certificate

Strategic Planning and Foresight: Learning from and Managing for the Future
 at 
Oxford University 
Highlights

  • Earn a certificate of completion from Oxford university
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Strategic Planning and Foresight: Learning from and Managing for the Future
 at 
Oxford University 
Course details

Who should do this course?
  • For Organisations, strategists, researchers, managers, designers, architects and students
What are the course deliverables?
  • Examine the importance and limitations of strategic planning
  • Understand the difficulties of predicting the future in a turbulent world
  • Explore how short-term thinking has endangered the wealth and health of many countries
  • Take the long view to develop more enduring capability
  • Consider destiny and fate
  • Examine the distinctions between risk, chance and luc
  • Create the foundations for organisational strategic thinking
  • Explore futures strategies
  • Examine forecasting methods and tools
  • Undertake visioning strategies to see further into the darkness than other organisations
  • Ensure that planning is effective and efficient
  • Develop resilience capabilities to address unpredictable events
  • Examine the neurological basis of daydreaming
  • Encourage a culture of imagination, invention, innovation and creativity
  • The workshop will provide a toolbox of ideas and strategies which can be applied in the workplace
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  • The workshop considers the nature of the future, and the extent to which strategy, planning and forecasting can be used at individual and organisational levels
  • It looks at futures strategies, visioning and the application of imagination which allow us to learn from the future
  • The causes of these difficulties have been summarised as volatility, uncertainty, complexity and ambiguity (VUCA)

Strategic Planning and Foresight: Learning from and Managing for the Future
 at 
Oxford University 
Curriculum

The fundamental principles of strategic planning

Developing strategic foresight

Volatility, uncertainty, complexity and ambiguity

Chaos, black swans, randomness, and weak signals

Risk, chance and luck

Mapping the system

Futures strategies

Visioning

Scenarios

The neuroscience of imagination and daydreaming

Learning from the future

Invention, innovation and creativity

Environmental scanning

Forecasting and back-casting

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Strategic Planning and Foresight: Learning from and Managing for the Future
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Faculty details

Dominic Irvine
He has substantial experience facilitating groups, teams and conferences at the highest levels in organizations and the proven capability to help the most fractious groups arrive at a positive, action oriented future focused outcomes.
Dr John Wilson
John P. Wilson is an independent consultant and researcher with wide experience of change in both the academic and private sectors. He has worked as a consultant with a wide range of organisations and has spent two years working in Sweden, and four years in Saudi Arabia for an oil company.

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