Here you can find details of the programs we offer.

What’s Coming? Trends Driving Your Industry over the Next 10 Years and How You Can Use Them Strategically

Next Program: 12 May 2011: Register Now

We all know that trends shape how we work and communicate today.  But what’s coming? What is driving the evolution of today’s trends?

Trends are patterns of similar events that seem to be moving in a particular direction. Trends are driven by more fundamental systemic shifts around technology, values, economics and sustainability. Understanding these drivers will allow you to prepare to respond to the changing shape of trends over time, and will provide your organisation with a long term context for its strategic decision making today. It’s about what you need to know BEFORE you write your strategic plan.

Building Creative Business Strategy: Intersections between design thinking and strategic foresight

Building effective strategy in today’s complex and uncertain environment is increasingly challenging. The global financial crisis showed us that the way we work today can be disrupted overnight – suddenly the future seems a lot less certain. To build robust strategy for your organisation in this environment, you have to change the way you think about the future and how you develop strategy and manage innovation.

Learning from the Future: Understanding Strategic Foresight – a hands on workshop

Learn how to apply strategic foresight in your organisation, whether you are a commercial, non-profit, education or government group. Understand and learn how to remove the barriers that constrain your thinking and limit your strategic options. We provide tools you can use within your organisation to generate ideas, understand implications of emerging trends, and explore new options.

Strategic Thinking: Beyond the Hype (Webinar)

This webinar explores the nature of strategic thinking – what it is, and what it isn’t. Going deeper than the hype about thinking strategically, we take a systems approach to think about how to expand mindsets and worldviews to enable more robust strategy to be developed.

Environmental Scanning (Webinar)

Environmental scanning provides the information needed to high quality strategic thinking. It is the first step in strategy development and needs to incorporate mainstream trends and events that we all know about, as well as emerging issues just beginning to surface at the periphery. This webinar provides an overview of the tools and ‘know how’ to start scanning in your organisation.