20/20 Foresight: The science of future-proofing your business
Sony generates a new product every 20 minutes. Samsung scientists are currently generating over 120 patents per week. The world spins faster and faster. Change is constant, and becoming more and more disruptive and unpredictable. Agility is becoming the new critical success factor for any organisation. Being agile means being able to sense change before your competitors, and being able to respond faster and with a better solution.
This workshop is all about developing and honing those sense and respond skills. For the first time, the job of foresighting has been turned into a science. The workshop presents the findings of a 15 year, 40-person study of change and innovation and its impact on the strategy, behaviour and activities of an organisation. Through a host of real world case studies, delegates will learn the Science of Future-Proofing and how to best integrate it into and across their business.
Learning Sector: Innovation skills and practice
Suitability: Technical and domain specialists, Senior managers and leaders
How We Deliver:
This programme is delivered through a 2 day workshop.
Course structure:
- Why traditional future prediction ‘methods’ don’t work
- Foresight DNA I: It’s all about the S-Curve
- Calibrate yourself: Knowing how well we are able to assess answers to difficult questions
- How dynamic is my industry? Future-proofing your business starts with knowing how quickly it has been changing and how quickly it is likely to change in the future
- Inevitable surprises: Some events can’t be predicted; some can
- Understanding customers: Future-proofing the business depends on the directions customers take
- Scenario building: Constructing different possible futures
- Foresight DNA II: It’s all about revealing and resolving conflict
- Trend mapping
- Developing your foresight sensing radar: Sensing disruption before your competitors
- Agility: For the things we can’t predict, the future-proof company is the one best able to respond to change. This is the section of the workshop where we look at companies that have solved the robust-rapid-reaction response need
- Innovation capability maturity measurement: The 'future-proofedness' of your company depends on maturity of your change processes. In this section of the workshop we apply world’s best measurement tools to your business.
- Putting it all together – Top 5 things to do differently tomorrow morning
