Course Description

1-Day Futures Thinking for Strategy Development Course (Certificate)

Today, we’re living in the most turbulent times we’ve ever seen. As a business leader, you need to ask yourself: Do you comprehend the implications of all emerging trends on your business? Do you possess the knowledge to make informed decisions for long-term investments? If you’re unsure about such questions, it’s time to focus on building a strong innovation strategy that ensures your business remains adaptable, competitive, and prepared for sustained growth in today’s uncertain world.

Early Bird Price

2250 AED

Length

No preparation

Language

English

Standard Price

2750 AED

Involvement

1 day

Course Type

In person

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19

Riyadh

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About this course

Futures Thinking uses the exploration of emerging changes and trends to transform them in far and near future scenarios. This training will take a specific topic as a starting point and use a set of Futures Thinking tools like Horizon Scanning, Future Wheels and Future Scenarios to explore different possible futures. Design Thinking will be introduced as an integral element throughout the training to translate future trends into reality and tangible, actionable strategic initiatives.

3 reasons why you can’t afford to miss our ‘Futures Thinking for Strategy Development’ Training:

  1. Design your future: Acquire the skills to look beyond the hype and identify the relevant emerging trends that will shape your future.
  2. Take action today: Understand business priorities, make confident decisions today to ensure success tomorrow.
  3. Thrive in the future: Understand how to navigate future business environments effectively, where to adapt and where to lead.

What you'll learn

This course will help you to feel and understand how to turn trends into actionable strategies for innovation. You will gain hands-on practice using tools and approaches to come to future scenarios. Based upon these scenarios you will learn to develop strategies to deal with these different futures. As Design Thinking is at the core of everything we do it will be part of this Course as well however in a light touch way.

Framing

Team Dynamics Energizer
Masterclass Futures Thinking Coach
Challenge Introduction / Framing

Scanning

Trends and emerging changes
Exploring impact
Making it human

Forecasting

Jobs to be Done & Visioning
Ideation
Scenario Planning

Visioning

Strategic directions
Storytelling
Wrap-up & Reflection

Participant profile

This course is designed for:

Innovation Professionals...

…seeking how to explore different futures to enrich their innovation process

Strategic Thinkers and Doers...

…needing guidance to further develop their Futures Thinking muscle as part of a Strategy building effort

Executives or Decision Makers...

…wanting to understand how Futures Thinking can help them in enriching the Strategy building process

Meet your coaches

Our expert Facilitators have extensive experience in implementing approaches such as Design Thinking and Agile in organizations and will share their experience and practical examples during the course.

Tim Schuurman

Founder & MENA Expert

Co-owner of DT Academy, Tim is a visionary leader with deep expertise in innovation and incremental change. Holding an MBA and MSc in Business and Financial Management, he designs transformative concepts and empowers businesses across the MENA region.

Adela Cristea

Future Leadership Expert & Facilitator

Adela, a Senior Facilitator at DT Academy Eastern Europe, is a recognized Future Leadership Expert. She empowers teams by teaching leadership skills to navigate change. Adela’s innovative approach shapes dynamic, forward-thinking leaders.

Jeroen van der Weide

Partner & Senior Facilitator

Jeroen is a Partner & Senior Facilitator at DT Academy. He is a driving force when it comes to facilitating teams, designing creative processes, and brainstorm sessions. He holds an MSc in Creative Strategy.

Certificate

DesignThinkers is accredited by the Dutch Council for Training and Education (NRTO), underscoring our commitment to delivering high-quality education and training experiences globally. This accreditation is a testament to our unwavering commitment to delivering high-quality education and training experiences to our global community.

After successful completion of the course, participants are awarded a DesignThinkers Academy Certificate and you can celebrate your achievement. All tools and materials will be available after the course for personal use.

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Choose your session

Feb
19

Riyadh

1-Day Futures Thinking for Strategy Development Course (Certificate)
DATE
...

Request Incompany

Tailor-made coaching around your challenge