An intensive professional development training course on
Strategic Foresight and Scenario Planning
Anticipating Change and Building Resilient Strategies
Why Choose Strategic Foresight and Scenario Planning Training Course?
In today’s volatile, uncertain, complex, and ambiguous (VUCA) world, organizations must not only react to change but proactively anticipate it. Strategic foresight and scenario planning provide leaders, managers, and strategists with advanced methodologies to envision multiple future pathways, assess risks, and design robust strategies that withstand uncertainty.
This Strategic Foresight and Scenario Planning training course equips participants with the knowledge and tools to analyze emerging trends, leverage data-driven foresight, and construct alternative scenarios that guide better decision-making. By blending theory with practical applications, participants will gain a structured approach to anticipating disruption, identifying opportunities, and aligning organizational strategies with dynamic future landscapes.
Through interactive discussions, group simulations, and real-world case studies, attendees will learn how to transform foresight into action, design adaptive strategies, and strengthen organizational resilience.
What are the Goals?
By the end of this course, participants will be able to:
- Understand the principles and methodologies of strategic foresight
- Apply scenario planning techniques to anticipate multiple future outcomes
- Identify and analyze key drivers, signals, and megatrends affecting their sector
- Build resilience and adaptability into organizational strategy
- Integrate foresight practices into decision-making, risk management, and innovation
- Design action-oriented strategies that prepare organizations for disruption and uncertainty
The Course Content
- Understanding VUCA and its impact on strategy
- Principles and frameworks of strategic foresight
- Environmental scanning and trend analysis
- Identifying weak signals, wild cards, and emerging issues
- Case studies of foresight-driven organizations
- Mapping megatrends: demographic, technological, geopolitical, and environmental
- Tools for analyzing drivers of change (STEEP, PESTLE, Futures Wheel)
- Detecting disruptions and breakthrough innovations
- Linking foresight to risk assessment and opportunity management
- Practical exercise: building a trend radar
- Introduction to scenario planning models (Shell, GBN, 2x2 Matrix, etc.)
- Steps to construct alternative futures
- Crafting plausible, challenging, and divergent scenarios
- Stress-testing current strategies against future possibilities
- Workshop: Developing scenario narratives
- Translating foresight into actionable strategies
- Identifying robust strategic options under uncertainty
- Linking scenarios to innovation and business transformation
- Using foresight in policy-making and governance
- Group exercise: scenario-based decision-making
- Building a foresight culture and institutionalizing scenario planning
- Integrating foresight into strategic planning cycles
- Tools for monitoring signals and updating scenarios
- Leadership and communication skills for foresight-driven change
- Final group project: presenting a foresight & scenario plan for a real-world challenge
Certificate and Accreditation
- AZTech Certificate of Completion for delegates who attend and complete the training course
How Aztech Saudi Can Enhance Your Professional Career
At Aztech Saudi, we believe that professional development is the foundation of long-term career success. This training course is expertly designed to equip individuals with practical skills, forward-thinking strategies, and the confidence to navigate today’s dynamic work environments. Each course is delivered by subject matter specialists with extensive industry experience, ensuring that every learning experience is relevant, impactful, and aligned with real-world challenges. Whether you're looking to strengthen your technical expertise, enhance leadership abilities, or stay ahead of industry trends, Aztech Saudi provides the tools you need to elevate your performance and deliver measurable value to your organization.
Our training is more than just knowledge transfer—it’s a catalyst for career transformation. By participating in our courses, professionals gain a competitive advantage in their fields, improve their decision-making capabilities, and position themselves for new opportunities and leadership roles. We take pride in supporting individuals across various sectors and career stages, helping them unlock their full potential through high-quality, globally benchmarked learning experiences. With Aztech Saudi as your development partner, you’re not only investing in education—you're investing in a stronger, more successful future.
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