Strategic Foresight

Overview

Delivery method

Classroom

Virtual Classroom

Duration

15 hours

Audience

Employees

Other Government Department Employee

Description

This course introduces strategic foresight and how to contemplate future challenges and opportunities. We will explore a variety of tools/methods for thinking creatively about the future of technology, security, intelligence, geopolitics, and governance in Canada and abroad.

Learning Objectives

Upon completion of this course, participants will be able to:

• discuss various methods/approaches to explore emerging and future trends
• develop an understanding of how and when to use and engage several strategic foresight techniques, including: 
  • horizons scanning
  • influence diagram and cascades
  • futures wheel
  • system and domain mapping
  • scenario planning, and 
  • assumptions testing
• accurately apply relevant foresight approaches to specific scenario

Notes: This course is available to other government department employees on a cost-recovery basis.

For more information, please contact Learning-Apprentissage@international.gc.ca

Legacy course code: 00020226