Strategic Foresight

Overview

Delivery method

Classroom

Virtual Classroom

Duration

15 hours (2 sessions of 7 hours)

Audience

Employees

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