Strategic Planning
The diploma aims to prepare a government leader who is forward-thinking, knowledgeable about global trends, and capable of anticipating opportunities and challenges.
The training diploma in Strategic Planning and Future Foresight.
The diploma aims to prepare a government leader who is forward-thinking, aware of global trends, able to foresee opportunities and challenges, analyze them, create scenarios, and understand the steps in detail for strategic planning. It focuses on developing strategic planning skills, setting policies and strategic programs, monitoring and controlling them, making strategic decisions, and preparing an innovative leader who motivates radical change.
- Managers of organizations and companies.
- Project managers.
- Project leaders.
- Project team members.
- Administrators, department manager and general managers in companies and factories.
- Anyone who wants to be a successful project leader.
- Principals of schools and educational institutions.
- Government and private sector employees.
- University graduates.
Knowledge and Human Development Authority Dubai
Canadian-American Board
Abu Dhabi Vocational Education and Training Center Certificate
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Level: Beginner
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Duration: 16 training hours + Foresight scenario assessment
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Last Update: 23/9/2024
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Code : 07-01
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Training Field: Management
Contents of the course
Strategic planning and future foresight are essential elements for ensuring sustainable success in any organization or field. Strategic planning allows for the identification of future goals and the creation of pathways to achieve them, while future foresight provides tools to anticipate trends and changes that may impact these goals. This course offers participants the fundamental concepts and tools of strategic planning and future foresight, along with practical applications to integrate future scenarios into planning strategies.
Program topics
- Introduction to Strategic Planning and Foresight
- Definition of Strategic Planning: An overview of the concept of strategic planning and its importance in achieving long-term goals.
- Foresight: An introduction to foresight as a tool to identify future trends and prepare for them.
- Integration of Strategic Planning with Foresight: How to integrate strategic thinking with foresight to ensure adaptability to future changes.
- Methodologies and Tools of Strategic Planning and Foresight
- Basic Methodologies of Strategic Planning: An overview of common methodologies such as SWOT analysis, Boston Matrix, etc.
- Foresight Tools: Providing tools used to anticipate and analyze the future, such as trend analysis, scenario development, and mathematical modeling.
- Scenario Thinking as a Tool for Foresight
- The Importance of Scenario Thinking: How scenario thinking helps prepare for unexpected future changes.
- Building Future Scenarios: Steps for developing various future scenarios and how to use them in strategic planning.
- New Future Terms
- Familiarizing with New Future Terms: Defining new terms like “Artificial Intelligence,” “Sustainability,” “Open Innovation,” and “Digital Transformation.”
- The Impact of These Terms on Foresight: How these concepts influence strategic thinking and future planning.
- Practical Steps to Build a Strategic Foresight Plan using the Future Windows Methodology
- The Future Windows Methodology: Explaining the concept of “Future Windows” and how to use it to build a comprehensive foresight plan.
- Practical Steps: Stages of developing a strategic plan using the Future Windows methodology, from information gathering and trend analysis to strategy implementation and evaluation.
- Effective Presentation of Future Scenarios
- Presenting Scenarios Effectively: Techniques for presenting future scenarios in an engaging and realistic way to stakeholders.
- Interacting with the Audience: Effective communication strategies during scenario presentations to achieve interaction and better understanding of the presented concepts.
Strategic planning and foresight are essential tools that help individuals and organizations adapt to the future and achieve sustainable success. This course equips you with the skills needed to build flexible strategies using future scenarios and trend analysis.
Join now to develop your strategic planning and foresight skills and be prepared to effectively address future challenges!
