Postgraduate Certificate in Futures Thinking and Strategic Foresight

Program Days:

Live Online via Zoom

  • October 25, 28, 30, 2025
  • November 4, 6, 8, 11, 13, 15, 18, 20, 22, 25, 27, 29, 2024
  • December 2, 4, 6, 9, 11,12, 2024
  • January 6, 8, 2025
  • 5:30 PM to 9:00 PM

Face-to-Face On campus

  • January 10, 2025
  • 8:30 AM to 5:00 PM

(GMT+08) on all dates

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PHP 85,990.00

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Program Overview

The world is changing at an unprecedented pace, driven by technological advancements, shifting demographics, and complex global challenges. Organizations and individuals grapple with uncertainty and ambiguity. They are constantly seeking ways to anticipate the future and make strategic decisions. Reactive, short-term thinking neglects the intergenerational impact of decisions and perpetuates systemic issues like poverty, inequality, and environmental degradation.

The Postgraduate Certificate in Futures Thinking and Strategic Foresight empowers professionals to shift from reactive to proactive and embrace a long-term perspective. This first-in-the-country program integrates futures thinking, strategic foresight, and systems thinking. It offers a robust understanding of complex systems by emphasizing scenario planning, trend analysis, and risk assessment. This enables participants to anticipate disruptions and capitalize on opportunities.

Through a combination of theoretical frameworks, practical tools, and real-world case studies, this program fosters critical thinking and strategic decision-making skills essential for navigating an ever-evolving landscape.

The program goes beyond mere prediction and embraces the pluralistic and heterogeneous nature of possible futures. It encourages participants to explore diverse perspectives and challenge conventional assumptions. By examining emerging technologies such as AI, robotics, and quantum computing, the program presents the potential impact on society, governance, and the economy of these megatrends. It further investigates the extensive consequences of social and environmental changes, such as climate change, urbanization, and resource scarcity.

More than just forecasting, this program ultimately cultivates foresight. Participants will emerge as strategic thinkers with a futurist mindset who understand the interconnectedness of political, economic, and social systems. They will be capable of anticipating disruptions, identifying opportunities, and making informed decisions that address societal problems from a long-term perspective.

 

 

 

Program Objectives
  • Conduct Scenario Planning: Effectively anticipate, visualize, and strategically respond to different future possibilities. Help organizations adapt to potential changes and uncertainties.
  • Develop Anticipation Skills: Cultivate the process of recognizing, preparing for, and managing potential future events or conditions. Use foresight to proactively address challenges and opportunities before they arise.
  • Recognize Weak Signals of Change: Detect subtle and early indicators of potential trends or changes in an environment. Identify their value for anticipating future developments.
  • Utilize Systems Mapping: Analyze complex scenarios through systems mapping, identify potential leverage points, and make informed strategic decisions.
  • Anticipatory Action Learning: An engagement-driven process of inquiring into the nature of change, investigating the need for it, and creating actionable steps to realize desired futures.
What You Will Learn
  • Futures Thinking and Strategic Foresight Fundamentals
  • Assumption-based Planning and the Futures Triangle
  • Driving Forces of Change and Futures Wheel Analysis
  • Anticipating for Emergence, Randomness and Gaming Foresight
  • Anticipatory Leadership and Governance
  • Systems Thinking in Strategic Foresight
  • The Engaged Foresight Framework and the Generic Foresight Process
  • Emerging Issues Analysis and Wicked Problems
  • Alternative Futures and the Causal Layered Analysis
  • Visioning and Backcasting
  • Strategic Foresight Application
  • Foresight in Technology and Innovation

LEARNING CONTENT

DAY 1: Introduction to Futures Thinking and Strategic Foresight
DAY 2: History and Evolution of Futures Thinking and Strategic Foresight
DAY 3: Key Concepts and Terminologies
DAY 4: The Foresight Process
DAY 5: Foresight Frameworks and Models
DAY 6: Environmental Scanning Techniques
DAY 7: Trend and Emerging Trend Analysis
DAY 8: Scenario Planning and Forecasting
DAY 9: Building Scenarios
DAY 10: Scenario Analysis and Implications
DAY 11: Futures Thinking Methods and Techniques
DAY 12: Visioning and Backcasting
DAY 13: Systems Thinking in Foresight
DAY 14: Risk and Uncertainty in Foresight
DAY 15: Integrating Foresight with Strategic Planning
DAY 16: Decision-Making Under Certainty
DAY 17: Communicating Foresight Insights
DAY 18: Monitoring and Evaluation of Foresight Activities
DAY 19: Foresight in Policy Making
DAY 20: Foresight in Innovation
DAY 21: Ethical Considerations in Foresight
DAY 22: Global and Cultural Perspectives in Foresight
DAY 23: Technology and Foresight
DAY 24: Capstone Project Preparation
DAY 25: Capstone Project Presentation

Key Benefits

Systems Thinking and Holistic Understanding: Develop a futurist mindset that enhances the ability to anticipate trends, identify opportunities, and
navigate change. Make informed decisions and lead organizations towards a sustainable future.

Operational Excellence: Gain a deep understanding of complex systems and their interconnectedness to reveal hidden patterns, potential risks, and untapped opportunities for growth and innovation.

Strategic Advantage: Learn to look beyond the immediate challenges and dive into the underlying systems, worldviews, and mental models that influence change. Strengthen strategic thinking competency to become a more effective leader.

Who Should Attend

This program benefits foresight practitioners, policy analysts, decision-makers, urban planners, sustainability experts, business strategists, innovators, researchers, academics, and others seeking to enhance their strategic foresight. Practitioners and managers involved in strategy and planning, and CEOs of small and medium enterprises will also find this program advantageous.