Futures Thinking and Strategic Foresight
Learn how to actively shape your organisation’s future by identifying new strategic options and business models. This 2-day masterclass challenges your mindset about the future through strategic foresight thinking. You will learn to find creative ways of adapting to or mitigating the impact of less desirable future events and unlock your ability to create pathways for preferable futures.
Discounts available for this masterclass
For whom?
This masterclass is specifically aimed at professionals who work as manager, project manager, innovation or brand manager.
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Jannice Daha LLM
Manager Executive Education
E: executive-education@uva.nl
T: +31 (0)6 4834 9056
The emphasis on inclusivity, collaboration, and critical thinking created an environment where personal growth and meaningful connections among participants and lecturers flourished, making my time there truly enriching.Kathrin Spendl, Associate Director Innovation & Digitalisation at BayernLB Read Kathrin's full review
Learn to actively shape the future
Balanced mix of theory and practice
Expand your business network
What will you learn?
At the end of the masterclass you will:
- understand the basics of strategic foresight.
- learn why and how individuals and organisations (can) engage in it.
- learn how strategic foresight thinking can be cultivated in yourself and others.
- get an overview of different approaches to strategic foresight and the techniques that are available.
- be able to judge the value of strategic foresight for your work and career – be it to support decision-making or to facilitate innovation.
An insightful and interactive workshop, which greatly helped me to better understand the core concepts and benefits of Futures Thinking and Strategic Foresight, as well as how to best apply them in my work environment.Brendan Kilpatrick - Senior Public Policy Advisor
Teaching staff
Professor Siri Boe-Lillegraven teaches strategic management. Her expertise lies within the microfoundations of strategy, including the impact of strategic foresight on how practitioners think and choose.
Professor Markus Paukku teaches international strategy, ethics and sustainability. His interests include the emergence of novel business models, the innovation of strategy, and the study of outlier organisations.
The course helps to step back again and to think outside the immediate constraints of daily routine scenario thinking and brings broader perspective.Robin Tromp - Asset Manager
Fees
Fees vary depending on when you sign up.
Winter 2024
| Tuition* | Application deadline | Start date | |
| Early bird fee | €1,950 | 1 October 2024 | 11 December 2024 |
| Standard fee | €2,290 | 10 December 2024 | 11 December 2024 |
* The fee is VAT-exempt.
Alumni get a 10% discount
UvA Alumni receive a 10% discount on the standard fee. Please note that this discount cannot be combined with the early bird discount.
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An excellent masterclass to understand the mindset behind future-thinking, to get an overview of the tools to imagine the future better, and to build a bridge from the future context to new opportunities. I am looking forward to using these tools to take our clients' innovation strategies to the next level.Maryna Kuzminska - Science and Technology Analyst at Creax