Futures Thinking and Strategy Development, Mt Eliza/Melbourne.
Futures Thinking and Strategy Development is centred on practical, applied learning. Residential course.
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Author Archive: Sohail Inayatullah
May 18, 2016
Futures Forum, Warlde Room, Perth Concert Hall, 5 St Georges Terrace, Perth
The environment in which we operate is constantly changing and it is essential that arts and culture organisations are pro-active and strategic when planning for the future.
In the Chamber’s second Professional Development offering for 2016, internationally renowned futurists Sohail Inayatullah and Anita Sykes-Kelleher have developed a one day event specifically for leaders and managers working in the WA arts and cultural sector.
At the Futures Forum you will learn how to re-imagine the future, challenge current assumptions, analyse past and future trends to identify new opportunities, learn from the future to creatively develop a number of possibilities and use the future to shape vision and actionable strategies.
This event is highly participative and uses various forms of creative engagement to develop strategic agility in a constantly changing operating environment.
By the end of the workshop you will understand Futures Thinking – using trends, emerging issues, scenarios and strategy to explore new possibilities for your practice, your business, and the arts, culture and creative industries ecology.
To find out more and register: http://www.cacwa.org.au/events/event/futures-forum
May 25-27, 2016
Futures Thinking and Strategy Development: A Leadership Training
The Change Initiative, Bangkok, Thailand, www.change-initiative.com
For whom is the course: The course is suitable for managers, trainers, consultants and facilitators with strategic planning responsibility from all sectors including the public sector, corporate sector and private sector.
Detailed event information: http://www.change-initiative.com/wp-content/uploads/Sohail-2016_compressed.pdf
June 23, 2016
Global Futures, Geneva Perspectives.
Learning and Livelihoods: implications for children and youth on the move.
Salle Sergio Vieira de Mello (2nd Floor), World Meteorological Organisation, 7 bis Avenue de la Paix, Geneva
September 1, 2016
What does Geelong’s future look like?
The City of Greater Geelong will shortly start community consultations on what you think Geelong’s future could look like. This session is the perfect kick starter for you to become a future creator!
Professor Sohail Inayatullah will speak at the event and focus on:
- Emerging issues and trends that will change our daily lives in 20 years
- Why thinking about the future is important to us
- How changes might impact you, your family, your community, your industry.
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http://www.geelongaustralia.com.au/calendar/calendar/item/8d3c121ce4aa0ef.aspx
| Contact: | Bonnie Lanham |
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| Email: | blanham@geelongcity.vic.gov.au |
June 27-28, 2016
Business model innovation for NGOs
This groundbreaking five-day programme will support leaders to create innovative, future-fit business models. It combines the expertise of leading futures thinker Sohail Inayatullah, strategy and innovation specialist Ian Gray, and the Bond futures team.
June 27-28, 2016, London, England.
More information: https://www.bond.org.uk/learning/business-model-innovation-for-ngos
July 18-24, 2016
European Prout Conference
Copenhagen, Denmark
Info on previous European Prout Conference (2015):
September 5-9, 2016
TENAGA NASIONAL BERHAD EXECUTIVE DEVELOPMENT PROGAM
September 5-9, Melbourne Business School, Melbourne Australia
Futures thinking and strategy development co-taught with Dr. Robert Burke
Anticipatory action learning for Malaysia’s main energy provider
More information: https://mbs.edu/news/malaysian-power-executives-supercharge-their-studi
September 12-15, 2016
FUTURES THINKING AND STRATEGY DEVELOPMENT
September 12-15, Mt Eliza Executive Education, Mornington Peninsula, Victoria
Co-taught with Dr. Robert Burke.
More information: https://mbs.edu/education-development/execeducation/strategy/ftsd
Futurist Advocates for ‘Strategic Foresight’ in Corporate Planning (2015)
By: Natalie Greve, Creamer Media Contributing Editor Online
United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organisation chair in futures studies Professor Sohail Inayatullah has touted the adoption of “transformative and strategic foresight” by companies in future scenario planning, telling a workshop that this approach creates flexibility in decision-making by moving from a focus on one inevitable future to an analysis of several alternative ones.
This methodology was used by organisations such as the World Economic Forum, which used it to reframe challenges, analyse assumptions about existing organisational challenges and clarify future options for strategic decision-making.
The foresight approach, Inayatullah explained, encouraged a shift from focusing on the day-to-day operational considerations of management to the longer-term transformative dimensions of leadership, introducing broader systematic and transdisciplinarian perspectives and solutions.
“This approach allows [companies] to anticipate emerging issues and weak signals that may derail strategic plans and policies. Through environmental scanning, strategic foresight intends to solve tomorrow’s problems today and discover opportunities early on,” the futurist outlined.
Importantly, the foresight approach changed the temporal horizon of planning from the short term to the medium and long term, while reducing risk by emphasising the positions of multiple stakeholders.
“Often, strategies fail not because of an inaccurate assessment of alternative futures, but as a result of a lack of understanding of deep culture”.
“Blind spots – which are always built into the knowledge framework of each person and organisation – are addressed by including difference. This makes implementation far easier,” said Inayatullah.
Future-based studies and transformative insight in organisations were based on six pillars, the first of which involved the mapping of the past, present and future.
Mapping sought to identify the historical factors and patterns that had created the present, which was itself mapped through environmental scans.
The second pillar saw the anticipation of the future through the identification of emerging issues, while the third pillar sought to “time the future” through an analysis of previous patterns in history.
Inayatullah’s fourth pillar was based on “deepening” the future through an analysis of the deeper myths and world views present beneath the data of the “official” future using causal layered analysis.
A series of alternative possible futures were then created through scenario-planning and an analysis of the critical uncertainties driving the future as well as the archetypes of personal and societal change.
Lastly, through the application of backcasting, visioning and action learning, the future was then “transformed” through the articulation of a preferred future and the development of critical pathways.
Edited by: Chanel de Bruyn Creamer Media Senior Deputy Editor Online