Programme Content
Module 1: Heuristics and managing behaviour
Surface unconscious modes of thinking in yourself and others.
Understand the use of heuristics in decision-making.
Develop a heuristic for managing risk.
Module 2: Risk to the enterprise
Map the risks that you create on the road to generating value.
Explore the aspects of your organisation that could benefit from an enterprise view of risk rather than an individual or functional view.
Draw on management structures that support holistic thinking about organisations.
Module 3: Scenario generation
Understand the need for scenario thinking.
Identify drivers of change in the wider environment, and their relevance to your organisation.
Build scenarios to avoid the prediction trap of planning for one future.
Module 4: Scenario assessment: connecting futures with strategy
Assess the likelihood of a given scenario and your organisation’s level of preparedness.
Identify and assess key success factors for your organisation.
Identify activities and initiatives today to address the trends of tomorrow.
Module 5: Making sense of complexity
Discover how complexity manifests within your organisation.
Reflect upon how you react to complexity and challenge.
Module 6: Systemic effects and contagion
Internalise a fact: systemic events, though unpredictable will hit sooner or later.
Map the connected elements of your wider business environment.
Explore the process of stress testing your organisation for resilience.
