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Overview
What you will study
The Strategic Planning and Foresight workshop offered by University of Oxford looks at futures strategies, visioning and the application of imagination which allow us to learn from the future.
The aims of the workshop are to help participants:
- Examine the importance and limitations of strategic planning.
- Understand the difficulties of predicting the future in a turbulent world.
- Explore how short-term thinking has endangered the wealth and health of many countries.
- Take the long view to develop more enduring capability.
- Consider destiny and fate.
- Examine the distinctions between risk, chance and luck
- Create the foundations for organisational strategic thinking.
- Explore futures strategies.
- Examine forecasting methods and tools.
- Undertake visioning strategies to see further into the darkness than other organisations.
- Ensure that planning is effective and efficient.
- Develop resilience capabilities to address unpredictable events.
- Examine the neurological basis of daydreaming.
- Encourage a culture of imagination, invention, innovation and creativity.
- The workshop will provide a toolbox of ideas and strategies which can be applied in the workplace.
Programme Structure
The program focuses on:
- The principles of strategic planning.
- Developing strategic foresight.
- Volatility, uncertainty, complexity and ambiguity.
- Chaos, black swans, randomness, and weak signals.
- Risk, chance and luck.
- Mapping the system.
- Futures strategies
- Visioning.
- Scenarios.
- The neuroscience of imagination and daydreaming.
- Learning from the future.
- Invention, innovation and creativity.
- Environmental scanning.
- Forecasting and back-casting.
Key information
Duration
- Full-time
- 1 days
Start dates & application deadlines
- StartingApplication deadline not specified.
Language
English
Delivered
On Campus
Campus Location
- Oxford, United Kingdom
Disciplines
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Academic requirements
We are not aware of any specific GRE, GMAT or GPA grading score requirements for this programme.
English requirements
We are not aware of any English requirements for this programme.
Other requirements
General requirements
- This course was designed for an audience of organisations, strategists, researchers, managers, designers, architects and students wishing to construct their own and their organisation's future.
Tuition Fees
Tuition fees are shown in and the most likely applicable fee is shown based on your nationality.
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International Applies to you
Applies to youNon-residents685 GBP / full≈ 685 GBP / full -
Domestic Applies to you
Applies to youCitizens or residents685 GBP / full≈ 685 GBP / full
Living costs
Oxford
United Kingdom
939 - 1530 GBP / month
The living costs include the total expenses per month, covering accommodation, public transportation, utilities (electricity, internet), books and groceries.
Funding
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