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Futures Analysis & Scenario PlanningCourse Available by Arrangement Only. Group Discounts are available.
Course ObjectivesTired of muddling through? Does your organisation or employer need to better plot direction, manage change and share understandings? You can do this by systematically reviewing trends, anticipating reaction to shocks, and building adaptability into your formal decision-making procedures. The well-attested framework for this is futures analysis, analysis that is centred around scenario planning but also takes on board a full range of associated methods, both hard and soft. As developed by Shell, applied to national affairs by South Africa, championed in the antipodes by the Business Council of Australia (BCA) and practiced in consulting by McKinsey and Co., individual organisations and CEOs can now learn these techniques and conduct their own reviews effectively using public access tools, or learn how to commission value-for-money consultancies. Talk to us about how the ANU can tailor a professional course on futures analysis tailor-made to benefit your organisation. The course will be developed by Prof Glenn Withers, whose expertise in this area has been sought after internationally by Governments wanting to develop nation-wide policies based on futures analysis. Scan and analyse potential future trends or events and examine their hypothetical effects on your organisation?s state of preparedness, your responsiveness, the contingent risks and liabilities and your market positioning in relation to competitors. ACT NOW to improve your organisation's state of readiness, limit potential risks and liabilities, and competitively position yourself to anticipate and harness new market opportunities. Course ConvenorProfessor Glenn Withers recently refined these methods in Australia at the Economic Planning Advisory Commission (EPAC) where he compiled reports for the Treasurer Peter Costello and Prime Minister John Howard and more recently. used them as the basis for developing Malaysia's Human Resource Development MasterPlan covering labour, education, welfare, industry and innovation policies in a whole-of government approach. The key points of this MasterPlan were recently adopted by the Malaysian Government. The methods involved are also taught in the Australia and New Zealand School of Government executive MPA program, in a course led by Professor Withers, as an essential tool for decision-making under uncertainty. |
