Institute For The Future

IFTF Custom Foresight Essentials

IFTF Custom Foresight Essentials is designed to teach individuals and teams the tools and techniques necessary to intuit change, communicate vision, build capacity, and lead organizations more confidently into the future.

The customizable course trains participants to:

• Build a “foresight mindset” to see what the future may hold
• Identify and analyze signals and drivers of change
• Empower your organization with strategic foresight

Learn more with the IFTF Custom Foresight Essentials brochure here.

IFTF Custom Foresight Essentials is ideal
for individuals and teams committed to creating
transformative possibilities for their enterprise.

What will you learn?

Learn to filter information to determine its usefulness.
Transform urgent foresight into actionable insights.
Develop your own future-making experiments that lead.
to actionable insights.
Finish the course armed with methodologies proven to
navigate volatile times.

Why IFTF?

Based in Palo Alto, California, Institute for the Future (IFTF) is the world’s leading futures-thinking organization. For more than 50 years, IFTF has provided global forecasts, custom research, and foresight training for businesses, governments, and social impact organizations seeking to develop world-ready strategies and navigate global change.

Why does your organization need foresight?

IFTF’s futures-thinking curriculum draws on more than 50 years of experience in strategic foresight and helping organizations prepare for the future. Custom-tailored for any organization, IFTF’s Custom Foresight Essentials delivers a series of integrated lessons framed around the powerful curriculum of Prepare-Foresight-Insight-Action. Developed by the IFTF, this framework provides a systematic approach to anticipating and analyzing foreseeable patterns that affect change. Foresight Training offers a practical immersion into the methodologies and tools that can help organizations understand what futures are possible, how they can shape those futures, and how they can capture new opportunities as quickly as possible.

Indelible learning experiences.
Cutting-edge futures-thinking tools.

Session Options

Half-day / One-day session
Every version of Foresight Training can be tailored specifically for any organization. The half-day session provides an overview of futures thinking and the basic signals spotting process. A customized one-day session introduces Foresight Fundamentals and focuses on one key area of the Prepare-Foresight-Insight-Action framework based on strategic needs.

Two-day session
The two-day training includes the entire Prepare-Foresight-Insight-Action curriculum including hands-on practice with Insight Tools; an introduction to Action Tools that make the future relevant today; and a personal or team action plan for applying new learning to a current project.

Three-day session
This option begins on Day One with Foresight Fundamentals; then presents Signals and Drivers of Change, relevant futures content, Insight Tools, and forecast drafting. Day Two focuses on creating future forecasts and the use of Insight Tools to reveal possible impact. Day Three features practice with Action Tools and the creation of a personal or team plan to integrate the previous materials.