IFTF Foresight Essentials
Foresight is a skill. Learn it from the experts.
The world is changing quickly. New developments in technology, commerce, education, and health mean that what passes for “normal” today may be obsolete tomorrow. For most organizations, the ability to foresee their own future possibilities—and take action to direct them—could mean the difference between life and death.
IFTF Foresight Essentials is a portfolio of trainings created to provide the right tools and techniques for embracing strategic foresight, navigating large-scale change, and leading your organization towards a vibrant future.
With IFTF Foresight Essentials, you’ll learn to:
- Identify and analyze signals of change
- See beyond current constraints to identify new possibilities
- Leverage hindsight to discover patterns of innovation and disruption
- Design futures projects that lead to actionable insights
- Build your organization’s foresight capacity
IFTF Foresight Essentials Calendar
{Last Updated May 20, 2020}
- May 27-June 19, 5 sessions, Live-Online {Sold-Out}
- June 23-26, 2020, Live-Online
- September 1-3, 2020, Copenhagen, Denmark
- October 6-8, 2020, Manchester, New Hampshire
- December 1-3, 2020, Palo Alto, CA
IFTF Design Futures Calendar
- July 7-9, 2020, Live-Online
- October 13-14, 2020, Palo Alto, CA
IFTF Foresight Essentials
Institute for the Future is the world’s leading futures organization. Its training program, IFTF Foresight Essentials, is a comprehensive portfolio of strategic foresight training tools based upon 50 years of IFTF best practices. IFTF Foresight Essentials cultivates the mindset and skillset that enable individuals and organizations to foresee future forces, identify emerging imperatives, and develop world-ready strategies. IFTF Foresight Essentials is uniquely customizable for businesses, government agencies, and social impact organizations.
IFTF Foresight Toolkit + Templates Usage
As a research and educational organization, Institute for the Future’s mission is to build more foresight capacity in the world by providing tools and resources to help people better anticipate the future to make decisions in the present. To this end the IFTF Foresight Essentials Toolkit and Templates are held under an IFTF copyright and licensed under the Creative Commons 4.0 International License (CC BY-NC-ND 4.0). If you are an IFTF Certified Foresight Practitioner, we encourage the reproduction and use of these tools within your organization(s) and in your own practice of foresight education for any non-commercial, attribution-only, non-derivative use.
For more information about using these tools or how to bring a Foresight Workshop to your organization with customized content, please contact:
Lyn Jeffery | ljeffery@iftf.org