DISCOVERY.
strategy
lodestar
Lodestar is our 3-day futures and foresight strategy course for both senior leaders and those working on the coal face to deliver organisational change.
DESiGN
Opportunities for a return on investment
Work according to your customers and end users
Your real sources of advantage
Where there are benefits to taking risks
Your organisational values, purpose and culture
NETWORK
Secure strategic buy-in from C-suite colleagues and wider organisational leaders
Align with priorities and wider internal and external strategies
Benchmark and challenge your strategy against competitors and peers
Secure endorsement from internal and external stakeholders including agencies, your value chain and shareholders
DELIVER
Guide agencies and delivery partners with mutually exclusive and collectively exhaustive strategies
Manage resource effectively by working out what to focus on and what can be disregarded
Keep your strategy on track in frenetic and fast paced environments
Allows you to collect futures data to inform subsequent work
EVALUATE
Clearly articulate the financial implications of your work
Develop decision packages for senior leaders
Provide tools for future-led monitoring and evaluating
Create a futures legacy in your team and wider organisation
Policy
vanguard
Vanguard is our 3-day futures and foresight course for policy professionals and decision makers. Making the link between futures thinking and policy delivery.
DESiGN
Direct link to the policy opportunity or threat
Policies with value for money, feasibility and practicality at their core
Acknowledge strategic, legal, regulatory, ethical, resource and procurement constraints
Consider potential unintended consequences, alternative policy approaches and expanding your Overton window
Promote equity, inclusivity and diverse perspectives
NETWORK
Secure strategic buy-in from ministers, senior civil servants and other policy leaders
Align with priorities of your wider organisation and objectives from across your sector
Embrace best practice from comparators
Iterate and test your policies with you stakeholders
DELIVER
Communicate effectively with your decision makers to enable robust decision-making
Secure stakeholder endorsement including other public sector bodies
Engage and inspire your delivery partners
Allow you to collect futures data to inform work and provide assurance where quantitative information is limited
EVALUATE
Appraise your policy, programme and budget
Understand and scrutinise intangible and social benefits
Leave a sustainable legacy and long-term impact
Replicate your work in wider policy contexts
Forecasting
pathfinder
Pathfinder is an additional bolt-on to our Lodestar and Vanguard offerings
Pathfinder is our specialised training for individuals and organisations to improve their forecasting and decision-making skills
Provided by Good Judgment Inc.
Options include private workshops, public workshops, self-paced online training, and more
Good Judgment Inc. equip you with tools and techniques identified through Good Judgment Inc. research and validated by Superforecasters since 2015
The average trainee sees a 20% or more boost in forecasting accuracy after attending a workshop