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Primary Foresight Certificate Programs - Global List 

Foresight certificate programs are multi-day educational seminars, usually over several consecutive days, in person or online, in primary foresight methods. They are a great place for working professionals to get a practical, productive introduction to foresight tools and thinking. Below is our list of the best programs we know of. We will add more programs here as we find them. Programs are listed in alpha order by name of program or of university/ institution:

1. Azerbaijan Foresight Certificate Program (Azerbaijan)
Two semester online program and certificate in foresight. Collaboration of the Azerbaijan State Economic University (ASEU), The Millennium Project and Azerbaijan Future Studies Society (AFSS). Faculty: Jerry Glenn and Ted Gordon.

2. International Certified Future Strategist (Europe) [In Development]
Four European foresight consultancies, Kairos Future (Sweden), IFOK (Germany), ShiftN (Belgium), Shared Intelligence (UK), Emetris (Greece), and Capful (Finland) are developing an education program leading to International Certified Future Strategist (ICFS) certificate. They aim for this certificate to help develop a new foresight strategist job category in Europe. The project started in Oct 2012 and the first program will launch in early 2015.

Four- and seven-day programs for corporate decisionmakers. Focus is on exponentially growing technologies and their business opportunities. A range of instructors across a range of disruptive technology domains. $8,000-10,000.
Location: Mountain View, CA, USA. Directors: Peter Diamandis and Ray Kurzweil

Two-day intensive Strategic Foresight program for leaders, strategists, decisionmakers. Next is Nov 26-27, 2012. Faculty: Dr. Peter Hayward, Dr. Joseph Voros, Rowena Morrow.  

Five-day program, includes foresight, forecasting, and planning. Two days of strategic forecasting and three days of strategic planning. Two instructors, both with broad foresight experience. University of Houston Futures Studies Program
Locations: Houston, Texas, USA and Brussels, Belgium; Online. Faculty: Peter Bishop, Andy Hines.
Houston 2013:  5-Day, Project-Based, Face-to-Face Workshop May 13-17, 2013, Houston, Texas, USA
Brussels, Belgium 2013:  May 27-31, 2013.

Four and a half-day program. Organizational environment, context, and assumptions influencing strategic decisions. Program builds scenarios thinking and planning to test these conditions, challenge assumptions, and explores what new opportunities would yield from different assumptions.. £4,800 plus £450 accommodation (Note: Fees listed in British Pounds).

Location: Oxford, UK. Faculty: Rafael Ramirez, Angela Wilkinson, Kees van der Heijden.



Shorter Primary Foresight Training Programs 
and Select Secondary Foresight Certificate Programs

Below is our starter list of shorter and noncertificate training programs in primary foresight methods, and quality certificate programs in secondary foresight methods. We will add more programs here as we find them. Programs are listed in alpha order by name of program:

Competitive Intelligence Professional certificate (ACI and SCIP): 10 days. Good CI is the first step in org. foresight.
Demand Planning, Forecasting, and S&OP certificate (IBF): Three exams, 450 questions.
Economic Forecasting certificate (U Albany and ERI): Five courses, including surveys and quant methods training.
Ideation TRIZ (Inventive Problem Solving Process) (Ideation Int'l): 1-5 days. Inventive problem solving, directed ideation methods.
Implications Wheel™ Facilitator training (Joel Barker): 4 days. Exploring first, second, third order implications.

Scenario Planning workshop (Thomas Chermack): 1 day. Scenario-driven strategic planning.

SenseMaker® training (David Snowdon): Four weeks, online. Narrative fragments, story prompts, signifiers.

Shaping Tomorrow workshops and webinars (Michael Jackson, Sheila Moorcroft, Maree Conway). Strategic foresight.

Spiral Dynamics training (Chris Cowan, Natasha Todorovic): Four days. Change management and cultural development.

Strategic Management Professional (SMP) - Level II certificate (ASP): 3 hr exam, 160 questions

Strategic Planning Professional (SPP) - Level I certificate (ASP): 3 hr exam, 160 questions.

Strategy Matrix® training (Joel Barker): Online. SWOT plus strategic objectives and key characteristics analysis.

TRIZ (Inventive Problem Solving Process) (ASME): Three days. Innovation methods for products and business process.


Know other foresight training or certificate programs that should be on this page? Add them here. Email the wiki moderators, susanchesleyfant{at}gmail{dot}com or johnsmart{at}accelerating{dot}org, with a brief paragraph on your background, and ask for editing access. We are always looking for more foresight students, professionals, grads, and advocates to post here and help the global foresight community.

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