Strategic Foresight in Times of Heavy TUNA

  • March 21, 2021 - 9:00am
  • Novotel Hotel 19/9 Sukhumvit 20 Alley, Khwaeng Khlong Toei, Klongton Bangkok 10110

This time in history is not just about a single crisis management event as the global system is shifting rapidly driven by not only COVID but other disruptions as well. Business continuity strategies must now be about dynamic transient planning. Attend this workshop on how to lead your team to collaborate and define the possible courses of action based on the most probable scenarios derived through a strategic foresight process.  The workshop will assist you to plan and address critical actions to protect and expand the value of your organization in the times of major change. We will explore how to Innovate Your Way Through Disruption and Transform Your Business. This program is designed to give you the tools and guidance to support you in the current crisis and help future-fit your business.

You Will Learn How To:

  1. See and make sense of the COVID and other disruption scenarios and then create strategies to future-proof your business
  2. Use a Strategic Foresight Planning Process to see emerging problems and opportunities
  3. Apply the foresight framework to assess your strategic options
  4. Take immediate steps to execute a course of action for interventions to create new value for your company

What You Will Get:

  1. An opportunity to share and engage with others on your questions and COVID-response experiences to date
  2. A framework/template driven approach you can adopt/adapt on your own to protect value and assess options for business recovery, and more importantly building resilience.

Workshop Topics We Will Cover:

  1. Understanding key factors for leadership decision-making in uncertain times
  2. Define your hyper-relevant risks and opportunities with a practical framework and templates
  3. Discovering the current COVID scenarios for your business and prioritizing the key critical uncertainties and assumptions
  4. Defining the immediate critical action items/projects/initiatives based on the preferred future scenario for your business
  5. How to organize your executives and response teams to execute a portfolio of interventions for the next 30-90 days
 

March 21, 2021

 

Stage/Phase Output
 

9:00 am

1. Reframing Focal Theme
 

10:00 am

2. Scanning Change Drivers
 

11:00 am

3. Futuring Alternative Futures
 

1:00 pm

4. Visioning Preferred Future
 

2:30 pm

5. Designing Strategic Options
 

3:30 pm

6. Back-casting Strategic Capabilities
 

4:30 pm

7. Moving Forward Strategy Execution Road Map
 

5:00 pm


Workshop Wrap-up
 
Closing

William Malek has been working with management teams for over 30+ years to design, plan and implement “executable” strategies and build organizational capabilities for innovation and transformation. He is the former program director for the Advanced Project Management Program at Stanford University. As one of the top-ranked instructors in the program, he taught and consulted on Enterprise Strategic Risk Management and also helped design and teach award-winning courses “Converting Strategy into Action,” “Mastering the Project Portfolio,” “Designing Organizations for Execution,”​ and “Leadership for Strategic Execution.”  Some of his innovative thinking around the Strategy Execution Framework is described in his co-authored book entitled, Executing Your Strategy: How to Break it Down & Get it Done, published by the Harvard Business School Press. He has certifications in Project Management, New Product Development, Executive Coaching & Group Facilitation and sits on several Boards.

Strategic Foresight in Times of Heavy TUNA
(Turbulence, Uncertainty, Novelty, and Ambiguity)

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Date: Sunday, March 21, 2021
Time: 09:00 – 17:30
Fees: 4000 THB for members; 6000 THB for non-members
Location: Novotel Bangkok Sukhumvit Soi 20
PDUs: 7 Strategy PDUs

Registration for this event is closed by 10 AM

This event qualifies for 7 Strategy PDUs. If you are a PMI Thailand Chapter member, these PDUs will be registered for you by the Chapter. If you are not a member, you will have to submit these PDUs yourself. For more information on how to submit PDUs, follow this guideline.

EVENT INFO :

  • Speaker:William Malek
  • Start Date:March 21, 2021
  • Start Time:9:00am
  • End Date:March 21, 2021
  • End Time:5:30pm
  • Number of Participants:30
  • Location:Novotel Hotel 19/9 Sukhumvit 20 Alley, Khwaeng Khlong Toei, Klongton Bangkok 10110
  • Website:pmithai.org
  • Organizer:William Malek
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