STRATEGIC FORESIGHT CONSULTING
DEFINITION AND BENEFITS OF STRATEGIC FORESIGHT
Strategic foresight is a process-driven and systematic approach that applies methodology, uses models/frameworks, approaches, methods, techniques, and tools of strategic foresight in each step of the strategic foresight process. The steps in the strategic foresight process are highly interactive with each other. The steps in the strategic foresight process aim to support scenario planning/scenario development to create plausible futures, possible futures, desirable futures, alternative futures, and feasible futures from 3 to 20 years ahead in the strategic foresight process.
BENEFITS OF APPLYING STRATEGIC FORESIGHT
In a volatile, uncertain, complex, and ambiguous (VUCA)/Turbulent, Uncertain, Novel, Ambiguous (TUNA) post-COVID-19 pandemic world, organizations and companies greatly need strategic foresight as an assistant leader and management assistant to implement strategic leadership and strategic management guide their organizations and companies to survive and overcome risks and uncertainties. The results of strategic foresight help companies plan rational strategies, recognize and manage strategic issues, make sound strategic decisions. Strategic foresight and issues management help companies control the implementation of strategies, detect changes in the strategic management process, strategic foresight and issues management combined with appropriate change management models help companies manage change in the strategic management process, etc.
DRN`S APPROACH TO STRATEGIC FORESIGHT AND ISSUES MANAGEMENT CONSULTATION
DRN will integrate strategic foresight and issues management into the strategic planning and strategic management process: consulting, mentoring, training, organizing workshops, brainstorming sessions for the leadership team, management team, supervisors, specialists, and prospective employees on applying and practicing strategic foresight and issues management into the planning process to create future scenarios in the companys industry create a vision, plan company strategies, business strategies, functional strategies, test strategies against future scenarios created, after testing, the company will tested strategies to implement for strategies from 3 to 10 years according to desired futures or possible futures from scenario planning results. The results of strategic foresight also apply to the companys creation of strategic choices, knowing plausible futures, possible futures, desirable futures, alternative futures, and feasible futures from 3 to 10 years ahead from these futures, DRN uses a strategic foresight tool to bring the futures to the present to use strategic foresight models/frameworks combine strategic foresight methods, tools, and techniques and strategic management tools to understand the results of strategic foresight to help leaders create the right vision to form strategies, develop strategies, plan strategies, implement and assess the implementation of strategies, make strategic decisions, and manage strategic issues. Apply the results of strategic foresight to innovate, create, research and develop, etc.
Forecasting techniques are just one of many types of strategic foresight techniques and tools used throughout the strategic foresight process.