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The " Strategic Thinking in Uncertainty - Scenario Planning " Program aims to facilitate an understanding of the alternative futures that organizations may encounter and to pinpoint the essential capabilities needed to prosper in the future. This highly interactive program will focus on developing crucial skills necessary for navigating challenging times.

Target Audience

•      Executives motivated to become better leaders and strategists

•    Senior leaders and business partners driving organizational development and transformational changes

•      Senior professionals who would like to enhance strategic competency

Objective

This training aims to facilitate an understanding of the alternative futures that organizations may encounter and to pinpoint the essential capabilities needed to prosper in the future.

This highly interactive training will focus on developing crucial skills necessary for navigating challenging times. Over the program of one day, participants will dive into the following key topics:


•      Principle of scenario thinking and embracing diverse perspectives.

•      Understanding the business value proposition.

•      Identifying key uncertainties by scanning the environment.

•      Utilizing creativity and intuition to envision future scenarios.

•      Constructing alternative scenarios for the future.

•      Identifying specific capabilities and skills required by the organization in the future.


*Communicating the journey of change in a compelling manner.

Key Methodology

Agenda

9:30 AM - 10:00 AM
Ice Breaking Activity
10:00 AM - 11:00 AM
How complexity impacts our world
11:00 AM - 11:15 AM
Morning Tea
11:15 AM - 1:00 PM
Strategy in Complexity
1:00 PM - 2:00 PM
Lunch
2:00 PM - 3:45 PM
Scenario Thinking for an uncertain future
3:45 PM - 4:00 PM
Afternoon Tea
4:00 PM - 5:00 PM
High impact strategy and business planning
5:00 PM - 5:30 PM
Summary and action plan

Speakers

  • Norman Chorn (Senior Facilitator & Future Strategist at ISLC)

    Norman Chorn

    Senior Facilitator & Future Strategist at ISLC

    • Professor of Strategy and Management
    • Professor of EMBA programs in Austria, UK, South Africa
    • Author of Strategic Alignment/ Future Builder

    Norman works as a strategy consultant, executive coach and part-time academic in Australia, UK, China, New Zealand and South Africa. Prior to his consulting & coaching career, he held senior marketing and General Manager positions within services and manufacturing. After leaving a leading consulting firm, Norman founded a strategy and research firm with affiliations in UK and North America.

    His work integrates the research from neuroscience with economics and strategy. It addresses:
    • Strategy in highly uncertain environments, using various approaches such as scenario planning and neurostrategy
    • Organisation development – designing and developing innovative organisations
    • Leadership and personal resilience – achieving growth and adaptation.

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Tickets

Please use your own name and email when registering for a training session. Additional fees may apply if you fail to register under your own identity. 


A prepayment is required for all full-day training sessions. 

全天培训课程需要提前付款。

Non-Member Ticket
Standard Price RMB 4,680
Member Ticket
Standard Price RMB 4,380
Special Discount Ticket

Three or more attendees from one member company

Standard Price RMB 3,980
Member Company Employee Tickets
Standard Price RMB 4,380

Cancellation Policy

If you need to cancel your registration, please notify Cynthia Xia at (86 21) 6169 3017 or email Cynthia.Xia@amcham-shanghai.org at least 3 working days prior to the session for a full refund. Cancellation made within 2 working days before the session will charge 20% of ticket fee.

Venue

AmCham Shanghai Conference Center

27F, Infinitus Tower
No.168 Hubin Road, Huangpu District
新天地湖滨路168号无限极大厦27楼

Shanghai, China

If you have any questions please contact Cynthia Xia

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