September 8-10, 2010 | NBTA Europe Conference
Lisbon, Portugal
Academic Director: Franck Schuurmans
Competency: Leadership/Management
Program Overview
Managing In a World of Uncertainty will focus on how to develop, test or surface your organization's strategic direction in the face of uncertainty and complexity. It introduces a new conceptual framework and methodology to assure innovative, as well as, disciplined strategic thinking in volatile and complex environments. It is a quantum change from traditional planning approaches. It focuses on concepts, frameworks and techniques to link strategic vision to core capabilities. It presents the various steps of our scenario-based strategic planning methodology, and in a workshop format, applies them to your own business.
Participants will:
- Acquire a variety of strategies for framing problems, and learn when to apply them.
- Learn to accurately assess the degree of uncertainty in individual problems.
- Learn to recognize when you have enough information, the right information, or
when you need to do more research.
- Learn to structure more complex challenges to ensure you are addressing the
right issues.
- Learn to involve the proper people at the right time in the right way.
- Learn to create environments that foster continual feedback and learning.
Our Approach
This unique executive program focuses on how to develop, test or surface your organization's strategic direction in the face of uncertainty and complexity. In this program you will learn how to recognize, assess and avoid or overcome characteristic errors in human judgment and choice using revealing self-tests. Participants are invited to bring an actual decision challenge from work, to be analyzed by breakout teams during the program. Although we may not be able to solve your problem on the spot, you will have a clear road map for generating, testing and choosing among your various decision options.