Executive Learning
A major energy company needed a time-efficient way to expose its top 650 executives to the radical changes that might reshape it’s business environment. Outsights and its associates brought together leading-edge thinkers and industry specialists in an event that permitted all participants to grapple with the implications of drivers of change in the domains of climatology, transportation, medical science, the IT-driven working environment, politics, economics, religion and social trends.
Business Schools
Outsights has worked with Business Schools – in UK, France and Scandinavia – to deliver Futures Programmes to graduate students. One example is the Stockholm School of Economics Fenix Programme, which has the ambitious objective of bringing together young high flyers from industry, government and NGOs to prepare together for the future. Scenario thinking is used to shape the framework for the Programme, as a strong team building exercise, and an opportunity to create a shared set of perspectives about the future.21st Century Trust
One of the leading UK programmes for young to mid career professionals, this Think Tank uses scenarios to help people from disparate organisations to come together for a few days, as a way of giving a common thread and process for their wide ranging discussions. It allows them to work out some of the big questions early on, to engage with the faculty and then try to answer their questions, in a friendly but sufficiently disciplined structure.
Keeping Senior Executives at the leading edge of industry
In one leading Healthcare company a leadership development programme brings together young leaders with Senior Executives to think about the trends and shapers of their industry. Outsights helps participants to identify the macro factors shaping change in the coming decade and scope the possible future trajectories of key drivers. In building the scenarios, participants have come up with insightful and credible options for developing the business.
Senior Management Professionalism series
A global energy company needed to inject some challenging insights about the outside world into one of it’s large business units in order to better prepare for the future. Using its Drivers of Change presentation – which brings to life key uncertainties about the future – Outsights exposed participants to new ideas and challenging insights into what is driving that business.
