Governments must anticipate change and innovate to meet rising expectations and emerging challenges. This Program equips public professionals to apply innovation and strategic foresight in government.
Designed for manager-level public professionals, the Program reflects international public sector innovation and foresight practice worldwide. It is directly applicable to innovating in government in any context.
Course Objectives
Upon the successful completion of this program, attendees will be able to:
- Understand innovation and foresight in government
- Build a public innovation mindset
- Identify problems worth solving
- Apply design thinking in the public sector
- Generate and test ideas
- Apply experimentation and pilots
- Use behavioural insights
- Apply strategic foresight and futures thinking
- Scan for trends and signals
- Develop scenarios
- Anticipate emerging challenges
- Build innovation capability and culture
- Manage innovation and risk
- Scale public innovations
- Embed foresight in decisions
- Apply emerging trends in public innovation
Course Outline
- Module 1: Innovation & Foresight in Government
- Module 2: A Public Innovation Mindset
- Module 3: Identifying Problems Worth Solving
- Module 4: Design Thinking in the Public Sector
- Module 5: Generating & Testing Ideas
- Module 6: Experimentation & Pilots
- Module 7: Behavioural Insights
- Module 8: Strategic Foresight & Futures Thinking
- Module 9: Scanning for Trends & Signals
- Module 10: Developing Scenarios
- Module 11: Anticipating Emerging Challenges
- Module 12: Innovation Capability & Culture
- Module 13: Innovation & Risk
- Module 14: Scaling Public Innovations
- Module 15: Emerging Trends: Public Innovation
Who Should Attend
This Program is designed for public sector managers, innovation and policy staff at manager level in government ministries, agencies, and development organisations internationally.
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