This is here just to preload the mouseover images. The Fifth Global Change Strategic Management Seminar is a response to the ongoing world-wide redefinement of the roles and responsibilities for education in an information age. The economic context and the allocation of resources will surely change. Exactly what these differences will be, and how they will evolve, is anybody's guess. A major focus of the seminar is on the development and use of scenario planning.
Scenarios reveal the flow process of an evolving future.
They are holistic, combining social, technological, economic, environmental, and political trends and events. They focus our attention on the branching points of the future, the potential contingencies and discontinuities. By basing decisions on alternative futures, and by testing planning actions against the different conditions these scenarios present, we learn how to prepare for uncertainty and to ensure that our decisions can deal with contingencies, even those deemed unthinkable. And by having thought the unthinkable, we become better prepared to see the opportunities as well as the threats in any situation. Seminar effectiveness relies on an appropriate mix of formal presentations, small group exercises, and professional exchanges among the participants.