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Subject: AUA events
Date: Tue, 2 Jul 2002 12:32:26 +0100
From: "Kathy Curtis" <[log in to unmask]>
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Dear Colleague,
Please could you kindly circulate this bulletin to your members.
Many thanks
News of forthcoming events from Association of University Administrators
(AUA)
Learning from the Future: Foresight in Universities
A great opportunity to learn new techniques and 'think outside
the box'
Date: 15 July 2002
Time: 1100-1600
Venue: The University of Manchester
Speaker: Maree Conway, Director, Foresight and Planning,
Swinburne University of Technology Australia
Most universities are already using a variant of foresight in
their strategic planning without realising it, but put simply,
it's a way of developing a shared view of the future rather than
individuals developing their own, unshared, view of the future.
Swinbourne University of Technology are using scenario planning
as a way of drawing out people's expertise to inform their
strategic planning and have concluded a University-wide scenario
planning project.
This workshop is in two parts. The first part is a short
presentation about what foresight is; what methodologies can be
used to implement foresight in organisations, including a generic
foresight process to link foresight and ongoing strategic
planning and a short case study of a foresight project underway
at Swinburne University of Technology in Melbourne, Australia.
The second part will take participants through a modified
scenario planning process focused around the question "will
universities exist in 2020?" Scenario projects usually take
anywhere up to six months, so this workshop exercise is intended
only to introduce participants to the methodology and how it can
be used in strategic planning.
The target audience is planners primarily, but any manager
interested in finding out more about futures planning, and how it
can be integrated into strategic planning, would find it useful.
Participants in workshops already held at Swinburne have made
the following comments about their experience:
"Very insightful, well related back to our work in planning and
operating our 'core business'."
"...it's taken it from a plan to a developmental process."
"It flushes out all the 'hidden' and open issues that most
people
are unlikely to articulate individually."
"Demonstrates the importance of thinking beyond the box and
being
allowed to do this."
"The process we went through gave me a much clearer
understanding
of the value it can be to planning for the future."
"Helps break out of the present mindset."
Some pre-reading material will be made available before the
workshop to allow participants to familiarise themselves with the
scenario development process.
Fee £130 AUA and ATEM members Fee £180 non-members
For a full course outline, programme and booking form visit
http://www.aua.ac.uk/events/courses/Foresight.htm
10-12 September, Telecoms two day conference, Manchester
7-8 November, Corporate planning forum, Manchester
14 November, Student issues in association with Pinsent Curtis Biddle
and SROC, Birmingham
28 November, AUA Annual lecture, London
For more information and to reserve your place please see the AUA
website
http://www.aua.ac.uk/events/seminars&conference.htm
Please email all enquiries to [log in to unmask]
Janice Cullen
AUA National Office
The University of Manchester
Oxford Road
Manchester, M13 9PL
Tel: 0161 275 2036
Fax: 0161 275 2036
www.aua.ac.uk
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