Strategic Planning Consulting
Welcome to the APEC Center for Technology Foresight
The APEC Center for Technology Foresight aims to develop and diffuse foresight capability across APEC. Foresight helps governments, businesses and organisations to establish directions, choose priorities and manage change. Since its launch in February 1998, the CTF has completed six international foresight studies, designed and supported many more studies at national and organisational level, co-hosted an international foresight conference and provided training and consultancy to many APEC member economies. The CTF also runs an APEC Technology Foresight Network, a global database of foresight practitioners, projects and publications (see: http://www.apectf.net) and yearly foresight trainining workshop.
The CTF is a project of the Industrial Science and Technology Working Group of APEC. It is hosted by the National Science and Technology Development Agency of Thailand.
For further information, see: http://www.apecforesight.org
Foresight Strategic Planning and Consulting 2004
“Tools for Managing the Future: A Portfolio Approach” 23-27 February 2004
An international foresight training workshop, held in Bangkok, Thailand. Click here for detail information.
Foresight Strategic Planning and Consulting 2002-3
“Tools for Managing the Future: A Portfolio Approach” 17-21 February 2003
An international foresight training workshop, held in Bangkok, Thailand. Click here for summary report.
“Tools for Managing the Future: A Portfolio Approach” 18-22 February 2002
An international foresight training workshop, held in Bangkok, Thailand. Click here for summary report.
"Technology Roadmapping Training Workshop" 10-12 September 2003, this workshop is supported by Industry Canada. Click for more information
APEC Center for Technology Foresight (CTF) was invited to facilitate a three-day foresight strategic planning consulting workshop for key research staff to look for plausible futures of research and development paths for the Universiti Sains Malaysia (USM) in the next 10 years. The program had run from March 6 to 8 at the Hotel Equitorial, Penang.
Technology Roadmapping 2001
The Center provided a half-day strategic planning consulting training workshop, for the Center team and others, led by Professor Ron Johnston, Executive Director, Australian Center for Innovation and International Competitiveness Limited (ACIIC), University of Sydney, Australia on December 12 2001. There are 32 participants from NSTDA, Ministry of Science, Technology, and Environment, and a participant from private sector. Professor Ron Johnston conducted the workshop including presentation lecture on the Technology Roadmapping.
Foresight Training 2001
The Center was invited to provide a 4-day foresight strategic planning consulting training workshop for officers of the Ministry of Science, Technology and Environment of Malaysia, from 7-10 May 2001. This formed part of MOSTE’s preparation for a national foresight program.
The Center also was invited to conduct strategic planning consulting Technology Foresight Workshop on “Food Processing in Vietnam” for National Institute of Science and Technology Policy (NISTPASS), Ministry of Science, Technology and Environment (MOSTE), October 22-25, Hai Phong City, Vietnam. This strategic planning consulting training workshop was a result of the “APEC Symposium on Technology Foresight”, April 23, in Hanoi and it was a starting point of the Technology Foresight activities in Vietnam.
Foresight Training 2000
The Center organized a general technology foresight strategic planning consulting training workshop with participants from 6 APEC economies in 1998. However, it was regrettably unable to repeat this success in the following years due to the economic downturn, since such events need to be self-financing. The Center concentrated instead on training sessions in one economy, with three one-day events in Thailand and one in Malaysia. Within Thailand, Center staff conducted a scenario training session using the theme of “Food Safety” for students at Mahidol University’ s Department of Public Health. In Malaysia, a scenario-planning training was conducted for the Construction Industry Development Board, who was in the process of developing a Master-Plan for the national construction industry. In addition, visitors from Vietnam who were involved in setting up a national foresight unit, spent a week at the Center to learn about foresight and observe a scenario-planning workshop.
Foresight Training 1999
In 1999, the Center shifted its training focus towards organizing/facilitating training at a national level. The Center provided a scenario-planning and strategic planning consulting training at the Faculty of Public Health, Mahidol University on the theme of ‘Obesity’. In addition, two one-day training sessions were organized for planners from various Thai organizations, titled “Foresighting to Create a Learning Organization”. These were facilitated by Professor Sohail Inyatullah, Honorary Visiting Fellow at the Communication Centre, Queensland University of Technology and Co-Director of the Noosa Institute for the Future, Australia. These seminars were a ‘toolbox approach’ to using methods from futures research, including Scenario-Planning, Causal Layered Analysis, Emerging Issues Analysis, Visioning, and Backcasting.
Foresight Training 1998
The Center’s first strategic planning consulting training workshop, held on the occasion of the launch of the Center, attracted 30 participants from 6 APEC member economies: China, Indonesia, Malaysia, Singapore, Chinese Taipei and Thailand. The workshop was limited to this number in order to maximize the learning opportunities of each participant. The workshop included an introduction to foresight, planning and implementing a foresight project, wand ‘hands-on’ experience of 2 key foresight techniques - Delphi and Scenario-Planning. The workshop was facilitated by the Director, Prof Greg Tegart and members of the Center’s International Advisory Board: Prof Ron Johnston (Australia), Dr Taeyoung Shin (Korea) and Mr Terutaka Kuwahara (Japan).
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