An Interactive and Customised MoT Executive Course
The purpose of the course
The purpose of this course is to develop and present a customised course for clients in governments to assist them to effectively implement foresight and be able to use technology management tools to analyse and select technologies required to strengthen National Systems of Innovation.
A MoT Executive
What is a MoT (Management of Technology) executive? If you have a responsibility towards technology and strategy in your organisation you are a MoT executive. If you are using technology to execute the organisational strategy, this course is for you. This course applies to you whether you are an executive member of your organisation, or if you are a project manager, team member or an individual that have to contribute in making your organisation work by selecting technology, applying technology, developing technology, supporting or doing R&D, innovate, and guide others working in the science, technology and innovation field.
The scope of the course
The course is presented across the following levels:
- A training approach where personal knowledge of delegates is enriched by learning and applying what was learnt.
- Going beyond training only and start incorporating data from the delegates’ own organisation and let the learning and analysis of the client’s own environment merge, using the newly acquired future and technology management tools.
- Developing an organisational blueprint for implementation. While course learning takes place, own approaches are documented and blueprints to work from when back in the office are developed. This is then communicated with the other delegates at the end of the course.
Customisation
The course is customised to the client’s environment. Existing strategies, foresight reports, policy reviews and technology plans are incorporated in the course structure and discussions.
Course structure
The following are topics that are covered in the course:
- Future Thinking: A presentation on A few things we should know about tomorrow
- Overview of the training course, methodology and personal expectations
- Future thinking as the basis for foresight
- Generating different futures
- Future shaping factors for STI
- Review of existing foresight documents
- Foresight in STI in Sub-Saharan Africa
- Reviewing African scenarios
- Linking foresight and strategy
- Creating the client’s business space
- Business space mapping of future technologies
- Techno-economic life cycles
- Roadmapping technology futures
- Roadmapping the client’s technologies
- Future readiness
- Mapping the client’s future readiness for its roadmap
- The client’s broad future readiness
- An operating model following from the strategy
- Populate the operating model with the client’s information
- Human-machine interfaces and partnerships in future technology worlds
- Execution of the operating model
- National systems of innovation and industrialisation
- Session with South African foresight specialists
- Future leadership to take the client further
- Profile yourself as a future leader
- Report back by delegates on blueprints developed for their own area of work
- Wrap-up
Course Program
Course outcomes
- An introduction to future thinking in a fast changing world
- An understanding of how foresight is done
- Introduction to a toolkit and methodologies in using foresight to gain technology insights
- Thought models that will be practical to apply when back at the office
- Knowing how to link STI strategy and policy to an optimised National System of Innovation
- Having ways of measuring and evaluating the implementation of a future plan emanating from a foresight exercise
- The ability to apply at work what was learnt and also enrich colleagues with the power of foresight
- Becoming technology management executives that can put a broad spectrum of technology analysis activities together
- Personal as well as organisational improvement
Course Presenter
Dr Anthon Botha is the Course Presenter. He is an expert in future science and technology and business landscapes and roadmapping, research strategy, research infrastructure, research and development strategy development, R&D and innovation management, commercialisation of R&D outcomes, and high technology products and services.
Registration
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