Effective use of Futures Ideas in Organization Strategy:

Since March 16, 1802 the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers has responded to changing defense requirements and played an integral part in the development of the country.

The current and future challenges of our nation require the use of strategic foresight and futures tools for the Corps to maximize its value to the nation. This presentation will share best practices used by the Corps to embed formal structure into the institutional fabric of the organization that includes a refresh system so the strategy remains informed by futures information, current and responsive. This session will also provide tools for identifying, refining, applying a decision criteria and injecting new thoughts into a strategic system. Attendees will also learn techniques for how they can cascade a strategic plan down through the various levels of an organization and identify critical processes they can use to make a futures informed strategic plan a reality.

Who should attend: Members who want to see a successful case study of using futures knowledge to make an ongoing executable strategy.

What they will learn: How to take cognitive ideas about the future, move them through decision points for further action, integrate them into strategy, make the strategy central to all levels of the organization, apply metrics to the strategy execution and have this as an ongoing process that remains refreshed and continually processes new ideas.

How this new knowledge can be applied: Organizational design and methodologies can be applied in any organization to establish means for futures knowledge to drive organizational strategy.

Ed Dillenschneider heads enterprise strategy for the United States Army Corps of Engineers. His team develops recommendations for corporate strategy across the enterprise. Washington, D.C.

Jerry W. Lucas, strategic planner; national program manager, USACE Campaign Plan, United Stated Corps of Engineers, Washington D.C.