About The Program
The Notre Dame Foresight & Innovation Program is built on a simple but demanding premise — that the most valuable skill in business today is the ability to anticipate change and act on it before it becomes obvious.
We call our approach anticipatory innovation. It brings together two powerful disciplines: strategic foresight, which develops the ability to identify emerging signals and construct plausible futures, and design thinking, which transforms those futures into actionable opportunities.
The program has deep roots at Mendoza. For more than fifteen years our faculty have taught these methods to undergraduate, MBA, and Executive MBA students, conducted original foresight research with corporate partners and leading think tanks, and built tools that make foresight practice more accessible and effective.
Ten Years Hence — our signature thought leadership platform — has convened business leaders, innovators, and futurists in conversations about the forces shaping the decade ahead. We are currently reimagining that platform for a new era.
The work has never felt more urgent. Organizations across every sector are navigating compounding uncertainties — technological disruption, shifting geopolitical landscapes, changing workforce expectations, and the accelerating pace of AI development. Anticipatory innovation gives leaders a disciplined way to engage with that complexity rather than be overwhelmed by it