About the course
Organizations today compete for markets and legitimacy in a complex, dynamic, and fast-paced context. This makes the generation and management of knowledge about the future an increasingly important part of business strategizing and acting on anticipation. Future success and the ability to thrive in tomorrow's rapidly evolving business landscape requires to stop reacting to changes, but it demands proactive thinking and action to shape it.
The course Strategic Foresight is for you being a strategy developer, decision-maker, business developer, or innovation manager.
With advanced methods from the foresight toolbox, you will be able to build resiliency and agility into your organization, staff, products, and services to redesign processes, people, and structures to prepare them for thriving in- and impacting on- the future by advancing the quality of strategic thinking, analysis, and planning.
Five constructive Fridays
The course also provides a great opportunity to connect with a diverse group of high-caliber professionals from various industries, in an expanding national network of practitioners trained in foresight.
The convenient schedule with five consecutive Fridays during the fall semester allows you to balance your professional commitments while investing in your future.
Session 1: Prediction, forecasting, backcasting, thinking in systems.
Session 2: Trend auditing, horizon scanning, black swans.
Session 3: Innovation foresight, technology roadmapping, Delphi, foresight radars.
Session 4: Scenario planning and business model stress-testing.
Session 5: Business wargaming.
Build your own case scenario
Throughout the course you will work on your own case scenario (or that of a colleague if you prefer) adjusted to the case organization, industry, and professional situation, following a hands-on philosophy.
This can anchor strategic foresight practices directly into your work, your strategies, and your organization.
This is what you learn:
- to understand how different foresight tools work.
- to decide which tool is appropriate in a situation.
- to adapt the tools and techniques to a case.
- to present recommendations rooted in a futures analysis.
- to combine strategic foresight tools with traditional planning and innovation tools.
- to reflect upon the nature and modes of the future.
Why choose this course?
You will be presented with the best and most useful models for strategic foresight – backed by research- and you will gain practical experience in choosing and using the models in your strategy work.
You will gain actionable knowledge and real-world examples through case studies, discussions with your fellow participants, and hands-on exercises. Working on your own case scenario adjusted to your own industry and professional situation will provide immediate value.
Fakta om kurset
Undervisning: Kurser afholdes Jernbanegade 3B, 4000 Roskilde.
Kursusdatoer i 2024 er fredagene 12.01, 19.01, 26.01, 02.02 og 09.02.
Niveau: master, 5 ECTS
Ansøgningsfrist: 10. januar 2024
Undervisningssprog: Engelsk / Dansk
Pris: 16.500 kr.
Praktiske oplysninger
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Erhvervserfaring:
Mindst 2 års relevant erhvervserfaring efter afslutning af adgangsgivende uddannelse. Relevant erhvervserfaring er arbejde indenfor forretningsudvikling, strategi og analyse, teknologi, politik (policy), salg og markedsføring, bæredygtig og digital omstilling.Uddannelse:
Ansøgeren skal minimum have bestået en af følgende uddannelser:
Bacheloruddannelser:
- En bachelor- eller professionsbacheloruddannelse indenfor det humanistiske, samfundsvidenskabelige, sundhedsvidenskabelige, naturvidenskabelige eller tekniske område.
Diplomuddannelser:
- Pædagogisk diplomuddannelse
- HD
- Diplom i ledelse
- Offentlig forvaltning og administration
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Kurset kombinerer en learning-by doing-filosofi med diskussion om, hvordan strategisk og innovationsledelse skal ændres for at opbygge konkurrencefordele i det nye århundrede.
Forelæsninger og gruppearbejde i klassesessioner vil give de studerende både teoretisk og praksis ballast – herunder viden om hvordan metoder anvendes i praksis. Efter hver session vil deltagerne implementere det de har lært i deres organisation, og herefter rapporterer tilbage om deres resultater og erfaringer.
Eksamen:
Skriftlig hjemmeopgave: Refleksioner over hvordan kursets tillærte værktøjer konkret kan anvendes i egen organisation.
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Kursusdatoer
Fredag 12. januar 2024
Fredag 19. januar 2024
Fredag 26. januar 2024
Fredag 02. februar 2024
Fredag 09. februar 2024
Sted
Undervisningen foregår ved Roskilde Station:
Jernbanegade 3B, 4000 Roskilde
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Modulet koster: 16.500
Hvis din arbejdsplads skal betale, så oplyser du blot din arbejdsplads adresse og evt. EAN-nr. og/eller PO-nr. på ansøgningsskemaet.
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Session 1: Prediction, forecasting, backcasting, thinking in systems.
Session 2: Trend auditing, horizon scanning, black swans.
Session 3: Innovation foresight, technology roadmapping, Delphi, foresight radars.
Session 4: Scenario planning and business model stress-testing.
Session 5: Business wargaming.
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Matthew J. Spaniol is an Asst. Prof in the Dept. of People and Technology at Roskilde University.
He has over 15 years in consulting and researching foresight tools across industries such as maritime, construction, renewable energy, cybersecurity, and emerging technologies.
He has published numerous papers in peer-reviewed journals such as Long Range Planning, Technological Forecasting and Social Change, and Futures. He is on the editorial board at the journal Futures and Foresight Science.
He has a Youtube channel where he curates foresight paper presentations, and is occasionally active on LinkedIn and Twitter.
Kontakt
Modulansvarlige
Matthew Jon Spaniol
Kontakt
Mastersekretariatet på Institut for Mennesker og Teknologi
imt-master@ruc.dk
Tlf.: 4674 3030
Ansøgning
Ansøgningsfrist: 10. januar 2024
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