Scenarios and Strategic Foresight (2 º Sem 2019/2020)

This curricular unit aims to provide a solid background in Scenario Planning and Strategic Foresight, which is particularly relevant in the context of accelerating change, turbulence, uncertainty and unpredictability that characterizes current times. It favours tools that allow the mastery of operational aspects through simulations. In particular, this curricular unit provides students with the tools to:

- Understand Strategic Foresight theoretical and methodological bases and the various ways of trying to anticipate the future;
- Seize the concept of Scenario as an instrument for simulating possible futures;
- Understand the centrality of uncertainty as Scenarios' raw material;
- Understand how Foresight and Scenarios are key for corporate strategy;
- Operate key concepts of Strategic Foresight, Horizon Scanning and Scenarios;
- Apply the concepts and techniques that integrate the main methodologies of construction of Scenarios.