Program Overview
The Program aims at exploring and institutionalizing the concepts of future foresight and planning in organizations. A rich program content that includes a variety of tools and knowledge of the future will enable graduates of public sector and business leaders and other professionals to improve their strategic thinking and planning and improve the way they make future-related decisions and deal with ensuing change. Students will also be able to develop professional expertise in terms of managing and leading future foresight and strategic planning projects.

The program would focus on:

• Conceptual issues.
• Methods and problem solving.
• Domain specific applications.
• Possible responses to the future.

The methods would include:

• Quantitative approaches to long term and short term foresight.
• Qualitative methods in long term foresight.
• Synthesis, integration, and application of the methods (Scenario Planning and development).

Mission Statement

1. Develop an understanding of modern concepts and methodologies of future foresight.
2. Deploy effective future foresight knowledge and skills in managing strategic planning and decision support in organizations.
3. Develop expertise in future foresight to enable effective decision-making for organizations.
4. Analyze and address with real life issues as future thinkers and developers of ideas, strategies and solutions.

Program Goals

• Develop crucial future foresight skills such as systems thinking, scenario planning and strategic planning
• Couple future foresight skills with a literature review to produce a viable piece of research

Program Learning Outcomes

1. Formulate an organizational strategic future foresight framework

2. Evaluate the role of scenario planning in an organization and explain its relation to strategic planning, forecasting, extrapolation and other processes.

3. Analyze and apply in-depth comprehension of relevant leadership and change requirements needed for formulating and delivering successful foresight decisions.

4. Examine and compare future foresight methods including scenario planning, environmental scanning and envisioning for evaluating various decision support systems.

5. Design and develop innovative strategic foresight plans for institutional change that will lead to the development of sustainable futures

6. Analyze and interpret research that relates to future foresight and planning

The program is comprised of 33 semester credit hours which students must successfully complete.

The table below shows the program structure of Master of Science in Professional Studies: Future Foresight and Planning.

To graduate, students need to complete all the requirements as listed in the curriculum. Click here for the graduation policy.

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• Design an organizational future foresight strategy framework.

• Determine where scenario planning is applicable to the organization, its environment and its relationship to strategic planning, forecasting and other processes.

• Evaluate leadership and change requirements needed for designing and delivering successful foresight processes.

• Apply future foresight methods including scenario planning, environmental scanning and envisioning to deal with various decision support situations.

• Develop innovative strategic plans for institutional change that will lead to the development of sustainable futures.

• Conduct research that relates to future foresight and planning.