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DSMBA-6400-1: Strategic Foresight (elective)

Fall 2025

Subject: Graduate Design Strategy
Type: Seminar
Delivery Mode: In-Person
Level: Graduate

Course Dates: September 02, 2025 — December 15, 2025
Meetings:
09/06: Sat 9:00AM-05:00PM, Double Ground - N200
09/27: Sat 9:00AM-05:00PM, Double Ground - N200
10/25: Sat 9:00AM-05:00PM, Double Ground - N200
11/15: Sat 9:00AM-05:00PM, Double Ground - N200
12/13: Sat 9:00AM-05:00PM, Double Ground - N200
Instructor: Erin Bradner

Units: 3.0
Enrolled: 15/20

Description:

Foresight is both a personal and a civilizational capacity to make sense of the dynamics of change and the weights of stability. The payoff for this enhanced comprehension is better systems design and better decision-making. Students will learn concepts and tools to integrate seeming dichotomies-personal/social, change/stability, local/global, near-term/long-term-into holistic, system-level designs. Students will become highly proficient at the direction and use of specific strategic foresight techniques including systems thinking, horizon scanning, alternative futures, incasting, scenario planning, visioning, and causal layered analysis.

Pre-Requisites and Co-Requisites:

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