Postgraduate Course: Scenario Planning and Strategy (BUST11189)
Course Outline
| School | Business School |
College | College of Humanities and Social Science |
| Course type | Standard |
Availability | Not available to visiting students |
| Credit level (Normal year taken) | SCQF Level 11 (Postgraduate) |
Credits | 10 |
| Home subject area | Business Studies |
Other subject area | None |
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Taught in Gaelic? | No |
| Course description | The course objectives are as follows:
- To understand the nature and dynamics of industry and global environments
- To identify key driving issues in these environments over the medium to long term and to explore their interaction
- To build scenarios
- To test the scenarios for plausibility, internal consistency and creativity
- To understand the relationship between industry (scenario) analysis and resource allocation
- To apply the scenarios to policy/strategy and interpret the action consequences
- To work closely with business executives on 'live' projects where possible |
Entry Requirements (not applicable to Visiting Students)
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Other requirements | None |
| Additional Costs | textbooks |
Course Delivery Information
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Summary of Intended Learning Outcomes
Theoretical:
- Be familiar with recent research and literature on strategy and scenario thinking.
- Critically evaluate the strengths and weaknesses of both scenario planning methodologies and other medium/long-range strategic planning processes such as Delphi, morphological analysis and forecasting
Practice
- To gain competency in the use of a scenario planning methodology.
- Develop awareness for critical uncertainties in dynamic business environmental contexts and of strategic processes for gaining competitive advantage within these contexts.
- To understand how scenario planning approaches fit within wider strategic planning processes
- To learn to conduct resource-gap-analysis
Interpersonal/communication skills:
- To learn to self-manage and work effectively in groups.
- To learn about conducting a client based consultancy project.
- To improve report writing skills.
- To improve communication and presentation skills.
Cognitive
- To develop an awareness of the role that strategic assumptions and dominant logics play in our strategic planning processes.
- To develop an awareness of the role that hindsight plays in our strategic perceptions of the future and heuristics of improving the reception of weak signals of discontinuities to come. |
Assessment Information
Mid-semester in-class exam = 30% (Laptop Option, Adam House. Ground Floor)
Presentation = 10%
Executive Report = 60% |
Special Arrangements
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Additional Information
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Contacts
| Course organiser | Dr Robert Mackay
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Course secretary | Mr Stuart Mallen
Tel: (0131 6)50 8071
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