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IB551T: FUTURE THINKING (2022-2023)

Last modified: 31 Jul 2023 11:19


Course Overview

None.

Course Details

Study Type Postgraduate Level 5
Term Second Term Credit Points 15 credits (7.5 ECTS credits)
Campus Aberdeen Sustained Study No
Co-ordinators
  • Mrs Catherine Andrews

What courses & programmes must have been taken before this course?

  • Any Postgraduate Programme (Studied)

What other courses must be taken with this course?

None.

What courses cannot be taken with this course?

Are there a limited number of places available?

No

Course Description

This course aims to:

• Provide an appreciation of why scenario thinking is needed, what it is based on and its impact on understanding business or policy needs.

• Provide the required management thinking skills and experience of developing plausible scenarios based on your own uncertainties and insights as well as other delegate’s uncertainties and insights.

• Provide a critical understanding of the complex nature of the global business environment and to encourage engagement in a process of multi-future thinking.


Details, including assessments, may be subject to change until 30 August 2024 for 1st term courses and 20 December 2024 for 2nd term courses.

Summative Assessments

Oral Presentation: Individual

Assessment Type Summative Weighting 40
Assessment Weeks Feedback Weeks

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Assessment on Week 8 of course. Feedback provided Week 11.

Learning Outcomes
Knowledge LevelThinking SkillOutcome
ConceptualApplyArticulate what parts of the process distinguish scenario planning from other approaches to planning.
FactualUnderstandDifferentiate between scenarios and predictions or forecasts.
FactualUnderstandDescribe how scenario planning approaches can be applied to strategic management problems.
ProceduralAnalyseDemonstrate an appreciation of a range of challenges facing organisations operating in the twenty-first century.

Essay

Assessment Type Summative Weighting 60
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Assessment on Week 8 of course. Feedback provided Week 11.

Word Count 2000
Learning Outcomes
Knowledge LevelThinking SkillOutcome
ConceptualApplyArticulate what parts of the process distinguish scenario planning from other approaches to planning.
FactualUnderstandDifferentiate between scenarios and predictions or forecasts.
FactualUnderstandDescribe how scenario planning approaches can be applied to strategic management problems.
ProceduralAnalyseDemonstrate an appreciation of a range of challenges facing organisations operating in the twenty-first century.

Formative Assessment

There are no assessments for this course.

Resit Assessments

Reflective Report

Assessment Type Summative Weighting 100
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Learning Outcomes
Knowledge LevelThinking SkillOutcome
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Course Learning Outcomes

Knowledge LevelThinking SkillOutcome
FactualUnderstandDifferentiate between scenarios and predictions or forecasts.
FactualUnderstandDescribe how scenario planning approaches can be applied to strategic management problems.
ConceptualApplyArticulate what parts of the process distinguish scenario planning from other approaches to planning.
ProceduralAnalyseDemonstrate an appreciation of a range of challenges facing organisations operating in the twenty-first century.

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