Futures Thinking in Digital Business - DIG014AS2AE - Opinto-opas

Futures Thinking in Digital Business, 5 cr - DIG014AS2AE

Upcoming implementations

Futures Thinking in Digital Business DIG014AS2AE-3002 13.01.2025-14.03.2025 5 op (CONTACT, ...) +-
Campus

Porvoo Campus

Teaching language

English

Timing

13.01.2025 - 14.03.2025
Groups
- CONTACT
- BLENDED
- DBE4PCDBI
- EXCH
Teachers

Tommi Immonen, Pierantonio Silvani

Seats

15 - 50

Degree Programme

DIGIBBA Digital Business Innovations

R&D proportion

0.00 cr

Virtual proportion

0.00 cr

Evaluation scale

H-5

Current implementations

No ongoing implementations yet.

Past implementations

Futures Thinking in Digital Business DIG014AS2AE-3001 15.01.2024-15.03.2024 5 op (CONTACT, ...) +-
Teaching methods and instruction

Partly in classroom in Porvoo, partly remote learning on Teams.

Learning material and recommended literature

In Moodle.

Working life connections

Company or industry of students' choice.

Campus

Porvoo Campus

Exam dates and re-exam possibilities

Learning task as group work, defined at the beginning of the study period.

Teaching language

English

Internationality

International examples and benchmarking.

Timing

15.01.2024 - 15.03.2024

Learning assignments

Defined at the beginning of the study period.

Enrollment

02.01.2024 - 12.01.2024

Content scheduling

Meetings once a week in the classroom or on Teams.
Groups
- CONTACT
- BLENDED
- DBE4PCDBI
- EXCH
Alternative learning methods

Discussed at the beginning of the study period.

Teachers

Tommi Immonen, Teemu Ruohonen, Pierantonio Silvani

Seats

15 - 50

Further information

Defined in the course assignment.

Degree Programme

DIGIBBA Digital Business Innovations

R&D proportion

0.00 cr

Virtual proportion

0.00 cr

Evaluation scale

H-5

In this course you will learn the basics of futures thinking and foresight in technology-driven business context.

Upon successful completion of the course, the you are able to
- justify the importance of systematical foresight in digital business development,
- create futures intelligence by using versatile methods and sources,
- use it to explore and analyze digital business opportunities in different future horizons,
- observe the world critically and think creatively while acknowledging uncertainty.

Contents
- identification of current emerging technologies and trends
- elements of foresight in business
- digital transformation from past to present: technological and strategic trends
- types and sources of futures knowledge
- methods to create, analyze and use futures knowledge
- practical application of methods to specific digital business
- digital business development conceptualization

Depending on period, the course is possible to complete on contact, online or virtual implementation.

Recognition of Prior Learning: In case you already have skills and knowledge developed in this course you can execute the course by demonstrating your prior learning. Please contact a responsible teacher.

Work & Study: In case you have an option to develop your skills and knowledge in your work, it is possible to include this course as part of your work & study -plan. Please contact a responsible teacher.

Learning material offered by teachers is constantly updated. Course also includes plenty of information search done by students.

Would you like to develop your foresight capabilities in digital business? In this course you´ll learn how to create visions of futures and use it to explore alternative possibilities for future business in digital transformation and beyond. Besides you will stretch your thinking from possible futures even to preposterous and impossible ones. Futureproof your business skills - join the course!

No special prerequisites.

Student shows some usage of foresight methods and sources. Student can name some emerging technologies and trends, and present opportunities they pose for digital business.

Student shows relevant usage of foresight methods and sources. Student can name main emerging technologies and trends, and present opportunities they provide for a specific digital business and ponders critically their role in future.

Student shows versatile and proper usage of foresight methods and sources. Student can identify alternative emerging technologies, trends and opportunities, and evaluate their impact for a specific digital business. Moreover, student can conceptualize emerging opportunities for future digital business in different time horizons.