•   Futures Thinking in Digital Business DIG014AS2AE-3002 13.01.2025-14.03.2025  5   (CONTACT, ...) +-
    Learning objectives
    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.
    Starting level and linkage with other courses
    No special prerequisites.
    Contents
    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
    Assessment criteria
    Assessment criteria - grade 1
    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.
    Assessment criteria - grade 3
    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.
    Assessment criteria - grade 5
    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.
    Further information
    When the implementation type of the course is contact, online or blended it is required that the student is present during those teaching hours that are marked in the study schedule. If you are absent more than 25 %, your grade will be lowered by one. If you are absent more than 50 %, the course is failed.
    Teaching methods and instruction

    Partly in classroom in Porvoo, partly online 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

    13.01.2025 - 14.03.2025

    Learning assignments

    Defined at the beginning of the study period.

    Enrollment

    02.01.2025 - 10.01.2025

    Content scheduling

    Meetings once a week in the classroom or online on Teams.

    Groups
    • CONTACT
    • BLENDED
    • DBE4PCDBI
    • EXCH
    Alternative learning methods

    Discussed at the beginning of the study period.

    Teachers

    Tommi Immonen, 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