The Strategic foresight major is designed to train professionals to be a driving force in organisational transformation (digital transformation, business model transformation, innovation, etc.). More and more of today’s businesses are creating an internal structure whose role is to help the organisation to plan ahead and take decisions in a turbulent environment.

Swisscom, for example, has its own think-tank, e-foresight, whose aim is to anticipate transformations in the global financial sector. On the international stage, the oil company, Shell, was one of the first to create a foresight team, which regularly produces possible future scenarios in the energy sector. Several supranational institutions, such as the OECD or the World Economic Forum, have adopted similar strategies, by creating ad hoc groups, such as the OECD’s Government Foresight Community.

While there is currently no other course of this kind in Switzerland, there is no doubt that students who have been trained in foresight will be increasingly sought after by organisations that need to be able to plan ahead and make decisions in a turbulent environment.