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Strategic Planning & Foresight Department

The Strategic Planning & Foresight Department trains students to build long-term strategy for energy research and commercialization and to design organizational resource allocation. Students gain hands-on project experience in TRL assessment, competitive intelligence, and decarbonization-pathway roadmapping while mastering portfolio-optimization techniques, graduating and heading into the field armed with firsthand experience designing institutional strategic roadmaps and sitting in on resource-allocation decisions for research and commercialization.

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Field-based Curriculum · 14

This department's curriculum is built directly on the GeoVerse Lab research fields its professors hold — click a field to see how it is taught.

Technology Readiness Level Assessment & Systems Engineering Risk
Technology Readiness Level Assessment & Systems Engineering Risk
Students learn the logic of NASA's technology-readiness scale and learn to asses…
Simon Ramo
Portfolio Theory & R&D Portfolio Risk Management
Portfolio Theory & R&D Portfolio Risk Management
Students learn the covariance logic of Markowitz portfolio theory and transplant…
Harry Markowitz
Organizational & Competitive Intelligence
Organizational & Competitive Intelligence
From Wilensky's study of organizational intelligence, students analyse why organ…
Harold Wilensky
Quality Benchmarking & Best-Practice Comparison
Quality Benchmarking & Best-Practice Comparison
In Juran's quality tradition, students learn benchmarking as discovery and trans…
Joseph M. Juran
Balanced Scorecard & Strategic Performance Management
Balanced Scorecard & Strategic Performance Management
Students learn the balanced scorecard linking financial results to their leading…
David P. Norton
SWOT Analysis & Situational Strategy Formulation
SWOT Analysis & Situational Strategy Formulation
From the원형 born in SRI's long-range planning practice, students learn SWOT and f…
Albert S. Humphrey
Corporate R&D Management & Total Quality Strategy
Corporate R&D Management & Total Quality Strategy
Using Galvin's Motorola as the exemplar, students learn the managerial principle…
Robert Galvin
Decision Analysis & Strategic Risk Assessment
Decision Analysis & Strategic Risk Assessment
Students learn Raiffa's decision analysis — decomposing alternatives, uncertaint…
Howard Raiffa
Net-Zero Strategy Leadership & Decarbonization Pathway Governance
Net-Zero Strategy Leadership & Decarbonization Pathway Governance
Linking carbon budgets, pathways and transition plans to the IPCC assessment tra…
Rajendra K. Pachauri
Science Policy & Institutional R&D Ecosystem Building
Science Policy & Institutional R&D Ecosystem Building
Centred on Terman's Stanford–Silicon Valley case, students learn the institution…
Frederick Terman
Corporate Strategy & Long-Range Planning History
Corporate Strategy & Long-Range Planning History
From Chandler's Strategy and Structure, students analyse how large firms came to…
Alfred D. Chandler Jr.
Strategy Formulation & Business Policy Model
Strategy Formulation & Business Policy Model
Following Andrews's business-policy model, students train in the case method of …
Kenneth R. Andrews
Business Portfolio Management & the Growth-Share Matrix
Business Portfolio Management & the Growth-Share Matrix
Through Henderson's experience curve and growth-share matrix, students learn to …
Bruce Henderson
Technology S-Curve & Diffusion Forecasting
Technology S-Curve & Diffusion Forecasting
From Verhulst's logistic curve to the Fisher–Pry substitution model, students es…
Pierre François Verhulst