Studying at an academic course on Strategic Foresight may bring you such outcomes: 1) Designing an environmental scanning system; 2) Creating a baseline forecast of trends for an organization; 3) Leading a departmental team to develop strategic plans; 4) Leading a scenario learning process for a leadership team; and 5) Presenting their professional specialization, foresight practices and their moral values in appropriate media.

These tools may be used to realize each outcome respectively: 1) Horizon scanning, trend analysis and extrapolation; 2) Scenarios, Delphi studies, and Driver analysis; 3) Vision building, Modeling, Simulation and Road Maps; 4) Scenarios and Brain Storming; and 5) Media work and analysis.

Tangible results for us as balanced practicing futurists can be: 1) Developing observatory sites in our desired scanning jobs; 2) Using different combinations of methods according to our foresight needs; 3) Using long-view tools for strategic planning; 4) Offering alternative futures for a topic of study; and 5) Crafting ideas into media objects.    

Reference:

Master of Arts in Strategic Foresight, Retrieved from:

http://www.regent.edu/acad/global/academics/ma_strategic_foresight/home.cfm