Providing a way to prioritize Strategic Options Extracted from the Strategic Foresight Process Based on the Opinions of the Army Experts of the Islamic Republic of Iran
Rapid and wide-ranging environmental changes have challenged traditional systems of strategy making, and strategic foresight has been increasingly welcomed by organizations due to flexibility against alternative futures. This research seeks to develop the process of creating strategy in strategic fo...
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| Format: | Article |
| Language: | English |
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Command and Staff University
2017-11-01
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| Series: | آیندهپژوهی دفاعی |
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| Online Access: | http://www.dfsr.ir/article_32903_1a4765e39f0db22c06ae028137e4265e.pdf |
| Summary: | Rapid and wide-ranging environmental changes have challenged traditional systems of strategy making, and strategic foresight has been increasingly welcomed by organizations due to flexibility against alternative futures. This research seeks to develop the process of creating strategy in strategic foresight based on the opinions of the military experts of the Islamic Republic of Iran and is a developmental research in terms of purpose. The overall research method is qualitative. First, based on the analysis and interpretation of literature and research background some steps presented to prioritize strategic options in strategic foresight. Then, with the help of Delphi technique, the validity of the list of provided steps was tested. The scientific and applied acceptance of all the steps and their general goodness of fit confirmed by the convergence of academic and military experts in Delphi's second phase. In the end, based on the presented steps, it had been suggested to commanders and strategist of the military to use this method to prioritize strategic options in the process of creating strategy for military units. The innovation of this research is to provide a way to select the ultimate strategy in strategic foresight, which, with a time-integrated approach, evaluates and prioritizes strategic options simultaneously in three short, medium, and long-term horizons. In this way, in addition to the "outcomes of each option" and "the probability of collecting those outcomes", "synchronization of options" and "outcomes time", are also intertwined in the prioritization of options. |
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| ISSN: | 2588-428X 2645-7172 |