Course Annotation

"Foresight technology in agribusiness"

Recommended for master's degree students 

The aim of this course – develop strategic thinking, deepen understanding of enterprise strategy, strengthen diagnostic abilities and form skills in managing strategies in agribusiness, master technical skills and techniques related to the use of modern methods for identifying directions of agribusiness development as an element of forming a long-term enterprise development strategy, develop a set of practical tasks, the solution of which ensures that applicants acquire a holistic system of skills to perform typical tasks of professional activity as an economist and manager in the field of strategic management.

The interdisciplinary connections of this discipline.  "Foresight Technologies in Agribusiness" is a logical continuation of the course "Strategic Management" and requires close connection with other academic disciplines of the master's level of higher education: "Managerial Economics", "Agrarian Policy and Agribusiness", "Economics and Organization of Agribusiness", "Global Economy", "Cost Management in Agribusiness", "Marketing Management in Agribusiness", "Fundamental and Technical Analysis in Agribusiness" and "Management of Strategic Changes in Agribusiness".

Learning outcomes, teaching methods, and assessment tools: 

Table 1 – Teaching methods and assessment tools for the course "Foresight technology in agribusiness" in relation to learning outcomes  

Course Topics

1. Theoretical foundations of foresight technology.

2. Methodology for conducting foresight of the economic development of an enterprise and industries.

3. Detailing the main methods for developing foresights of the economic development of an enterprise.

4. Development of the main drivers of the program for the future development of an enterprise.

5. Development of enterprise development scenarios.

6. System of strategic decision-making based on foresight scenarios.

Teaching Staff  

Assoc. Prof. Oleksandr Sadovnyk– candidate of economic sciences, associate professor, department of business economics and entrepreneurship, e-mail: sadovnyk@kneu.edu.ua

 Assoc. Prof. Andrii Samoilenko– candidate of economic sciences, associate professor, department of business economics and entrepreneurship, e-mail: andrii.samoilenko@kneu.ua

Recommended Literature 

1. Fedulova L.I. Foresight: modern methodology of technological forecasting / L. I. Fedulova // Economics and Forecasting. – 2008. No. 3. – P. 106-120.

2. Fedulova L.I. Foresight: modern methodology of technological forecasting / L. I. Fedulova // Economics and Forecasting. – 2008. No. 4. – P. 124-138

3. Kirnos I. O. Foresight as a tool of state strategic planning / I. O. Kirnos // Innovative Economics. - 2013. - No. 6. - P. 31-37.

4. Bogachev S. Foresight as a methodology of designing the future / S. Bogachev, O. Solovtsova // East. - 2013. - No. 5. - P. 14-17.

5. Rulitskaya K.M. The feasibility of using foresight to forecast the development of domestic agricultural formations / K. M. Rulitskaya // Bulletin of NTU "KhPI". - 2013. - No. 53. - P. 121-124.

6. Kravchenko T. A. The feasibility of using foresight methodology in developing a Unified Comprehensive Strategy for the Development of Agriculture and Rural Areas for 2015–2020. / T. A. Kravchenko // Aspects of Public Administration. - 2015. - No. 4. - P. 121-128.

7. Foresight of the Ukrainian Economy: Medium-Term (2015–2020) and Long-Term (2020–2030) Time Horizons / Scientific Project Leader, Academician of the National Academy of Sciences of Ukraine M. Z. Zgurovsky // International Council for Science (ICSU); Committee on System Analysis at the Presidium of the National Academy of Sciences of Ukraine; National Technical University of Ukraine "Kyiv Polytechnic Institute"; Institute of Applied Systems Analysis of the NAS of Ukraine and the Ministry of Education and Science of Ukraine; World Data Center for Geoinformatics and Sustainable Development. — Kyiv: NTUU "KPI", 2015. — 136 p.

8. A single comprehensive strategy for the development of agriculture and rural areas in Ukraine for 2015–2020 [Electronic resource]. –Access mode: http://minagro.gov.ua/node/16025.

9. Strategy for the development of the agricultural sector "3+5" [Electronic resource]. –Access mode: http://minagro.gov.ua/apk?nid=21447

10. Sadovnyk O. V. Foresight of the product and market strategy of agricultural enterprises of Ukraine / O. V. Sadovnyk // International Scientific-Practical Conference Modern Transformation of Economics and Management in the Era of Globalization: Conference Proceedings. January 29, 2016. Klaipeda: Baltija Publishing. P.170-174.

11. Sadovnyk O.V. Development of foresight and its impact on forecasting the product and market strategy of agribusiness in Ukraine / O. V. Sadovnyk // Strategy of economic development of Ukraine: collection of scientific works. – K.: KNEU, 2016 – Issue 39 — p. 126-136

12. Sadovnyk O.V. Development of long-term budgets of the enterprise's activities based on the foresight of the product and market strategy / O. V. Sadovnyk // Management accounting at agribusiness enterprises: state, prospects and development priorities: collection of scientific works. – K.: KNEU, 2016 — p. 94-99.

13. Sadovnyk O.V. Foresight of agribusiness development in Ukraine: cooperatives / O. V. Sadovnyk // Cooperative readings: 2019 year: collection of scientific works. – Zhytomyr.: KNEU, 2019 — p. 126-130.

14. Sadovnyk O.V. Agrotrading as an integral component of the development of the economy of agribusiness enterprises // Enterprise economics: theory and practice. / State Higher Educational Institution "KNEU named after Vadym Hetman", – Kyiv: KNEU, 2020. – P. 53–54.