the qualitative approach was used employing the epistemological prospective, because this prospective fathoms

on rooting the knowledge for exploring factors, variables, and dimensions affecting the stimulation to use the

strategic foresight, and reduce the barriers to practicing this prospective in the lived reality thru stimulating out-

of-the-box thinking on the one hand, and increase the cognitive movement sensibly, analytically, critically,

synthetically, and evaluative on the other hand. Yet, as for the study sample, it was purposive consisting of

many studies, literature, documents, and documented experiments that were predetermined and purposively.

However, the research reached a number of conclusions most notably: that strategic awareness plays a

(synergistic) role to strategic foresight from the realism simulation perspective. This research depends on the

reliable knowledge already gathered from people of knowledge and books. Whereas, strategic awareness plays

the (influential) role of strategic awareness from the rationalism simulation perspective which uses logical

Key-Words: - strategic awareness, strategic foresight, business organizations synergistic role, influential role.

Received: April 22, 2023. Revised: October 4, 2023. Accepted: October 15, 2023. Published: October 27, 2023.

1 Introduction

Most business organizations live in troubled and

uncontrolled environments due to the dominance of

environmental uncertainty and scarcity of

information, multiple accelerating environmental

changes on the one hand, and on the other hand, the

and continuity in the field of competition. And in

order to cope with these challenges business

organizations are required to advance their strategic

Based on this, the current research seeks to

investigate the role of strategic awareness in

the ground; in an attempt to stimulate the said

organizations to adopt the approach of making the

future and manage its variables in a manner

realizing the possibility to deal with the

environmental uncertainty in realistically and

rationally to win the competition by way of

reinforcing the competitive position.

environmental waves of uncertainty and variation of

strategic arms of competition, [6]. Environmental

uncertainty represents a negative phenomenon that

materialized from the lacking of information on the

part of decision-makers about the relevant

environmental factors associated with the problem

put forward, and their inability to predict the

external variables, [7], [8]. This would create

difficulty in diagnosing the prospective variables

affecting the making of clear decisions, and thus,

makers with many images and varied solutions for

the alternative futures that could be taken up to re-

innovate the organizations and deal with the

environmental vagueness, and investing in the

futuristic opportunities, [14], [15].

foresight yet its uses are still very limited generally

speaking, and in the Arab business organizations in

particular for three reasons: first its novelty and

lacking of awareness of it ; because the interest in

intellectual data.

- Focusing on epistemological foresight and

its significance in analyzing the strategic thought

phenomena and combining its complex elements,

and this would contribute to increasing the area of

rooting the knowledge.

- Opening windows for addition and critique

and assessment to stimulate carrying out more

future research and studies with numerous images,

benefit from employing the results of this research

in applications, theoretical and practical practices.

The current research study's purpose at diagnosing

the role of strategic awareness in developing the

practice of strategic foresight, by realizing the

following objectives:

1. Identify justifications for using the

3. Describe the nature of probable relations

between strategic awareness and strategic foresight

by simulating it epistemologically to extract the

roles anticipated for development.

The paradigm is a factual formal structure for an

abstract philosophical fact that needs to be debated

on the ground to draw out the truth based on the

researcher self on the one hand, and the reality as

context in which it is placed, and how to deal with it

in this framework. And, this is the second

explaining the variables, in the strategic position

framework, [31].

that contribute to lowering the uncertainty and

environment vagueness, and, then looking up to

future trends and thus taking the prudent strategic

decisions that achieve the survival and growth of the

organization and develop its competitive capabilities

that enable them to add the unique value to the

clients, [29].

benefiting from their intellectual proposals, then the

- Activate the advanced rational processes at

the three levels: (individual, collective, and

organizational).

- Depend on perception, discrimination,

understanding, explanation, and vision.

- Develop the analytical and synthetic

capabilities of the strategic thinking system.

- Draw out the necessary data and deduce the

useful information that contributes to lowering the

environmental uncertainty levels and effecting a

- Practice a current role to deal with the

current environment data and a futuristic role as a

sensor for the probable changes.

- Deal with the internal and external

environment of the organization.

- Rationalize the process of decision-making by

adjusting the variables that impact the precision of

4. Analyzing the structure of strength in the chart of

stakeholders and their level of importance.

in the future which may cause troubles to them later

on.

- Fox strategy: most important properties:

hesitating, speedy boredom, desire to experiment

with every novelty, ability to re-arrange the thought

imparted with a new value, adoring the challenges

and complex problems, enjoying the solution of

puzzles, desire to work in vague environments and

high uncertainty circumstances.

the past chain with the present and future, capability

to change the direction and fast adjustment of the

track, effective follow-up of time and place, and

organizing the moment of swooping.

At the end of debating this theme, we answered the

two sub-questions (2+3) and thus the second

objective of this research has been realized.

This theme addresses the question of describing the

probable relations between strategic awareness and

strategic foresight according to the epistemological

perspective in an attempt to draw out the role played

by strategic awareness in developing strategic

foresight, the role herein means the patterns,

conducts, acts, practices taken over by individuals,

Source of this simulation: reliable knowledge that

was gathered from persons of knowledge, books,

leaders of organizations, and, this simulation seeks

to tackle the issues from multiple objective

viewpoints, and desire to provide the maximum

amount of information before issuing the judgments,

[39]. And after analyzing and simulating the reliable

optimism, or valueless guessing, in order to provide

the best pieces of evidence and information about

mutual effect, [44]. The best approach is to put

forward the idea of the blue ocean strategy which

contributed to updating the navigation compass of

organizations towards innovation and creation

because it's an authentic idea creating a group of

innovations, most importantly: value innovation,

new markets innovation in which nobody would

compete with you, and order-creating innovation,

and innovation of focusing on the value and cost at

know the cause, [24]. Because knowledge in

administrative fields is not innate but renewable and

progressive, already set forth through

methodological thinking and passed on by science

and circulated by training, and gained by practice,

[46]. And according to that, and as long as the

required to develop is the foresight practice as it

forms the actual problem of this research and the

most important variable in the study and analysis,

and because its results represent the sought future;

three levels: (individual, collective and

organizational awareness), and external: (social,

cultural, political, economic, legal, environmental

and technological awareness) and with triple-

reactive feature, the first between the internal levels;

and the second between the external levels; and the

third between the internal and external levels

individually one time and jointly another time.

However, the employment of such levels and

reactions in developing the present and solving its

-The previous results will increase the capability to

look up to the environmental sustainability future

events signs perceived by the individual, and self-

regularity which would forbid it from dealing with

the risks and innovation and impact his professional

path and personal future and make him captive of

the past, [52]. And the contribution of the

influencing role to reducing the worry towards the

future, and increasing the optimism towards it

would come by way of developing the

psychological and social factors relating to

regulatory phenomena, and such acceptance entails

training on the awareness in that the significant

associations might be present, and, stimulation to

solve the contradiction secondly; which points out

to bringing into being responses for the

contradictory stresses in a positive constructive

manner, so that not to involve the elimination of

stresses but instead to bring into being the means

that would realize the competitive demands or

taking into account the divergent ideas in a

the secondary question four is thereby given and

thus the third target of this research is realized.

makers about the environmental factors related to

the problem in question, and their inability to

predict the external variables.

- It was made sure of a need to shrink the

environmental uncertainty gap by relying on future

studies, especially strategic foresight.

- It was revealed that in spite of the importance of

the strategic foresight subject, its uses are still very

limited in general, and in Arab business

this could be realized by way of holding

brainstorming sessions, focus groups, cognitive

restiveness.

- Encouraging the practice of strategic foresight by

approving the interactive workshops in analyzing

the case studies, setting up scenarios, industrial

tourism, and training on the Delphi approach and

simulation.

- Activating the behavioral reserve for the

organization leaders, which would make them able

to take up the risk and deal with the environmental

empathy, foresight, stimulation, and bargaining.

- Attaining balance between strategic thinking

methodically in leading the forward-looking of the

organization and strategic planning practically in

administering the looking ahead, whereby this could

be attained by way of training on the problem-

solving strategy and decision making, and taking

over pioneering education.

- Investing in the relation of strategic awareness

with strategic foresight to activate the synergistic

restiveness.

- Investing in the relation of strategic awareness

with strategic foresight to activate the influential

role by way of developing creative thinking,

because this thinking would encourage the

discovery of new relations, adoption of true

solutions, and the ability to be sensitive to problems.

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