Thinking about sustainable business systemically

Instructor: Haider Ali

Intermediate Level • 1 week to complete at 10 hours a week • Flexible Schedule

What You'll Learn

  • ✓Go beyond the limitations of existing methodologies and business design approaches to serve complex ecosystem needs and problems
  • ✓Design and implement new sustainable business concepts and business models grounded in People, Planet, Profit and Progress centric thinking and doing

Skills You'll Gain

Stakeholder Management
Complex Problem Solving
Environment and Resource Management
Process Mapping
Corporate Sustainability
Business Strategies
Interviewing Skills
Business Systems Analysis
Sustainability Reporting
Systems Thinking
Data Collection

Shareable Certificate

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Outcomes

  • Learn new concepts from industry experts
  • Gain a foundational understanding of a subject or tool
  • Develop job-relevant skills with hands-on projects
  • Earn a shareable career certificate

There are 4 modules in this course

This week, you will learn about the benefits of a circular economy and examine what steps you should take to frame a specific challenge before you attempt to solve it.

This week, you will address complex issues within multi-stakeholder settings, often with divergent perspectives. You will learn how to create, map and analyse problems across stakeholders using systems thinking to understand complex dynamics and their interrelatedness across your chosen challenge space.

This week, you will pick up threads from the three preceding lessons and move on to building a systems map related to your challenge space.

This week, you will decide what to include and exclude from your map given the underlying complexities of your stakeholder ecosystem, and decide where you might need to intervene within your system.