Critical thinking for sustainable business solutions

Instructor: Haider Ali

Intermediate Level • 10 hours to complete 3 weeks at 3 hours a week • Flexible Schedule

What You'll Learn

  • Understand how the creative ideation process functions to generate a broad range of relevant outcomes to your challenge domain and systems map.
  • Converge on a selection of the most impactful ideas to take forward for implementation and (in)validation.

Skills You'll Gain

Systems Thinking
Business Solutions
Creative Thinking
Innovation
Decision Making
Critical thinking
Corporate Sustainability
Ideation
Problem Solving

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 dive into the process of creative thinking to solve systemic challenges. You will learn how to generate a broad range of ideas to address your defined sustainability issues.

This week, you will learn how to converge your ideas into concrete concepts to take forward and test throughout the rest of the course.

This week, you will converge your thinking to make decisions about which ideas to take forward or to leave behind.

This week, you will refine the ideas you are considering taking forward and reflect on how this will affect your draft systems map from course 2 in the Coursera Specialization 'Sustainability for business success'.