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This course is part of Sustainable Business Strategy for Future Leaders Specialization
Instructor: Haider Ali
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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.
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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.
8 readings2 assignments1 discussion prompt
This week, you will learn how to converge your ideas into concrete concepts to take forward and test throughout the rest of the course.
11 readings2 assignments1 discussion prompt
This week, you will converge your thinking to make decisions about which ideas to take forward or to leave behind.
5 readings3 assignments1 discussion prompt
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'.
4 readings2 assignments2 discussion prompts
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