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Lead sustainable business strategies for success
Instructor: Haider Ali
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Recommended experience
Intermediate level
You should have a foundational understanding of business principles and techniques. No sustainability experience is required.
Recommended experience
Intermediate level
You should have a foundational understanding of business principles and techniques. No sustainability experience is required.
Understand the mega-trends and drivers influencing the change in consumer preference and business landscapes towards sustainable impact outcomes
Design and implement new sustainable business concepts and business models grounded in People, Planet, Profit and Progress centric thinking and doing
Understand how the creative ideation process functions to generate a broad range of relevant outcomes to your challenge domain and systems map
Develop a comprehensive snapshot of your business model value from three levels of analysis: environmental, social and business
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This course equips you with the skills to explore and develop sustainable business strategies effectively to achieve positive outcomes and business success.
These skills will empower you to navigate the complexities of sustainable business, drive innovation, and create meaningful change within your organizations, projects and communities.
This course has a global focus and is suitable for:
Professionals currently working or aspiring to work in management or leadership roles
Those who want to build their knowledge from a personal perspective
Individuals thinking of starting a new business venture
Experienced managers who want to cement their knowledge
The skills you learn can be applied in a wide range of roles and industries, across large corporates, public or third sector, or small to medium enterprises (SMEs).
You’ll explore real world sustainable business challenges and undertake analysis in preparation for developing an action plan. You will identify, assess and refine solutions, along with honing problem solving and stakeholder engagement skills.
Via text-based resources and task books, you’ll gain comprehensive understanding and benefit from in-depth reference points as you formulate your ideas and plans.
Please be advised that some course materials are duplicated in 'Creating a Successful and Sustainable Business' , a course developed by The Open University and offered on The Open University platform. Consequently, we advise against enrolling on both.
Understand the mega-trends and drivers influencing the change in consumer preference and business landscapes towards sustainable impact outcomes.
Frame and scope new business challenges, strategically grounded in contributing to UN Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs).
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
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.
Appraise your value proposition to stakeholders and its likely impact in the real world across people, planet, profit and progress.
Develop a comprehensive snapshot of your business model value from three levels of analysis: environmental, social and business.
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This Specialization will take between 40 to 45 hours to complete, and you can learn at your own pace.
This is an intermediate level course. To be successful, you should have a foundational understanding of business principles and techniques. No sustainability experience is required.
Prior business knowledge (gained from work or study) will enhance and contextualise your learning. If you don’t have basic business knowledge you may find the content challenging.
Yes. Each course in this Specialization is intended to build on the previous course. We recommend that you take the courses in the following order:
Understanding the need for a sustainable business
Thinking about sustainable business systemically
Critical thinking for sustainable business solutions
From prototyping to validating business models
No, this is a non-credit bearing course.
Upon completing "Sustainability for Business Success," learners will gain a comprehensive set of skills designed to equip them to transform a business towards a more sustainable orientation. These skills collectively empower learners to drive innovation, gain the acceptance of stakeholders and create meaningful change within their organizations, projects and communities.
This course is completely online, so there’s no need to show up to a classroom in person. You can access your lectures, readings and assignments anytime and anywhere via the web or your mobile device.
If you subscribed, you get a 7-day free trial during which you can cancel at no penalty. After that, we don’t give refunds, but you can cancel your subscription at any time. See our full refund policy.
Yes! To get started, click the course card that interests you and enroll. You can enroll and complete the course to earn a shareable certificate, or you can audit it to view the course materials for free. When you subscribe to a course that is part of a Specialization, you’re automatically subscribed to the full Specialization. Visit your learner dashboard to track your progress.
Yes. In select learning programs, you can apply for financial aid or a scholarship if you can’t afford the enrollment fee. If fin aid or scholarship is available for your learning program selection, you’ll find a link to apply on the description page.
When you enroll in the course, you get access to all of the courses in the Specialization, and you earn a certificate when you complete the work. If you only want to read and view the course content, you can audit the course for free. If you cannot afford the fee, you can apply for financial aid.
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