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Sustainable Business Strategy for Future Leaders Specialization
The Open University

Sustainable Business Strategy for Future Leaders Specialization

Lead sustainable business strategies for success

Haider Ali

Instructor: Haider Ali

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Flexible schedule
Learn at your own pace

What you'll learn

  • 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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October 2024

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Specialization - 4 course series

What you'll learn

  • 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).

Skills you'll gain

Category: Corporate Sustainability
Category: Stakeholder Engagement
Category: Complex Problem Solving
Category: Business Architecture
Category: Environmental Social And Corporate Governance (ESG)
Category: Systems Thinking
Category: Business Continuity
Category: Innovation
Category: Business Strategies
Category: Environment and Resource Management
Category: Business Ethics

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

Category: Systems Thinking
Category: Business Systems
Category: Stakeholder Management
Category: Interviewing Skills
Category: Stakeholder Communications
Category: Strategic Thinking
Category: Process Mapping
Category: Complex Problem Solving
Category: Systems Analysis
Category: Stakeholder Engagement
Category: Business Systems Analysis
Category: Corporate Sustainability
Category: Data Collection
Category: Business Process
Category: Environment and Resource Management
Category: Environmental Social And Corporate Governance (ESG)
Category: Business Strategies

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

Category: Critical Thinking
Category: Creative Problem-Solving
Category: Decision Making
Category: Creative Thinking
Category: Ideation
Category: Business Solutions
Category: Problem Solving
Category: Corporate Sustainability
Category: Business Strategies
Category: Innovation

What you'll learn

  • 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.

Skills you'll gain

Category: Business Modeling
Category: Value Propositions
Category: Presentations
Category: Systems Thinking
Category: Design Thinking
Category: Business Valuation
Category: Environmental Social And Corporate Governance (ESG)
Category: Entrepreneurship
Category: Corporate Sustainability
Category: Process Validation
Category: Stakeholder Engagement
Category: Business Strategies
Category: Verification And Validation

Instructor

Haider Ali
The Open University
4 Courses731 learners

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