Overordnede kursusmål
Business models are changing with the major transition of our
societies, due to decarbonization, sustainability and
digitalization. This course provides participants with a modern
toolset to analyze, evaluate, improve, and create business models
that address major sustainability challenges.
Læringsmål
En studerende, der fuldt ud har opfyldt kursets mål, vil kunne:
- Describe and critique the limitations of modern business and
operations strategies in addressing major sustainability
challenges
- Evaluate the benefits, risks, and costs of recent innovative
sustainable business models
- Translate and extend modern sustainable operations strategies
to a particular organizational context.
- Apply modern business model innovation and operations strategy
tools to create new solutions to sustainability challenges
- Evaluate and apply various risk shifting and mitigation
strategies when designing and deploying new sustainability
initiatives. Also, appraise how risk mitigation strategies act as a
driver for business model innovation
- Engage with sustainability through as an entrepreneur (or
intrapreneur)
- Approach sustainability as an avenue for value creation and
through a “systems designer” lens
- Confidently communicate at the “senior executive level” the
broader objectives of a sustainability initiatives to relevant
stakeholders
Kursusindhold
The main goal of this course is to provide participants with tools
and frameworks to analyze, evaluate, improve, and create business
models that address major sustainability challenges. We will
revisit and critique modern sustainability thinking in business,
analyze business model innovation through a sustainability lens,
and examine how “fundamental” frameworks in strategy and operations
can be adapted to build innovative sustainability initiatives. We
will then dive deeper into emerging sustainability topics such as
Regeneration, Industry Self-Regulation, AI and Society, and
Decarbonization. We will engage in various case discussions,
simulations, and group exercises throughout the course.
Importantly, many of the course’s activities allow participants to
apply course concepts to design an innovative business model in the
context of their choice. At the end of the course, participants
will propose a business model innovation that addresses a social or
environmental need (either within an existing company or as a
start-up idea).
Sidst opdateret
21. april, 2026
