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
- Deliver clear and persuasive presentations to “senior executive
level” on the key objectives of sustainability initiatives,
ensuring stakeholder alignment
Kursusindhold
This course zooms in on the operational level of sustainable
business models in society. 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
03. april, 2025
