Critical thinking for sustainable business solutions (Coursera)

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.

This course is part of the Sustainability for business success Specialization.

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.

Syllabus

Welcome to the course

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.

Developing sustainable business ecosystem concepts

This week, you will learn how to converge your ideas into concrete concepts to take forward and test throughout the rest of the course.

Converging on sustainability concepts

This week, you will converge your thinking to make decisions about which ideas to take forward or to leave behind.

Refining sustainability concepts

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'.