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Sustainable Digital Innovation

EIT Digital

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Two of our most profound business challenges are digitalization and sustainability. They are rapidly changing the way we are doing business both today and in the future. Therefore, in the Sustainable Digital Innovation course, we explore the business opportunities that can open up when we align our strategy with sustainability goals.
You will gather knowledge on:
* understanding the sustainable contextual framework
* the methods and tools for your business to address sustainable challenges of different means
* how digital technologies can help you manage and innovate your role in your business ecosystem and support sustainable development in business and society
* the existing and emerging cases of digitally-enabled sustainable solutions - as these solutions are of value to industries on various markets.

Your course leads, Program Director - Staffan Movin, and Jan Agri - Senior Advisor Circular Economy, will guide you through the various perspectives of the field, providing you with the methods and tools you need based on applied research findings. You will also get valuable insights from major business leaders and experts. For example, you will meet:
- Björn Stigson, former President of The World Business Council for Sustainable Development (WBCSD)
- Elaine Weidman Grunewald, Sustainability executive, author, board member, founder of AI Sustainability Center, and former SVP at Ericsson
- Henrik Henriksson, former President and CEO of Scania
- Annika Ramsköld, Vice President Sustainability, Vattenfall.

After the completion of this course, you can deepen your knowledge with the live professional course, Sustainable Digital Innovation. For more information and registration details follow this link: https://professionalschool.eitdigital.eu/sustainable-digital-innovation

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Intermediate Level

You are a business leader or product manager who want to explore how your business can thrive in a more sustainable and digital business context.

Approx. 13 hours to complete

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Skills you will gain

Green Strategy
Business Modeling
Corporate Sustainability
Sustainable Leadership
Sustainable Innovation

Flexible deadlines

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Shareable Certificate

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100% online

Start instantly and learn at your own schedule.

Intermediate Level

You are a business leader or product manager who want to explore how your business can thrive in a more sustainable and digital business context.

Approx. 13 hours to complete

English

Could your company benefit from training employees on in-demand skills?

Try Coursera for Business

Instructors

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4.4/5 (51 Ratings)

Jan Agri

Senior Advisor Circular Economy

KTH Executive School

4,783 Learners

1 Course

Staffan Movin

Program Director

KTH Executive School

9,511 Learners

3 Courses

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EIT Digital

EIT Digital is a European education and innovation organisation with a mission to foster digital technology innovation and entrepreneurial talent for economic growth and quality of life. By linking education, research, and business, EIT Digital empowers digital top talent for the future.

EIT Digital provides online and face-to-face Innovation and Entrepreneurship education to raise quality, increase diversity and availability of the top-level content provided by 20 leading technical universities around Europe. The universities deliver a unique blend of the best of technical excellence and entrepreneurial skills and mindset to digital engineers and entrepreneurs at all stages of their careers. The academic partners support Coursera’s bold vision to enable anyone, anywhere, to transform their lives by accessing the world’s best learning experience. This means that EIT Digital gradually shares parts of its entrepreneurial and academic education programmes to demonstrate its excellence and make it accessible to a much wider audience. EIT Digital’s online education portfolio can be used as part of blended education settings, in both Master's and Doctorate programmes, and for professionals as a way to update their knowledge.

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Syllabus - What you will learn from this course

Week

Week 1

3 hours to complete

Sustainable development - How does it relate to a business?

3 hours to complete

3 videos (Total 17 min), 8 readings, 1 quiz

3 videos

Never let a good crisis go to waste 2m

Future maps5m

The business opportunities of sustainable development8m

8 readings

Introduction10m

Meet your instructors10m

What will we cover in this lesson?3m

What can we do?20m

What will we cover in this lesson?3m

The sustainable benefits of digitalization20m

What will we cover in this lesson?3m

Why do we need sustainable development?20m

1 practice exercise

Test your knowledge 130m

Week

Week 2

3 hours to complete

Integrating sustainability into business management

Welcome to the second week of the course! This week we will focus on the integration of sustainability into business. Companies addressing sustainability as a regulation tend to have more difficulties in gaining business advantages and profitability then companies that incorporate sustainability as a central part in their way of doing business. The following lessons will support integration ambitions.

3 hours to complete

4 videos (Total 33 min), 8 readings, 1 quiz

4 videos

The winds of change8m

The All-Inclusive Offer7m

Controlled revolutions8m

What gets measured gets done8m

8 readings

What will we cover in this lesson?3m

How to approach the SDGs20m

What will we cover in this lesson?10m

The WBCSD and the Global Compact15m

What will we cover in this lesson?3m

The assessment of low-carbon solutions20m

What will we cover in this lesson?2m

Perspectives on change and The Three Horizons25m

1 practice exercise

Test your knowledge 230m

Week

Week 3

3 hours to complete

Aligning sustainablility in industrial digitalization

3 hours to complete

3 videos (Total 26 min), 6 readings, 1 quiz

Week

Week 4

3 hours to complete

Sustainable development - A source for innovation

3 hours to complete

3 videos (Total 28 min), 6 readings, 1 quiz

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TOP REVIEWS FROM SUSTAINABLE DIGITAL INNOVATION

by JJAug 1, 2022

it is a nice litterature list, but very sparse on video material, explanations, use cases ...

by ZMSep 23, 2022

introduces new concepts and interesting case studies on sustainable innovations. The digital aspect wasnt comprehensively covered though.

by JOFeb 25, 2021

Excellent and challenging course - a lot of very pertinent information for instilling sustainability as a core value in your organisation

by TGJul 14, 2021

Great course how digital innovations can help with more sustainable business models.

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