Circular Business Strategies and Innovation

About the course

Enhance your understanding of the transformative impact of the CE on business and unlock the potential of circular thinking and sustainable business practices in our comprehensive and advanced course. This dynamic programme empowers participants to embrace and implement circular mindsets and purpose-driven approaches to drive positive change in their organisations. In the course you will be challenged to develop innovative circular business models and extensions.

Completing this course will equip you to:

Implement a circular mindset & purpose
Analyse the organisation's value chain and detect the sweet and hot spots for CE strategies
Examine the matching digital tools as enabler for circular business models
Develop an innovative business model (extension) with a circular business model approach
Design your circular journey with the support of different (design) tools

Managers
Business owners
Entrepreneurs
Professionals (from public and private institutions, NGOs)

Course content

Announcements
Counselling (students' questions & concerns)
Course Introduction
Welcome Lounge: Introduce yourself and connect with peers

Ice-breaker Activity
Unit 1.1 | Key Drivers I: Global Materials Outlook and Its Implications for Transitioning to a Circular Economy
Quiz on Global Materials Outlook and its implications
Unit 1.2 | Key Drivers II: Global and EU Policy Frameworks Driving a Circular Economy
Quiz on Global and EU Policy Frameworks and their implications for business
Learner Activation
Unit 1.3 | The Role of New and Emerging Technologies enabling a Circular Economy:
Quiz on the Role of New and Emerging Technologies in a Circular Economy
Unit 1.4 | The Role of Social Trends in transitioning to a Circular Economy
Discuss the implications of social trends for your companies and industries
Unit 1.5 | Outook into Economic Potentials of transitioning to a Circular Economy
Discussion: The role of businesses in the transformation towards a CE
Final Assignment of Module 1: Envisioning your circular business future(s)

Ice-breaker Activity
Unit 2.1 | Introduction to Sustainability and Circularity Assessment
Unit 2.2 | Frameworks and Approaches I: Life Cycle Assessment (LCA) and Circular Economy
Unit 2.3 | Frameworks and Approaches II: Hand and Footprint Analysis
Unit 2.4 | Diagnose Business Model Circularity

Ice-breaker Activity
Unit 3.1 Understand Circular Business Model and its Significance
Unit 3.2 Circular Business Model Innovation: Pathways
Unit 3.3 Circular business model innovation: Enablers
Unit 3.4 Deep Dive into Circular Business Model Innovation throughout the Product Lifecycle
Unit 3.5 Design Your Circular Business Innovation

Ice-breaker Activity
Unit 4.1 Evaluate Circularity
Calculate the Circularity of Your Business
Unit 4.2 Evaluate Business Viability
Unit 4.3 Review potential enablers and partnerships

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