Business Development
Courses tagged with "Business Development"
Sustainable Innovation: How Organisations Can Create Sustainable Innovation Projects
This course investigates the principles and practices of sustainable innovation, concentrating on how businesses and organisations can develop and implement innovative solutions that address environmental, social, and economic challenges. Participants will analyse case studies, engage in inventive problem-solving, and create a sustainable innovation project.
Completing this course will equip you to:
- Learn the basics of sustainable innovation
- Understand eco-innovation and social innovation
- Get familiar with how to scale sustainable innovations
- Understand how to use Open Data and services towards a sustainable digital transformation
- Evaluate and be able to apply related methodologies for sustainable innovations

- Managers
- Business owners
- Entrepreneurs
- Students
- Teacher: Kostas Dellis
- Teacher: Panagiota Koltsida
- Teacher: Lydia Papadaki
- Enrolled students: 3
Green and Social Entrepreneurship Business Modeling
The course aims to provide participants with tools and techniques to start a (social/green) business. The controlled learning environment enables participants to discover their entrepreneurial mindsets and deal with individual challenges that might arise in bringing a business idea to life. The journey starts from the idea development and contains all the necessary steps of setting up a green or social business. The course will finish with a pitch of each individual’s developed business idea.
Completing this course will equip you to:
- Develop business ideas
- Use design thinking and social canvas tool for social business modelling
- Understand customer and beneficiary segments, pains and gains
- Provide a sustainable business model

Everyone interested in founding a green & social business
- Teacher: Johannes Oberndorfer
- Enrolled students: 4
Creating Sustainable Business Models
This course will guide participants through the topic of sustainable business models including the different archetypes and different case examples of successful sustainable business models. Further, participants will get acquainted with the use of the Sustainable Business Model Canvas and develop a draft of a Sustainable Business Model.
Completing this course will equip you to:
- Explain the different archetypes of Sustainable Business Models
- Identify relevant actions and measures to integrate sustainability into an existing business model
- Illustrate a sustainable business model via the Sustainable Business Model Canvas

- Managers
- Business owners
- Entrepreneurs
- Students
- Teacher: Rene Wenzel
- Enrolled students: 4
Driving Sustainable Growth with Innovation Capital
The course aims to provide participants with the knowledge and skills necessary to fully realise the strategic potential of managing intellectual capital and innovation within their organisations and drive sustainable growth. Participants will be able to evaluate the ROI of investing in R&D&I and align innovation capital with organisational objectives and the business plan. This course includes live online training sessions where participants will interactively work on given assignments.
Completing this course will equip you to:
- Explain the relationship between innovation capital and the other components of intellectual capital
- Examine how different types of innovations can be integrated into various business models
- Propose activities to align innovation capital with organisational objectives and the business plan and drive sustainable growth
- Evaluate the effects and ROI of investing in R&D&I on organisational performance with appropriate metrics for quantifying innovation capital.

Senior executives, managers, innovation leaders, R&D managers, entrepreneurs, and professionals seeking to advance their understanding of innovation capital management and wish to innovate responsibly and sustainably.
- Teacher: Rhonda Bowen
- Teacher: Ana Tomik
- Teacher: Slavica Trajkovska
- Enrolled students: There are no students enrolled in this course.
Organisational Capital
The course aims to understand how effectively managing organisational capital is crucial for organisations looking to thrive in a rapidly changing business environment. Participants will involve a combination of strategic planning and commitment to fostering a culture of innovation and continuous improvement. These assets are not physical in nature but play a crucial role in the organisation's success, contributing to efficiency, productivity, and competitive advantage.
Completing this course will equip you to:
- Explain the elements of the organisational capital
- Discuss the importance of organisational capital and the need to manage it strategically
- Relate organisational capital and financial management
- Design activities and action plans for organisational learning
- Develop an organisational capital strategy adapted to your organisation

- SMEs managers
- HR managers
- Students of Business and related fields
- Teacher: Carolina Marques
- Teacher: Florinda Matos
- Teacher: Nuno Matos
- Enrolled students: 2
SustainAgility – How Agile Ways Help to Continuously Improve Sustainability in Business
This course aims to introduce the connection between sustainable business transformation and agile ways of working in this process. Participants will learn to use agile patterns and logic to accelerate and adopt their change towards a more sustainable organisation.
Completing this course will equip you to:
- Connect the agile basic knowledge with the sustainability challenges of the SDG 17
- Compare classic and agile approaches to management
- Connect agile execution to sustainable regulation and audits
- Utilise agile methods for business model innovation
- Introduce purpose-driven leadership in sustainability transformation

- Professionals (from public and private institutions, NGOs)
- Managers
- SME owners
- Students
- Teacher: Boris Gloger Consulting
- Teacher: Katharina Reuter
- Enrolled students: 3