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TOOL

The Six Techniques


These six techniques can help you determine how to operationalize a sustainability opportunity within your organization. Refer to this
tool as you work through the course. Use the Notes section to document how each technique would apply to your chosen problem.

Process Trend Description Notes


a way to understand the nonlinear relationships that
Understand the complexity of a system.
exist in complex systems and how they change
Systems Dynamics overtime. SD, seeks to model the causes, effect and
impacts of relationships between broader sets of
variables. helps prioritize attention and resources.

Focused on developing a multidisciplinary


understanding of the problem and built on
Design Thinking the premise that problems affect people,
people behave in a response to a problem,
and those behaviors affect the problem.

The understanding that people make


economic decisions that are strongly influenced
by cognitive limitations and time. We must
Behavioral Economics
consider psychological, cognitive, emotional,
cultural, and social influences in people’s
decision-making processes.

Applying Sustainability Strategy

Samuel Curtis Johnson Graduate School of Management


© 2022 Cornell University 1
Cornell SC Johnson College of Business
Process Trend Description Notes
Focuses on what exists, what works, and what
is strong rather than what is broken. The goal
of positive psychology is to identify where,
when, and how a positive outcome exists in
Positive Psychology
spite of what appears to be a problematic
situation then to find ways to amplify those
conditions to elicit better outcomes more
consistently over time.

Broaden the base of knowledge for idea


generation, evaluation, and implementation
by determining gaps in data, identifying key
stakeholders and actors, and encouraging their
Crowdsourcing
participation in data collection and analysis.

Enables the collection and analysis of vast


quantities of information and makes it possible
to leverage techniques to test the success or
failure of various actions.
Big Data

Applying Sustainability Strategy

Samuel Curtis Johnson Graduate School of Management


© 2022 Cornell University 2
Cornell SC Johnson College of Business

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