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.
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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
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