W921 – Agile Green Business Design

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Module
Agile Green Business Design
Agile Green Business Design
Module number
W921
Version: 1
Faculty
Business Administration
Level
Master
Duration
1 semester
Turnus
Summer semester
Module supervisor

Prof. Dr. oec. publ. Wolfgang Sattler
wolfgang.sattler(at)htw-dresden.de

Lecturers
Not specified
Teaching language(s)

English

ECTS credits

5.00 Credits

Workload

150 hours

Courses

4.00 SWS (2.00 SWS Lecture | 2.00 SWS Seminar)

Self-study time

90.00 hours

Pre-requisite(s) for the examination
Not specified
Examination(s)

Alternative examination - Portfolio
Weighting: 100 % | Tested in English language

Teaching form

It will be a workshop and usually includes a combination of classroom teaching (33%), individual consultation (33%), e-learning units/virtual teaching (33%). The whole course could take place in the form of a design sprint that lasts a few subsequent days and that could be a real-life project in a real-life organization or company.

Media type

Combination of classroom teaching (33%), individual consultations (33%) and virtual teaching (33%)

Teaching content / structure
  • Technical side of green business
  • Agile side of green business
  • Sustainability: Ecological, Social, Economic Dimension
  • Eco-Innovation Laboratory for Sustainability
  • Green Disruptive Technologies
  • Green Product Development
  • Design Thinking Process for Green Business Ideas
  • Lean Startup Method for Green Business Ideas
  • Value Proposition of Sustainable Products
  • Inventing New Green Business Models
  • Ecopreneurship, Social Entrepreneurship
Qualification objectives

Students are able to find, plan, test, evaluate, improve and realize in an agile way green and sustainable business ideas

Special admission requirement(s)
Not specified
Recommended prerequisites

Prerequisite: a BACHELOR degree in ENGINEERING (as the examples – e.g. in collaboration with Fraunhofer Institutes for Ceramical Technologies - can only be understood with at deep engineering knowledge)

Continuation options
Not specified
Literature

Sommer, Axel: Managing Green Business Model Transformations, 2012

Esty, Daniel/Winston, Andrew: Green to Gold: How Smart Companies Use Environmental Strategy to Innovate, Create Value, and Build Competitive Advantage, 2006

Daft, Richard: Management, 2013

HBR (ed.): Harvard Business Review on Greening Your Business Profitably, 2011; HBR (ed.): Harvard Business Review on Green Business Strategy (Harvard Business Review Paperback Series), 2007

Cooney, Scott: Build a Green Small Business: Profitable Ways to Become an Ecopreneur, 2008

Current teaching resources

e.g. uploads onto OPAL learning platform

 

Notes
Not specified
Link to course or learning resources in OPAL
https://bildungsportal.sachsen.de/opal/auth/RepositoryEntry/34243870733/CourseNode/103188720014339
Modulux link:
https://apps.htw-dresden.de/modulux/en/module/4532