Power moves
Redesign Business System or Value Stream

The redesigned Business System is a vision of what processes might become were they able to reach potential. It defines what is attainable by the project team within the organization's constraints of me and budget.

Standardization

Process consolida on Streamlined ac vi es

Reduced cycle time Information at the source

Clear responsibility & authority

“A Rounder Sense of Purpose” presented 12 key competencies for Education for Sustainable Development [15].

The field of Sustainability Driven Entrepreneurship is emerging and could provide an insight into what competencies are needed to make the students act as global sustainable citizens. Bieberhofer et al., (2018) has made an explorative study on sustainability competencies to extract what competencies are needed and to make students capable of creating individually based sustainable actions and thereby act as sustainable “citizens”.

By comparing the five sustainability key competencies from Wiek et al. (2011) they found it crucial for the entrepreneurs to understand the complexity of the present economical and complex production transformation processes into a sustainability driven paradigm. Bieberhofer et al., (2018) stressed the “reflection on norms and values as the most “distinctive element in Sustainability Driven Entrepreneurship (normative competency”. Finally, Bieberhofer underlines the need for expanding personal development processes of students and the establishment of new settings for the personal reflection of opportunities. The educator needs to understand the importance of didactics.

13. Deploy the Business Process Improvement Plan

A Business Process Improvement e ort executed well will deploy the strategies identified above. Process performance improvement should be monitored no less than monthly and problems and opportunities that have been resolved should be replaced by new problems and opportunities that are more challenging and deliver greater benefit when solved.

Quick wins

Actions to be taken

Personnel changes Change management Training and education Metrics assessment

Analysis of the case data revealed five generative rules, presented as principles of organization design. These are the principles of resource perpetuation, benefit stacking, strategic satisficing, qualitative management, and worthy contribution. Together, these design principles constitute a logically consistent interpretive scheme, termed ‘perpetual reasoning,’ which is distinct from the interpretive scheme used by conventional entrepreneurs. The source of this divergence is found in the instrumental purpose for which an enterprise is created. Conventional entrepreneurs view enterprises as a means of profiting from the exploitation of resources, with the underlying logic of using resources for one's own advantage to generate maximum financial returns in the shortest time possible. In contrast, sustainability entrepreneurs view enterprises as a means of perpetuating resources, with the underlying logic of using human and natural resources in a way that enhances and maintains the quality of their functioning for the longest time possible. This approach positions people and the natural environment not only as a means of generating wealth, but also as ends in their own right. The design principles used by these entrepreneurs are a manifestation of these values and beliefs as applied to the requirements of organizing.

The findings of this study suggest the values and motives that give rise to sustainability entrepreneurship, based on equanimity between self, other people, and nature, result in specific organizing tensions that have the potential to challenge the viability of these enterprises in a competitive market context. The significance of the design principles employed by successful sustainability entrepreneurs is that they enabled these organizing tensions to be overcome. The skillful use of perpetual reasoning, then, is likely one of the key features that distinguishes successful from equally motivated, but ultimately unsuccessful, sustainability entrepreneurs. If sustainability entrepreneurship is to be supported in practice, the implication is that such aspiring entrepreneurs require more than the right set of values and motives to succeed — they also require the right practical expertise. The design principles identified and described in this study represent one important aspect of this expertise.

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A creativity-based design process for innovative product design

Creativity, aesthetics and eco-friendliness:

educational institutions should encourage the development of sustainability competencies.

transformational learning content and outcomes, pedagogy as well as the learning environment [13]. But, teaching at design-schools is still very often shaped by silos and many of the educators are not aware of these emancipatory, competence-oriented didactics. A change from knowledge based to competence-based learning in Sustainability Education is needed to transform the educational system. [7] [13] [21] [22]. Success in acquiring sustainability competencies extends beyond memorization and requires educational institutions to provide new informal learning settings [8] [9] [10] [11].

Change course could apply service design for sustainable development methods and how the competencies could improve in order to enhance the collaboration and innovations made.

Framing key sustainable competencies

A definition of competences relies on an interlinked complex of knowledge, skills, and attitudes that enables the performance of successful tasks and problem solving. [16] The ESD discourse has presented eight key competencies of particular importance for thinking and acting in favour of sustainable development: 1. Systems thinking competency, 2. Anticipatory competency, 3. Normative competency, 4. Strategic competency, 5. Collaboration competency, 6. Critical thinking competency, 7. Self-awareness competency, 8. Integrated problem-solving competency

latest trends in trying to develop “participatory” or “democratic” approaches combining active student involvement with empowerment

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The interaction of creativity, innovation and sustainability is gaining momentum, but a lot more research is necessary. Some potential (not binding) areas of investigation for creativity and innovation are novel and useful conceptual definitions and theoretical framings of sustainability, as well as ideas for how to solve environmental and social problems with implications for sustainability. In addition, there is a high need for different methodological approaches to conduct research on sustainability, which might come from different fields like sociology or engineering. Before this background, this article introduces a conceptual framing of creativity, innovation and sustainability.

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