Intelligence Analytics for Sustainable Businesses

Recommended Prerequisites

Not applicable.

Teaching Methods

Teaching: Lectures and class discussion.

Evaluation: individual homework assignment on the topic of the course.

Learning Outcomes

- To indicate the main drivers for increasing business sustainability.

- To understand the indicators used for sustainability assessment and their reporting.

- To understand the concepts of Business Intelligence and Analytics (BI&A) and identify the main components of a BI&A architecture

- To understand the impact of new technological trends on data analytics

- To develop competencies to identify opportunities and challenges of digitalization.

- To formulate innovative value propositions and business models.

- To understand and apply some of the key tools and models to support more sustainable management and the application of circular economy logic, both in individual companies and in supply chains.

Work Placement(s)

No

Syllabus

Sustainable business: challenges, opportunities, assessment and reporting.

Improving business sustainability: business models, supply chains, and circular economy.

Business Intelligence and Analytics.

Digitalization challenges and opportunities for businesses.

Head Lecturer(s)

Rui Pedro Santos Lourenço

Assessment Methods

Assessment
Individual homework assignment on the topic of the course: 100.0%

Bibliography

Turban, Efraim, Carol Pollard, and Gregory Wood. Information Technology for Management: On-demand Strategies for Performance, Growth and Sustainability. John Wiley & Sons, 2018.

Rainey, David L. Sustainable Business Development: Inventing the Future through Strategy, Innovation, and Leadership. Cambridge University Press, 2006.

Osterwalder, A., Pigneur, Y., Bernada, G, Smith, A. (latest edition). Value Proposition Design. Wiley.

Osterwalder, A., Pigneur, Y. (latest edition). Business Model Generation. Wiley.

Aagaard, Annabeth. Sustainable Business Models: Innovation, Implementation and Success, Palgrave Macmillan, 2019.

Roberta De Angelis. Business Models in the Circular Economy: Concepts, Examples and Theory, (Ed), Palgrave, 2018.

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