Why apply sustainability to design thinking?

Human-centered is no longer good enough. Our solutions need to contribute to prosperity to all people, communities, and the planet. Everyone on every team can contribute.

Teams need a diverse set of minds and skills to create something useful, intuitive, and responsible while minimizing harm. The Enterprise Design Thinking for Sustainability course will give you the language, knowledge, and actionable methods to help you and your team design solutions that prioritize sustainability alongside business, technology, and user needs.

Enterprise Design Thinking for Sustainability Course

In this course, you’ll:learn how to apply a sustainability lens to Enterprise Design Thinking with a set of activities, tools, and principles that enable teams to create solutions that consider people, communities, and the planetwork through a fictional case study to see how a team could apply sustainability lens to design thinking

This course embeds sustainability throughout the Enterprise Design Thinking journey. Practitioners get empowered to bring environmental and social impacts at the forefront as they move through the Loop.

Lucy Baunay, Managing Consultant, IBM Sustainability Consulting

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