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ME52045: Building sustainable value

[Page last updated: 23 October 2023]

Academic Year: 2023/24
Owning Department/School: Department of Mechanical Engineering
Credits: 5 [equivalent to 10 CATS credits]
Notional Study Hours: 100
Level: Masters UG & PG (FHEQ level 7)
Period:
Semester 1
Assessment Summary: CWOG 25%, CWRI 75%
Assessment Detail:
  • Strategic analysis report (CWRI 75%)
  • Team Presentation (CWOG 25%)
Supplementary Assessment:
Like-for-like reassessment (where allowed by programme regulations)
Requisites:
Learning Outcomes:
  • Define sustainable value in holistic terms.
  • Employ and critique appropriate techniques that can be used to assess sustainable value, including but not limited to those based on economic models, lifecycle thinking and systems analysis.
  • Evaluate organisations, products, services and activities in terms of sustainable value.



Synopsis: Explore the concepts of sustainability and value, and how they relate to forces that require a strategic response (like the climate emergency or the biodiversity crisis). You will learn to identify effective strategies for building sustainable value in a holistic sense, and how to create and apply recommendations in contemporary organisations.

Content: Sustainable Value as a strategic driver Systems and Lifecycle Thinking Science based decision making Sustainable business Models

Course availability:

ME52045 is Compulsory on the following courses:

Department of Mechanical Engineering School of Management

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