Business Ecosystems

Business Ecosystems

The course addresses the question of how to rapidly scale sustainable business. Participants will be updated on the newest approaches to strategic partnering as a tool for business development and scaling in global value chains.

Focus is on developing, organizing, governing, and managing complex strategic partnerships within and across organizational and national borders and is targeted at individuals and businesses involved in driving the business developments towards a zero-carbon world.

Course content

The course will present theories of partnering, global value chains, strategic networks, governance, and international strategy in the context of scaling sustainable business.

The course will feature a combination of theoretical models and practical cases and the course participants will have the opportunity to apply the course material directly to their own business case and get feed-back from the teachers and the group.

The course develops a strategic partnering approach to business development with focus on scaling sustainable business across vertical and horizontal value chain activities.

Key benefits of the course

After completion of the course, you have obtained:

• Overview of theories of strategic partnerships, global value chains, and international strategic management;
• In depth understanding of global value chain partnering and how such collaboration can help scale sustainable business of relevance for a zero-carbon world;
• Case studies will be presented and analysed based on the theories presented in the course;
• Course participants can bring their own company as a case to be analysed and discussed in the course;
• Practical frameworks and tools to help identify, organize, and manage strategic partnerships for scaling sustainable business.