HS39
Course Contents
Module 1 - Introduction & System Dynamics
Key Topics
- Sustainability: The Capacity for Continuity into the Long-Term Future
- Safe Operating Spaces and “Unsustainability”
- The Importance of Energy in Human Systems
- Historical Background to Current Global Challenges
- Historical Responses to Unsustainability
- Overview of Global Problems of Unsustainability
Module 2 -Introduction to Transition Engineering Decision-Making Tools
Key Topics
- The Unsustainability Challenges Facing My Organisation
- Examples and Use of Future Scenarios
- The Challenge of Energy Return on Energy Invested (EROI)
- The Problem of Exponential Growth
- The Relative Usefulness of Existing Future Scenarios
- Introduction to Transition Engineering and Innovation
Module 3 - Thinking Differently: Designing Change
Key Topics
- Thinking Tools that can Help Decision-Making about Strategic Direction
- Path Break Concepts – envisioning a sustainable future
- Learn from What Works – Sustainable models for economic activity and capital
- Achieving Resilience to External Change
- Path Break Solution for Your Organisation
Module 4 - Designing Strategic Path Break Concepts and Change Plans
Key Topics
- Creating a Vision of Future Success
- Using Back-Casting to See-out How to Get to Where You want to be
- Developing a Change Programme
- Identifying Barriers to Change
- Trigger Events – external and internal events that help avoid undesirable inertia
- Collaboration with Operational Staff to Implement Change
Module 5 - Implementation & Course Assessment
Key Topics
- Creating a Change Programme from a Back-Casting Change Path
- Managing Core and Non-Core Activities in a Change Programme
- Use of Standard Management Tools to Implement Path Break Changes
- The role of Teams in Change – Shared Vision, Trust Structure and Leadership
- The Importance of Strategic Communications to Maintain Momentum and Ownership
