Sustainable Innovation for Subsistence Marketplaces
$79
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What You'll Learn
- This course focuses on understanding subsistence marketplaces and designing business solutions for the billions of people living in poverty in the global marketplace.
- To develop understanding of these markets, we use exercises to that enable learners to view the world from the eyes of subsistence consumers and entrepreneurs, facilitate bottomâup understanding generated by participants, and provide insights from extensive research.
- More broadly, the course uses the context of extreme resource constraints to learn about the bottom-up approach pioneered through the Subsistence Marketplaces Initiative and apply it in broadly.
This course focuses on understanding subsistence marketplaces and designing business solutions for the billions of people living in poverty in the global marketplace. To develop understanding of these markets, we use exercises to that enable learners to view the world from the eyes of subsistence consumers and entrepreneurs, facilitate bottomâup understanding generated by participants, and provide insights from extensive research. More broadly, the course uses the context of extreme resource constraints to learn about the bottom-up approach pioneered through the Subsistence Marketplaces Initiative and apply it in broadly. A parallel project will focus on understanding a specific need in a subsistence marketplace, and designing a solution and an enterprise plan for implementation. You will be able to: ⢠Develop an understanding of subsistence marketplaces ⢠Design solutions for subsistence marketplaces ⢠Develop enterprise plans to implement solutions for subsistence marketplaces ⢠Apply the bottom-up approach for subsistence marketplaces and other contexts This course is part of Gies College of Businessâ suite of online programs, including the iMBA and iMSM. Learn more about admission into these programs and explore how your Coursera work can be leveraged if accepted into a degree program at https://degrees.giesbusiness.illinois.edu/idegrees/.
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