Sustainability Analytics

Sustainability Analytics explores ways organizations can maximize business value from sustainability efforts. Learn how to collect, analyze, and communicate insights from a wide-range of sustainability-related factors including energy and resource use, greenhouse gas emission, and supply chain performance to improve overall resource efficiency. Investigate how sustainability analytics can apply historical data to help organizations minimize price shocks and supply disruptions, create a competitive advantage, identify future risks, and model future sustainability landscapes involving economic, social, and environmental factors. Learn compelling ways to present and tell sustainability insights using visualization and data storytelling techniques and explore tools that support real-time sustainability analysis of historical behaviours, present situations, and future impacts.

Learning Objectives

• Describe definitions of sustainability and how they apply to different organizations
• Describe the impact and benefits of sustainable pursuits by organizations
• Identify baselines, metrics, and drivers of sustainability for organizations
• Explore methods to analyze sustainability-related data and the types of insights generated
• Describe characteristics of effective visualization design and storytelling with data for sustainability applications
• Apply tools to explore sustainability-related data, analyze the results, develop visualizations for effective communication of insights

The assessments will consist of quizzes, assignments and projects. The learner must be able to show competence in demonstrating their comprehension of the lessons, and application of the concepts. Formative learning will take place as students read, watch videos and explore cases during the 90-minute lesson.

Organizations have discovered the business value of sustainable development and are looking for employees that can identify and assess sustainability measures.  This microcredential helps organizations further realize and capitalize on their sustainability pursuits by providing the training needed for their employees to function within a data-based organization.  Skills acquired within this micro-credential evolve around the concept of sustainability analytics and can be applied to analyze past organizational behavior, review current performance, and to develop future strategies to maximize value.  By having a better grasp on the measures involved, organizations are becoming more successful in their transition to a low-carbon economy.

• Sustainability within the Supply Chain
• Sustainable Solutions for Entrepreneurs and Small Businesses