UIUC - Sustainable Innovation for Subsistence Marketplaces
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Sustainable Innovation for Subsistence Marketplaces at Coursera Overview
Duration | 35 hours |
Start from | Start Now |
Total fee | Free |
Mode of learning | Online |
Difficulty level | Beginner |
Official Website | Explore Free Course  |
Credential | Certificate |
Sustainable Innovation for Subsistence Marketplaces at Coursera Highlights
- Shareable Certificate Earn a Certificate upon completion
- 100% online Start instantly and learn at your own schedule.
- Course 1 of 7 in the Global Challenges in Business Specialization
- Flexible deadlines Reset deadlines in accordance to your schedule.
- Beginner Level
- Approx. 35 hours to complete
- English Subtitles: Arabic, French, Portuguese (European), Italian, Vietnamese, German, Russian, English, Spanish
Sustainable Innovation for Subsistence Marketplaces at Coursera Course details
- 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 subsistence marketplaces, we use exercises to enable participants to view the world from the eyes of subsistence consumers and entrepreneurs, facilitate bottom?up understanding generated by participants, and provide insights from extensive research. More broadly, the course uses the context of extreme resource constrained contexts to learn about the bottom-up approach pioneered through the Subsistence Marketplaces Initiative, and apply it in any context. The course will involve virtual immersion in subsistence contexts, emersion of unique insights, bottom-up design, innovation and enterprise. A parallel project will focus on understanding a specific need in a subsistence marketplace, and designing a solution and an enterprise plan.
- Upon successful completion of this course 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 as well as other contexts
- This course is part of the iMBA offered by the University of Illinois, a flexible, fully-accredited online MBA at an incredibly competitive price. For more information, please see the Resource page in this course and onlinemba.illinois.edu.
Sustainable Innovation for Subsistence Marketplaces at Coursera Curriculum
Course Orientation
Welcome to Sustainable Innovation for Subsistence Marketplaces
Meet Prof. Viswanathan
Course Orientation
Syllabus
ePub
About the Discussion Forums
Glossary
Updating Your Profile
Orientation Quiz
Lesson 1-1.0 Introduction to Subsistence Marketplaces
Lesson 1-1.1 A Day in the Life of a Rural Homemaker
Lesson 1-1.2 A Day in the Life of a Family in a Refugee Settlement
Lesson 1-2.1 Thinking in Subsistence Marketplaces
Lesson 1-2.2 Feeling and Coping in Subsistence Marketplaces
Lesson 1-2.3 A Day in the Life of an Urban Homemaker
Lesson 1-3.1 Gaining Marketplace Insights in Subsistence Marketplaces
Lesson 1-3.2 Rural Conversation and Observation
Lesson 1-3.3 Urban Conversation and Observation
Lesson 1-4.1 Identifying and Understanding Need, Drivers, and Context Elements
Lesson 1-4.2 Why Virtual Immersion?
Lesson 1-4.3 Immersion: Africa
Lesson 1-4.4 Immersion: China
Lesson 1-4.5 Immersion: South America
Project Resources
Module 1 Overview
Module 1 Readings
Lecture 1-1.3 A Subsistence Marketplace In Rural Tanzania - Bottom-Up Virtual Immersion
Lesson 1-1 Practice Quiz
Lesson 1-2 Practice Quiz
Lesson 1-3 Practice Quiz
Lesson 1-4 Practice Quiz
Module 1 Quiz
Module 2: Bottom-Up Immersion and Emersion
Lesson 2-1.1 Subsistence Consumers and Entrepreneurs
Lesson 2-1.2 Exchanges and Relationships in Subsistence Marketplaces
Lesson 2-1.3 A Day in the Life of an Urban Shopkeeper
Lesson 2-1.4 A Day in the Life of a Rural Shopkeeper
Lesson 2-1.5 A Day in the Life of a Refugee
Lesson 2-2.1 Needs/Products, Relationships, and Markets in Subsistence Marketplaces
Lesson 2-2.2b Virtual Immersion Slideshow
Lesson 2-3.1 Local Environments in Subsistence Marketplaces
Lesson 2-3.2 Environmental Issues in Urban Subsistence Marketplaces
Lesson 2-3.3 Environmental Issues in Rural Subsistence Marketplaces
Lesson 2-4.1 Bottom-Up Immersion and Emersion
Module 2 Overview
Module 2 Readings
Lesson 2-2.2a Virtual Immersion Exercise: Instructions
Copy of Lecture 1-1.3 A Subsistence Marketplace In Rural Tanzania - Bottom-Up Virtual Immersion
Quiz: Lesson 2-1 Practice Quiz
Lesson 2-2 Practice Quiz
Lesson 2-3 Practice Quiz
Module 2 Quiz
Module 3: Bottom-Up Design
Lesson 3-1.1 Generating Ideas and Designing Solutions
Lesson 3-1.2 Idea Generation Exercise Slideshow ? Water
Lesson 3-1.3 Idea Generation Exercise Slideshow ? Plowing
Lesson 3-1.4 Idea Generation Exercise Slideshow ? Technology Solutions
Lesson 3-1.5 Idea Generation Exercise Slideshow ? Cooking
Lesson 3-1.6 Idea Generation Exercise Slideshow ? Education and Schooling
Lesson 3-2.1 Evaluating Solutions and Designing Ecosystems
Lesson 3-2.2 Shakti Rising
Lesson 3-3.1: Case Studies in Bottom-Up Design
Lesson 3-4.1 Bottom-Up Design
A Visit to Tribal Communities in Tanzania
A Day in the Life of an Artisan in Mendoza, Argentina
A Rural Community in Argentina
Field Immersion Clip 1 - Cultural Issues
Field Immersion Clip 2 - Chennai
Field Immersion Clip 3 - Medical Applications Group Project
Field Immersion Clip 4 - Solar Appliances Group Project
Field Immersion Clip 5 - Soy Based Food Group Project
Module 3 Overview
Module 3 Readings
Additional Resource: Examples of Needs Served
Lesson 3-1 Idea Generation Immersion Exercise: Instructions
Lesson 3-1 Practice Quiz
Lesson 3-2 Practice Quiz
Module 3 Quiz
Module 4: Bottom-Up Enterprise
Lesson 4-1.1 Designing, Communicating and Delivering the Value Proposition
Lesson 4-2.1 Designing Elements of Enterprise Plan ? Case Study of Sun Oven
Lesson 4-2.2 Designing Elements of Enterprise Plan ? Case Study of Marketplace Literacy Project
Lesson 4-3 Summary
Lesson 4-4.1 Bottom-Up Enterprise
A Conversation about Bottom-Up Enterprise Introduction
Charting a Bottom-Up Journey
Implementing Bottom-Up Enterprises
Sustaining Bottom-Up Enterprises
Guiding Values & Lessons Learned
Essence of the Bottom-Up Approach
Gies Online Programs
Module 4 Overview
Module 4 Readings
Lecture 4-4.2 A Local Environments in Subsistence Marketplaces - Bottom-Up Virtual Immersion
New Reading
Lesson 4-1 Practice Quiz
Quiz: Lesson 4-2 Practice Quiz
Lesson 4-3 Practice Quiz
Module 4 Quiz
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