(Week 1)<\/strong><\/p>\n A business case is a formal argument used to justify a course of action.\u00a0 In this unit, you\u2019ll have an opportunity to learn more about how business cases can be used to promote climate action projects within an organization.\u00a0 You\u2019ll explore the typical elements of a business case and orient to some of the common analytic approaches used to support the case.<\/p>\n Before making decisions, most organizations seek assurance that a given course of action at best will provide a benefit to the organization, and at worse, will not undermine the organization\u2019s viability. \u00a0 In other words, most business cases are based on an underlying principle of self-interest.<\/p>\n Throughout this course, we\u2019ll take a pragmatic approach to the business case, accepting this basic principle of contemporary organizational decision-making.\u00a0 However, it is important to pause first to critically assess the implied ethics of the business case principle.\u00a0 You\u2019ll compare these implied ethics to other ethical frameworks\u2014notably, Indigenous world views and humanistic perspectives, neither of which are premised upon self-interest or payback.<\/p>\n You\u2019ll consider how the approach to decision-making might differ under these alternative frameworks.\u00a0 You\u2019ll engage with the important debate on whether the same system that created the current climate crisis can be relied upon to solve it.\u00a0 This theme will be revisited in the final unit of the course, in which we\u2019ll consider transformative adaptation.<\/p>\n Overview (Week 1) A business case is a formal argument used to justify a course of action.\u00a0 In this unit, you\u2019ll have an opportunity to learn more about how business cases can be used to promote climate action projects within an organization.\u00a0 You\u2019ll explore the typical elements of a business case and orient to some… Read More »Unit 1: Introduction to the business case<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":21,"featured_media":0,"parent":3649,"menu_order":1,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"neve_meta_sidebar":"","neve_meta_container":"","neve_meta_enable_content_width":"off","neve_meta_content_width":0,"neve_meta_title_alignment":"","neve_meta_author_avatar":"","neve_post_elements_order":"","neve_meta_disable_header":"","neve_meta_disable_footer":"","neve_meta_disable_title":"","neve_meta_reading_time":"","footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-3653","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/commons.royalroads.ca\/cals504\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/3653","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/commons.royalroads.ca\/cals504\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/commons.royalroads.ca\/cals504\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/commons.royalroads.ca\/cals504\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/21"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/commons.royalroads.ca\/cals504\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3653"}],"version-history":[{"count":14,"href":"https:\/\/commons.royalroads.ca\/cals504\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/3653\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5539,"href":"https:\/\/commons.royalroads.ca\/cals504\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/3653\/revisions\/5539"}],"up":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/commons.royalroads.ca\/cals504\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/3649"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/commons.royalroads.ca\/cals504\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3653"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}Activities and Assessment<\/h2>\n
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