The Resource Revolution Trainer

The Resource Revolution Trainer is an online self-training course for business managers on the theme of resource productivity and decoupling. Applicable to any business sector world-wide, it takes the latest science on resource use trends and scarcities globally and turns it into practical ideas for any business to roll out a pro-active strategy. It provides the business manager with innovative ideas and inspirational practice examples of steps leading companies are taking towards becoming the Resource Revolution Enterprise. The MOOC (website with training modules) was created and promoted. The self training course is divided into the following six sessions: Session 1 Context: The Global Resource Challenge Session 2 Innovation and Solutions Required Session 3 Principles of Productivity Session 4 Building Blocks for becoming the Resource Revolution Enterprise Session 5 Organizing yourself to become the Resource Revolution Enterprise Session 6 The Challenge of Time and Scale Session 1 provides the public science on the global resource challenge. Session 2 explains decoupling as response strategy, as well as what decoupling requires at business or enterprise level. Sessions 3 – 5 takes you through the principles, building blocks and organizational requirements for your business to turn itself into the Resource Revolution Enterprise. The concluding Session 6 addresses remaining questions related to the difficult issues of time and scale. Each session contains: Video Presentation that cover key concepts Reading Material in the form of PDF downloads with expanded text on the theme of each Session Exercises with questions for discussion Case Examples Resources for additional information (incl weblinks) The target audience of this self-training platform is middle and senior level managers hoping to get a better understanding of the publicly available scientific knowledge on the global resource challenge, and implications of its findings for how their businesses operate and generate value. Having done the online course, managers should be able to conduct a strategic discussion internally on action plans for their companies to become true Resource Revolution enterprises.