Week 15: Business Innovation & Adaptation to Change
Overview
This week focuses on business innovation terminology and concepts, sustainable business practices and ESG (Environmental, Social, and Governance) reporting language, and future of work and emerging business trends.
Topics Covered
- Business innovation terminology and concepts
- Sustainable business practices and ESG (Environmental, Social, and Governance) reporting language
- Future of work and emerging business trends
Class Activities for the Week
Course Period 1 (2 hours)
- Assignment introduction: Emerging Business Trends Zine (Partial Exam 3)
- Introduction to concepts related to business innovation and adaptation
- ESG Activity
Course Period 2 (2 hours)
- Discussion: Future trends in global business and implications for language professionals
- Workshop: Communicating innovative ideas across cultures
Independent/Group Assignments (and Point Totals)
- Assignment: Emerging Business Trends Zine (Partial Exam 3) (10 points)
- Contribute a creative piece exploring an emerging business trend, innovation, or aspect of digital transformation
- Choose from various formats: speculative business scenarios, blackout poetry from business texts, visual-text combinations, manifestos, or experimental formats
- All contributions will be compiled into a class zine showcasing diverse perspectives on the future of business
- Due date: End of week
- Class attendance and participation (2 points)
Learning Resources
- Examples of innovative business developments
- Distributed AI Research (DAIR) Possible Futures Zine
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- “Explain what a zine is and the text types that one is likely to find in a zine”
- “Use the following digital transformation terminology in common business contexts”
- “Create examples of ESG reporting vocabulary with real business applications”
- “Generate ideas for discussing future of work trends and their impact on language professionals”
- “Help me to build a framework for understanding if a business trend is truly transformational or is just marketing hype”
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