Build a Leading Innovation Strategy (FutureLearn)

Build a Leading Innovation Strategy (FutureLearn)

Discover how to drive business improvement through innovation in this innovation management course, drawing on the EFQM Model. Build a self-sustaining innovation strategy to drive competitive advantage. Innovation management can play a key role in driving business improvement. Process innovation, business model innovation, and product innovation could help your organisation to build and sustain competitive advantage. On this course, you’ll learn how to ensure your organisation can enjoy these benefits by implementing coherent and self-sustaining innovation processes.

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Leverage the EFQM Model innovation framework
The EFQM Model is a quality management model, designed to support sustainable business excellence. It is the most popular quality management tool in Europe, used by over 30,000 organisations.
This business management course will help you build a winning innovation strategy, drawing upon the innovation framework set out in the EFQM Model.

Become an innovation leader at your organisation
Exploring the latest innovation trends among leading business organisations, you’ll develop a deeper understanding of what innovation actually means.
You’ll learn how to implement it using structured innovation management and how to lead innovation projects that drive meaningful change.

Boost your career and your organisation’s bottom line
By implementing what you learn on this course, you will be able to move your organisation closer to becoming an innovation leader.
Whether its business model innovation, process innovation, or product innovation, this could be instrumental in underpinning business improvement and competitive advantage. From business students to project managers and executives to entrepreneurs, this course offers professional benefits to a wide range of ambitious professionals.

What topics will you cover?

  • Trends in innovation
  • The components of the EFQM Innovation Framework
  • Understanding innovation and how it can be successfully implemented using a structured innovation management approach.
  • How to assess the maturity of innovation in your organisation and develop innovation plans
  • How to lead innovation projects

What will you achieve?
By the end of the course, you‘ll be able to...

  • Explain the importance and benefits of a strategic and structured focus to innovation
  • Explain the background and development of the Innovation framework
  • Explain the main components of the EFQM Innovation Framework and how they are connected
  • Identify how innovative you are and list potential areas where you could improve
  • Use the EFQM Innovation Framework to manage innovation activity
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