Learn how successful organisations like IBM manage innovation to disrupt markets and achieve business advantage. Find out how to manage innovation and make it happen in your organisation. This course from the Leeds University Business School will show you how to manage innovation through real-life examples from IBM. You’ll identify challenges to innovation management and develop an innovation strategy.
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You’ll see how the world’s most successful businesses use systematic processes to manage disruptive innovation. Through practical insights you’ll learn how to continuously innovate in your core business. Exploring the latest design thinking and open innovation frameworks will help you drive innovation effectively within an established organisation or growing venture.
Syllabus
Week 1: Challenges of innovation
Week 2: Key capabilities of innovation
What will you achieve?
- Explain different types of innovation and innovation dynamics.
- Identify strategic innovation challenges in organisations.
- Explore core innovation and the key enablers required for successful innovation in existing operations, business and markets.
- Develop managerial approaches to organise innovation processes.
- Explore the key capabilities which support successful innovation.
- Reflect on innovation responses in real case studies.
Who is the course for?
This course is for professionals with an active interest in innovation who wish to improve their knowledge or make innovation happen in their organisation.
Whether you work in the public or private sector, a young start-up or an established multinational, the course will give you the skills to generate and implement innovative ideas. The course is designed to be flexible so you can study at a time convenient to you.
