Managing Disruptive Change (edX)

This course helps you to get in the driver seat by teaching you a structured approach to respond to disruptive change through targeted actions:

Identify emerging disruptions early on

• Why do companies get disrupted in the first place?
• What are potential sources of disruption?
• What are disruption patterns that can be spotted?

Proactively manage disruptions to leverage them as an opportunity

• What are potential ways to handle disruptions?
• How strong is the disruption and what kind of impact might it have on my business?
• What are generalizable action patterns that I can transfer to other contexts?

We put special emphasis on the use of real-life case studies and tutorials to ensure practical relevance and help you prepare for actual situations. This course prepares you for a position at the interface of technology and management, going beyond the operational scope to take a more strategic perspective.
After completing this course you will improve your career qualifications as Business Development Manager, Change Manager or Innovation Manager. Professionals from the industries of IT Management , Mechanical Engineering , Marketing Consulting and Project Coordination already completed the course.
This course is part of the "Managing Technology & Innovation: How to deal with disruptive change" MicroMasters program designed to teach the critical skills needed to be successful in this exciting field.

What you'll learn

• How to spot specific disruption patterns as well as potential sources of disruptions
• Ways to assess the degree of the respective disruptions in terms of stage, speed and impact
• The know-how to select appropriate counter initiatives drawing from a tool kit of potential actions, depending on the assessment of the disruption