3 credits
Spring 2025 Lecture Upper DivisionIn this course you learn why organizations struggle to innovate, how to successfully analyze and implement an innovation strategy, and you learn to manage the innovation process. The course consists of two pillars (or 'walls') that enable a company to become innovative (Innovation Strategy and Organization Design) and the innovation process itself. The innovation process contains how to generate, select, implement, protect, experiment, scale, and diffuse ideas. Consequently, this course will provide you the skills and knowledge to manage innovations. Permission of department required.
Learning Outcomes1Analyze the potential and implication of ideas and innovations for an organization and environment.
2Formulate an innovation strategy.
3Develop an innovation process.
4Distinguish the different approaches to designing an innovative organization.