Innovation Management: Winning in the Age of Disruption

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University of Leeds

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Innovation Management: Winning in the Age of Disruption

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Innovation Management: Winning in the Age of Disruption

The course Innovation Management: Winning in the Age of Disruption is an online class provided by University of Leeds through Future Learn. It may be possible to receive a verified certification or use the course to prepare for a degree.

Learn how successful organisations like IBM manage innovation to disrupt markets and achieve business advantage.

Course description

Find out how to manage innovation and make it happen in your organisation
2 weeks

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. 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.

Identify obstacles, sources and pitfalls that affect successful management of innovation.
Differentiate between innovation in core business and transformative business opportunities.
Discuss why management of innovation is important.
Identify key enablers for managing innovation in core business.
Evaluate actions required in own organisation(s) for improving management of innovation in core business.
Describe the disruptive nature of innovation.
Identify managerial approaches to respond to disruptive change.
Define the concept of open innovation and the openness continuum.
Identify the different approaches through which open and collaborative innovation occurs.
Evaluate actions required in own organisation(s) for gaining value from open and collaborative innovation.
Reflect on the core elements of design thinking (DT).
Explore how design thinking can be used to foster innovation, with exposure to some tools and methods of design thinking.
Explain sources of corporate knowledge and protectable intellectual property rights.
Identify risks associated with knowledge leakage and IP infringement.
Explore proactive and reactive strategies for the protection and enforcement of intellectual property rights.
Analyse innovation capabilities at own organisation.

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.

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.

University of Leeds
As one of the UK’s largest research-based universities, the University of Leeds is a member of the prestigious Russell Group and a centre of excellence for teaching.

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Prerequisites & Facts

Innovation Management: Winning in the Age of Disruption

Course Topic

Business & Management, Innovation, Management & Leadership

University, College, Institution

University of Leeds

Course Skill Level

see course summary

Course Language

English

Place of class

Online, self-paced (see curriculum for more information)

Degree

Certificate

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Innovation Management: Winning in the Age of Disruption

To obtain a verified certificate from Future Learn / University of Leeds you have to finish this course or the latest version of it, if there is a new edition. The class may be free of charge, but there could be some cost to receive a verified certificate or to access the learning materials. The specifics of the course may have been changed, please consult the provider to get the latest quotes and news.

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