Innovation for Growth

Introduction

Innovation for Growth explores a framework for making strategic planning more robust amidst an increasingly changing and volatile business environment. As you progress through the course, you will gain insight into the various degrees of leadership that allow innovation to be harnessed and nurtured in organizations. By understanding the challenges that businesses face today, identifying the kind of organizations that are currently providing access to the most innovative landscapes, and recognizing the new kind of intelligences that are required to succeed, this course will challenge your own understanding of the role innovation plays in a company’s growth strategy.

What will you learn in this program?

• Use scenario planning to identify the critical uncertainties that face modern-day businesses and how to respond to them.
• Identify what characterizes innovation-driven organizations and develop a framework for their creation.
• Analyze and create an action plan for a real-world enterprise for its transformation into an innovation-driven enterprise (IDE).
• Identify the characteristics of social intelligence and understand why it is a necessary component for leadership in innovation.
• Make a critical assessment of the strengths and weaknesses of leaders in a given organization.
• Articulate the motivation and drivers for innovation apply a framework to harness them in a collaborative context.
• Assess how Design Thinking forms an integral part of leadership.