Innovation Administration

About this Course

What’s innovation administration? How do corporations herald new enterprise fashions and get new services to the market? Go on a nine-week journey via innovation administration ideas, theories of thought era, choice, technique formulation and implementation on this MOOC in Innovation Administration. In it, additionally, you will be taught the instruments for implementing innovation tasks your self.

Guided by world-class teachers, you’ll develop an revolutionary mindset and experience in how corporations efficiently create new concepts for advertising and marketing new merchandise. The syllabus additionally contains periods about innovation technique, thought administration and social networks. Throughout this course, you’ll learn to: • use the primary innovation administration terminology and ideas • clarify the adoption life cycle and innovation adoption on the particular person stage • outline creativity and clarify how creativity will be stimulated • recognise and describe three sorts of thought administration methods • clarify what an innovation technique is and why it is necessary • describe what a product portfolio is • clarify how innovation tasks needs to be chosen and managed • clarify the significance of groups, group buildings and networks for innovation. Rotterdam Faculty of Administration, Erasmus College (RSM) is one among Europe’s main enterprise faculties, and ranked among the many high three for analysis. RSM’s major focus is on creating enterprise leaders with worldwide careers who carry their revolutionary mindset right into a sustainable future. Go to www.rsm.nl for extra info. This nine-week MOOC in Innovation Administration is taught in English. There isn’t any price to take part within the programme.

SKILLS YOU WILL GAIN

• Social Community
• Administration
• Innovation
• Innovation Administration

Syllabus – What you’ll be taught from this course

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WEEK

1

1 hour to finish

Introduction

After this week’s research and the related train, you’ll perceive the that means of innovation and innovation administration. Additionally, you’ll be taught to establish and differentiate between numerous sorts of innovation. Consequently, you’ll turn out to be acquainted with fundamental terminology that can aid you to raised course of and perceive the course content material of the next weeks.

WEEK

2

1 hour to finish

The Adoption of Improvements

You’ll be taught to know how improvements diffuse in society. It is possible for you to to explain the adoption life cycle and discriminate between the assorted adopter teams. Additionally, you will be taught what it takes for somebody to undertake one thing new. Altogether, you’ll acquire a greater understanding of what determines whether or not and how briskly individuals undertake improvements.

WEEK

3

2 hours to finish

The Fuzzy Entrance-Finish – Creativity

In a knowledge-based and innovation-driven enterprise atmosphere, creativity is a vital functionality if an organisation is to achieve a sustainable aggressive benefit. All improvements start with artistic concepts, and creativity can be wanted throughout the complete innovation course of. So, it’s imminent that staff in any job and at any stage of the organisation can contribute to innovation with artistic concepts. This module includes of 4 instruction movies, one interview with a creativity advisor, and two assignments. After this module you’ll perceive what creativity is and the way you, different individuals and teams turn out to be extra artistic: essential information for any supervisor that wishes to excel in innovation!

WEEK

4

1 hour to finish

The Fuzzy Entrance-Finish – Thought Administration

Organisations obtain many new concepts from staff, suppliers, and prospects. However they usually don’t realise the revolutionary potential of those concepts as a result of they fail to correctly handle them. By learning this module and doing the related workout routines, you’ll perceive the fundamental ideas of thought administration. It is possible for you to to distinguish between three sorts of thought administration programmes, and find out about their totally different traits, benefits and downsides. As well as, you’ll find out about two common challenges that many thought administration programmes face: how one can encourage individuals to constantly submit concepts and how one can enhance the standard of concepts. A greater understanding of the ideas, variations, and challenges of thought administration will aid you design applicable thought administration programmes that flip new concepts into profitable improvements.