Full course description
This course brings the latest insights from the areas of innovation and organisational change management and aims to equip learners with the knowledge and tools to navigate key challenges within this space. Its focus is to develop understanding of fundamental concepts, developed through critical appraisal of cases to examine how innovation theory manifests within continuously evolving and complex contexts.
With a focus on co-creation of value, the course will examine approaches to the realisation of new goods, services and processes. Set against a backdrop of rapid technological, global, social and cultural change, learners will examine innovation, organisational culture and change through the multidisciplinary perspectives of management, psychology, economics and sociology.
Successful companies and organisations of all sizes are typically characterised by innovation and the ability to be agile. This is increasingly important in today’s global marketplace but brings with it challenges to product and service development, as well as change in organisational structures, operations and human behaviour. This course will equip learners with the knowledge and skills to engage in the effective development of new products and services delivering value through navigating the innovation lifecycle, open collaboration and developing organisational structures that support rapid and sustainable change.
The course is divided into five key themes:
[1] A review and critical evaluation of key theories of innovation, strategy and core processes
[2] Innovation networks and multidisciplinary approaches
[3] Disruptive forces
[4] People, culture and change
[5] Product and service design agility
Learners will develop their managerial skills, synergistic thinking, critical evaluation and research skills.