Innovation in a Connected World. Learn about frameworks for management and innovation in an era of uncertainty.
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Innovation strategy is about creating unique value for consumers by providing an excellent product that meets their needs. This course introduces the basic concepts and tools with which companies can manage technological innovation to achieve competitive advantage. It begins by examining the sources of technological change and how to exploit technologies to create value for the company. The course then delves into the various mechanisms for extracting value from technologies, both legal (such as patents, trade secrets, etc.) and strategic (such as lead times, complementary assets, etc.). We will explore the fundamentals of technology strategy through reading and studying cases from established and entrepreneurial technology companies.
This course is part of the Geise College of Business’ online programs, including the iMBA and iMSM. For more information about admission to these programs and how to use your Coursera work if you are accepted to a degree program, visit https://degrees.giesbusiness.illinois.edu/idegrees/ .
You may have noticed that when things are new, they behave differently from what has become accepted over time, whether it is a market, technology, or people and companies. This course helps you develop an approach to innovation management. That is, you will build the ability to lead and shape your organization to implement innovation initiatives and pursue their strategic direction. To do this, you will learn a variety of frameworks, tools, and concepts that are suitable for addressing several important challenges in innovation management. The first challenge concerns how to successfully implement innovation initiatives in established companies and alongside existing businesses. Then you will learn about managing innovation when disruptive technologies are involved. Other topics include leading new product development teams, planning and evaluating innovation initiatives, and managing innovation across organizational boundaries, as occurs with alliances or virtual companies.
This course is part of the Geise College of Business’ online programs, including the iMBA and iMSM. For more information about admission to these programs and how to use your Coursera work if you are accepted to a degree program, visit https://degrees.giesbusiness.illinois.edu/idegrees/ .
Thinking and doing the same thing faster and better is not enough for innovation; we need creativity. Fortunately, creativity is a skill that can be learned. This course will explore when, why, and how to be creative so that we can go through the creative process more efficiently and effectively. It teaches concrete steps to enable you to shift your perspective to see new possibilities and solutions. It explains what to expect from the creative process and provides support on how to maintain your progress. It also provides guidance on how to lead a culture that supports creativity. The result is the ability to increase your personal creativity and that of your teams and organizations to identify and develop new opportunities.
This course is part of the Geise College of Business’ online programs, including the iMBA and iMSM. For more information about admission to these programs and how to use your Coursera work if you are accepted to a degree program, visit https://degrees.giesbusiness.illinois.edu/idegrees/ .
Creativity requires collaboration with others, and this course helps you become better creative collaborators. We need to be able to present our creative ideas in a way that others are excited about rather than confused or frowned upon. We need to be mature enough to evaluate the ideas of others to identify and not miss creative solutions. We need to be able to work with our teams so that creativity flourishes rather than is stifled. This course addresses all of these, identifies the challenges, and provides guidance for effective execution. The result is guidance on how to encourage effective creative collaboration.
This course is part of the Geise College of Business’ online programs, including the iMBA and iMSM. For more information about admission to these programs and how to use your Coursera work if you are accepted to a degree program, visit https://degrees.giesbusiness.illinois.edu/idegrees/ .
This course will explore the early stages of the entrepreneurial process across four modules. The modules will distinguish between the nature of growth and failure in entrepreneurial settings and how to manage resources within them. In addition, the modules will explore the emergence of entrepreneurial opportunities, the formation of ideas about these opportunities, and how these opportunities and ideas influence entrepreneurial phenomena. Finally, the course will focus on how business concepts form the basis for compelling entrepreneurial missions that provide guidance for the development of a venture’s business model and future strategic planning.
This course is part of the Geise College of Business’ online programs, including the iMBA and iMSM. For more information about admission to these programs and how to use your Coursera work if you are accepted to a degree program, visit https://degrees.giesbusiness.illinois.edu/idegrees/ .
This course builds on previous ideas and presents strategies and tactics for starting, financing, and launching a new venture. Topics covered will include building an initial management team for the new venture, identifying and reaching initial customers, developing financial plans, raising funding for start-up and initial growth, and preparing to manage rapid growth.
This course is part of the Geise College of Business’ online programs, including the iMBA and iMSM. For more information about admission to these programs and how to use your Coursera work if you are accepted to a degree program, visit https://degrees.giesbusiness.illinois.edu/idegrees/ .
The special background will guide the learning that will be integrated across all courses in the seminar. It involves analyzing a situation related to new entrepreneurship – a personal venture or within a large organization, in order to develop a current business model and compare it to alternative business models to identify potential opportunities and challenges.
