Leading Innovation and Creativity

Catalog description

Introduces practices and experiences necessary for delivering on two aspects of innovation and leadership: 1) delivers on frameworks, such as design thinking and tools, that are useful for stimulating innovation and creative problem solving through critical analysis of the problem domain, imagination, and inventive thought and action. Provides the means to become more aware of how creativity and innovation affects their own organizational work and role. Addresses the innovation processes that transform ideas into practical and sustaining goods and services. 2) develops practical experiences on innovation leadership that are necessary to create an organizational environment that develops a culture of innovation across all functional areas. Among other skills, students learn how to inspire innovative thinking among peers/employees, how to manage innovation-driven organizational change, and how to perpetuate processes that lead to continuous improvement and innovation across all departments. Looks at the differences between creativity, innovation and invention and how to move from one to the next.