Today's high performing businesses must have the ability of constantly leveraging internal and external resources and knowledge in order to free and grow their creative potential and ultimately develop new viable offerings, i.e., innovate. Demands for creative thinking and for processes canalizing this thinking into innovations that pay off in the marketplace are raised on leaders, on managers and on organizations alike. In this context, the course aims at developing an understanding of creativity and innovation as phenomena and processes in organizations, how they can be managed and enhanced, and how practical tools and methods can be used in order to improve and evolve innovation output.
Technology has always been both a major driver and key enabler of innovation, as well as an innovation outcome itself. Hence, the processes of technology generation and deployment play a pivotal role in what innovations develop and how they develop in organizations, industries, regions and even on a global scale. Another critical objective of the course is therefore to provide an analysis of technology as a contemporary strategic imperative and how it can be managed and integrated to enhance innovation through structured approaches to R&D and New Product/Service Development.
- Teacher: Klas-Eric Soderquist