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Innovation: From Plan to Product
- Self-paced
- Free Access
- Fee-based Certificate
- 10 Sequences
- Intermediate Level
Course details
Syllabus
Week 1: Why do innovations fail?
Analyze the factors that lead to the failure of innovation
Week 2: Business models and innovation
Explain and apply the role of the business model in capturing value from innovation
Week 3: Value chains and Industry Networks
Introduce value chains and their use for innovation including within industry networks and multi-business projects
Week 4: Designing and testing innovation options
Identify how design thinking can help innovation, including technologies that can be used during the designing and testing of innovation concepts
Week 5: Managing for now and the future
Describe how portfolio approaches can be used to scale up innovation
Week 6: Introduction to valuing innovation
Introduce valuation, discounted and dynamic cash flow modeling and the relationship between financial tools and innovation
Week 7: Managing implementation projects
Outline project management tools for use in innovation projects including stage gate, network and knowledge management
Week 8: Structured problem solving for planning
Demonstrate competence in adapting and applying the strategic and operational managerial frameworks and tools necessary for innovation
Week 9: Business plans
Identify the value of innovation business plans
Week 10: Managing uncertainty and risk in innovation
Explain how organizations respond to shifting workplace dynamics, customer expectations or technological advances
Prerequisite
- English writing/reading proficiency (required)
- General knowledge of business processes (recommended)
Instructors
Tim Kastelle
Associate Professor
The University of Queensland
Anna Jenkins
Senior Lecturer in Entrepreneurship and Innovation
The University of Queensland
Rachel Fitzgerald
Associate Director of Online Education
University of Queensland Business School
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