INNOVATION COURSES

This course will prepare you for making strategic decisions specifically about innovation. It will give you an understanding of why firms innovate, why and how they compete on innovation, and what role innovation plays in shaping the strategic decisions of companies. You will learn how to source innovation, the types and patterns of innovation, how to compete in dynamic standards battles and how to gain dominance, how to protect innovation from imitation, and the crucial  question of  timing - a new product launch and market entry.

This course is part of the HEC Paris MSc in Innovation and Entrepreneurship. If you are admitted to the full program, your coursework will count towards your degree program.

This free 6 week course is for anyone who wants to make a difference. Whether you are already familiar with the field of social innovation or social entrepreneurship, working for an organization that wants to increase its social impact, or just starting out, this course will take you on a journey of exploring the complex problems that surround us and how to start thinking about solutions.

We will debunk common assumptions around what resources are needed to begin acting as a social innovator. We will learn from the numerous examples of social innovations happening all over the world. You will be challenged to get out of your comfort zone and start engaging with the diverse spaces around you. By the end of the course, you will have formed your own approach to social innovation, and you will have begun to develop the concepts, mindset, skills, and relationships that will enable you to start and evolve as a changemaker.

You will be able to purchase a Verified Certificate if you wish to show evidence of your achievements, but this is optional, and you may apply for Financial Aid if you are unable to pay the certificate fee.

The Bertha Centre for Social Innovation and Entrepreneurship co-created this course with RLabs, a social movement ‘born-and-bred’ in Bridgetown, Cape Town that is now active in 22 countries. The movement empowers youth through innovative and disruptive technology by teaching them vital skills and providing much needed support and a sense of community. Advocating and supporting initiatives such as RLabs forms part of the Bertha Centre’s mandate. The Centre is a specialised unit at University of Cape Town’s Graduate School of Business, and is the first academic centre in Africa dedicated to advancing social innovation and entrepreneurship.

You can view the course trailer at www.youtube.com/watch?v=TcWYG64WO20

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Today innovation is everyone's business. Whether you are a manager in a global corporation, an entrepreneur starting up, in a government role, or a teacher in an elementary school, everyone is expected to get lean – to do better with less. And that is why we all need design thinking. At every level in every kind of organization, design thinking provides the tools you need to become an innovative thinker and uncover creative opportunities that are there – you're just not seeing them yet.

In this course, we provide an overview of design thinking and work with a model containing four key questions and several tools to help you understand design thinking as a problem solving approach. We also look at several stories from different organizations that used design thinking to uncover compelling solutions.

Markets, and business practices, are changing much more rapidly than in the past. You may think things are ticking along nicely but a tsunami of change is coming, and your organisation is bound to be affected – robotics and AI, 3D printing, 5G, big data, and more.

Our “Innovation Masterclass” is about creating a culture for organisational innovation. It covers action you can take to innovate in four aspects of your organisation:

• Products and Markets
• Business processes
• Workplace practices
• Business models

In addition, the course provides a four-step model to boost innovation in your organisation, and looks at some of the main global trends that are changing markets and business practices.

Jump-start up your organisation’s innovation efforts with the “Innovation Masterclass”.

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The Innovation Leadership e-Course is jammed packed with valuable practices, principles, and tools that will 10X your innovativeness.  

This course is designed to help you understand how to lead innovation or build an innovation strategy in your business and conducted by Malcolm Tyson, PhD.  

This course will expose business leaders to ways to enhance financial performance and value creation through innovation leadership practices, principles, and tools.

This is an introduction for anyone who would like to get clear on the first things to know about how innovation works in organisations and wants to:

Understand what innovation is
Understand the different types of innovation and their application within an organisation
Understand the drivers and need for innovation and change management within an organisation
Understand the conditions which promote and hinder innovation in the workplace
Understand the innovation process, including the use of creative thinking
Have the skills to identify and define an innovation challenge

How can you get started with Corporate Innovation?

There are many types and processes of innovation to consider. This course will get you started on thinking about the right ways to approach your innovation initiative -- from identifying rock star employees to launch your first intrapreneurship project to getting started working with startups,

In this course, you will learn:

• the different forms of innovation and why they are each important (e.g. what are the expected outcomes of each type, and when each type is necessary)
• how to determine which type of innovation an organization needs
• the difference between internal innovation and external (open) innovation
• which innovation process is appropriate for each innovation type
• how to get started with each innovation process
• how to set appropriate objectives and key results
• which KPIs to follow for each innovation process

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In this course you will learn about Business Models: what are the different components of a business, it's "system", how it works. The Business Model Canvas is a great tool to map out and get an overview of how a business works.

You will also learn about business model innovation strategies and especially the "new" types of innovation used by startups and large corporations such as Design, Customer Niches, Sales & Delivery Channels, Customer Engagement, Processes and Revenue Models. They will help you to find new sources of growth for your business and differentiate from competition. We will illustrate all these innovation techniques using dozens of recent examples from startups, small and medium businesses and large corporations.

Most new products & services fail. The #1 reason is that their developers failed to do the necessary customer research. What are customers' top unmet needs? What ideas are most appealing to customers? What is the optimal product design? This course teaches four tools that ALL innovators can use: the product innovation charter, ethnography, concept testing and conjoint analysis. These tools get used during the critical early phases of innovation.