MBA 7589 Entrepreneurial Innovation

This course is intended for people seeking to improve their ability to manage creativity, innovation, and change. Using an "innovation constraints" framework and successful business practice, participants will learn how to best manage people (all categories of stakeholders) when innovation is the goal. This course focuses on understanding and managing people engaged in creation, innovation and positive change, regardless of the environment. We will treat innovation as the process of generating, assessing, and then implementing useful and valuable ideas. We will focus on all phases from idea generation to getting ideas heard, accepted, and implemented in organizations. As a critical part of the creative process, we will also focus on your creativity and creative development. Numerous activities and exercises will be utilized to assist you, the driver of innovation, in better understanding your personal areas of strength and growth as it relates to entrepreneurial innovation.