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Innovation Management Fall
2008: Tuesdays 6:10 p.m. – 8:50 p.m. Discover
the value of innovation by doing it:
Get the knowledge: Learn how others innovate in management, marketing, technology and new products by reading 8-page book summaries from summaries.com Share the knowledge: Learn from each other in small groups and class discussions. Apply the knowledge: Take your own life and apply innovation to it. Take a group innovation project and make a difference with it while learning the power and complexity of innovating in groups. Discover the power of systems thinking with our timeless text:
Systems thinking will likely change the way you think for ever: Our school systems and culture traditionally teach analytical thinking. Systems thinking embraces analysis and adds what Ackoff calls "synthetic thinking." Embracing systems thinking has the power to reduce suffering in the world and in your life as well. Take this class to learn how and to make a difference for yourself. Practicing real innovation on real problems will enable you to learn how best you innovate and how to reduce your personal barriers to innovation. In addition, you will be able to create your own personal innovation process to take with you through your life.
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Learn to create, communicate and innovate - valuable skills you can take with you anywhere. You will create your own "Personal Prospective" or forward-looking discussion document - the opposite and companion of a Resume. Also, you will create your own "Personal Scorecard" to measure what matters to you in your life
To see and hear the Spring 2005 class - Switch sound "on" and click picture above. Participation is a key to innovation: Having the courage to share ideas and build on the ideas of others will be rewarded in this class. You will apply proven innovation processes and learn about conversations for innovation the book: Conversation Innovation by David Henkin:
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