Strategy and innovation are essential to your organization’s long-term success. As a leader, you need to think strategically and creatively, and help others do the same. In this course, you’ll develop the skills to explore and assess ideas, challenge assumptions, and identify new possibilities to create value for your customers and organization. You’ll also learn strategies to help your team accelerate innovation through experimentation and to win stakeholder buy-in for your innovative ideas.
Drive Innovation and Growth
Drive Innovation and Growth
This course is part of Leadership for Everyone Specialization
Instructor: Harvard Business Review
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Gain insight into a topic and learn the fundamentals.
Intermediate level
Some related experience required
3 weeks to complete
at 10 hours a week
Flexible schedule
Learn at your own pace
What you'll learn
Explore industry trends and organizational patterns to identify strategic opportunities.
Create proactive strategic responses by anticipating future opportunities and challenges.
Support innovation by connecting with others and developing a network of supporters.
Design innovation experiments and learn from successes and failures.
Skills you'll gain
- Proactivity
- Strategic Thinking
- Stakeholder Engagement
- Ideation
- Organizational Strategy
- Business Planning
- Creative Problem-Solving
- Business Strategy
- Growth Strategies
- Critical Thinking
- Collaboration
- Innovation
- New Product Development
- Creative Thinking
- Problem Solving
- Strategic Leadership
- Decision Making
- Product Improvement
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Taught in English
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