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
- Stakeholder Engagement
- Business Strategy
- Product Improvement
- Problem Solving
- Strategic Leadership
- Growth Strategies
- Proactivity
- Collaboration
- Decision Making
- Business Planning
- Innovation
- Creative Thinking
- Strategic Thinking
- New Product Development
- Critical Thinking
- Creative Problem-Solving
- Organizational Strategy
- Ideation
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Taught in English
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There are 3 modules in this course
To help position you, your team, and your organization for long-term success, you need to think strategically. Discover how to add value by broadening your perspectives, challenging your assumptions, and identifying new opportunities.
What's included
7 videos19 readings1 assignment
Enough talk—it’s time to make innovation happen. Transform your idea into a new product, service, or process that will make a real impact to your team, organization, and customers.
What's included
15 videos42 readings1 assignment
What's included
2 assignments
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