MGMT4055

This course focuses on how business organizations innovate and change. The course covers foundational topics and combines both theoretical insights and practical knowledge based on cases and hands-on exercises. The class topics address the following questions:
· What are the sources, types, and patterns of innovation?
· What are the characteristics of an organization’s innovation ecosystem?
· How do organizations compete and collaborate in innovation ecosystems?
· What are some external forces shaping organizational innovations?
· How do organizations adapt to these external forces?

By the end of this course, students will:
- Learn the key principles of success and failure of innovation and change in business organizations across different products, services, and geographies.
- Apply course concepts to real organizational cases, diagnose problems, and recommend solutions.
- Use clear written, verbal, and online communication skills.
- Collaborate to create novel solutions to tasks and problems.
- Demonstrate the use of a wide range of qualitative and quantitative sources to support conclusions and recommendations.

prereq: MGMT 3001 or MGMT 3004 or MGMT 3010 or MGMT 3015

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