Drive Innovation and Growth
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Drive Innovation and Growth
This course is part of Leadership for Everyone Specialization
Instructor: Harvard Business Review
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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.
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March 2026
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There are 3 modules in this course
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.
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
7 videos•Total 12 minutes
- How Can I Be More Strategic?•1 minute
- Sound Strategic•1 minute
- Listen for Opportunities•2 minutes
- Stay Open to New Ideas•1 minute
- Strengthen Your Thinking by Inviting Dissent•2 minutes
- How to Surface the Best Ideas•2 minutes
- 4 Steps of Strategic Thinking•3 minutes
19 readings•Total 570 minutes
- Understand the Big Picture•30 minutes
- What is strategic thinking?•30 minutes
- Get in the habit•30 minutes
- Make it a team effort•30 minutes
- Sound more strategic•30 minutes
- Explore Key Trends•30 minutes
- Consider the broader context•30 minutes
- Ask the right questions•30 minutes
- Clarify cause and effect•30 minutes
- Challenge Your Assumptions•30 minutes
- Beware of cognitive biases•30 minutes
- Exercise critical thinking•30 minutes
- Invite dissent•30 minutes
- Examine assumptions as a team•30 minutes
- Anticipate Opportunities and Threats•30 minutes
- Learn how to anticipate•30 minutes
- Think creatively about the future•30 minutes
- Explore possible scenarios•30 minutes
- Pinpoint opportunities•30 minutes
1 assignment•Total 30 minutes
- Strategic Thinking Assessment•30 minutes
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
15 videos•Total 35 minutes
- Everyone Can Innovate•2 minutes
- Start with an Idea•2 minutes
- Spark Eureka Moments•2 minutes
- What Are Their “Jobs to Be Done”?•2 minutes
- Surface Your Assumptions•3 minutes
- Don't Just Define—Redefine•2 minutes
- Experiments: Small, Bigger, Biggest•4 minutes
- Reinventing the Wheel—Literally•3 minutes
- Mentor Moment: Get Their Buy-in•2 minutes
- Three Principles to Win Executive Approval•3 minutes
- How to Get Real Buy-In•2 minutes
- If at First You Don't Succeed...•2 minutes
- When Results Challenge Your Beliefs•2 minutes
- Make the Most of Mistakes•1 minute
- Learn from Successes•2 minutes
42 readings•Total 1,260 minutes
- Innovation in Action•30 minutes
- Everyday innovation•30 minutes
- Breaking it down•30 minutes
- Where you fit in•30 minutes
- Identify Innovation Opportunities•30 minutes
- Make something better•30 minutes
- Cast a wide net•30 minutes
- Connect—and reconnect—the dots•30 minutes
- Expand your options•30 minutes
- Go beyond the obvious•30 minutes
- Multiply your problems•30 minutes
- 30-Second Takeaway•30 minutes
- Prioritize Potential Innovations•30 minutes
- So many possibilities, so little time•30 minutes
- Fine-tune your solutions•30 minutes
- Decide on your highest priorities•30 minutes
- Spotlight your assumptions•30 minutes
- Frame your hypotheses•30 minutes
- 30-Second Takeaway•30 minutes
- Design Innovation Experiments•30 minutes
- Put your innovation to the test•30 minutes
- Decide what you want to learn•30 minutes
- Design your experiment•30 minutes
- Capture what you learned•30 minutes
- Refine—and test again•30 minutes
- Keep experimenting, launch, or end•30 minutes
- 30-second takeaway•30 minutes
- Build Support for Innovation•30 minutes
- Innovate together•30 minutes
- Consider who can support you•30 minutes
- Plan before you pitch•30 minutes
- Figure out what support you need•30 minutes
- Determine what’s on their radar•30 minutes
- Communicate the “win-win”•30 minutes
- 30-Second Takeaway•30 minutes
- Learn from Success and Failure•30 minutes
- Innovate better•30 minutes
- Look back, move forward•30 minutes
- Don’t let blinders get in the way•30 minutes
- Dig into successes and failures•30 minutes
- Keep the momentum going•30 minutes
- 30-Second Takeaway•30 minutes
1 assignment•Total 30 minutes
- Innovation Implementation Assessment•30 minutes
What's included
2 assignments
2 assignments•Total 60 minutes
- Course-End Assessments•30 minutes
- Course-End Projects•30 minutes
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