Foster a Culture of Innovation
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Foster a Culture of Innovation
This course is part of Build High-Performing Teams Specialization
Instructor: Harvard Business Review
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What you'll learn
Unlock your curiosity to spark new thinking and identify opportunities for innovation
Explore novel ideas, tap into your creativity, and take business-appropriate risks to develop promising innovations
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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There are 3 modules in this course
Organizations that innovate consistently outperform their competitors and adapt faster to changing markets. In this course, you'll learn how to cultivate creative thinking, identify breakthrough opportunities, and transform ideas into valuable solutions. Discover strategies to foster curiosity, evaluate risks strategically, and build collaborative innovation ecosystems. Boost your ability to prioritize promising innovations, design effective experiments, and create stakeholder support that drives successful implementation across your organization.
By the end of this course, learners will be able to lead comprehensive innovation initiatives by cultivating creative thinking, systematically identifying and prioritizing opportunities, implementing strategic experimentation processes, and building organizational support systems that transform innovative ideas into sustainable competitive advantages.
Teams that flex their creativity and innovate regularly are simply more successful than others. Learn how to unleash your curiosity, overcome barriers to innovation, take smart risks, and collaborate with others so your organization can continuously improve.
What's included
14 videos36 readings1 assignment
14 videos•Total 25 minutes
- "Yes, and..."•2 minutes
- Observe First, Innovate Second•2 minutes
- How to Spot Innovation Opportunities•2 minutes
- 30 Circles•1 minute
- Mind Mapping•1 minute
- Mentor Moment: Let Your Mind Wander•2 minutes
- Is Your Idea a Winner?•2 minutes
- Mentor Moment: Get Comfortable with Risk•2 minutes
- Recognize a Smart Risk•2 minutes
- A Game Plan for Setbacks•2 minutes
- The Untold Story of Penicillin•2 minutes
- Tap Your Talent•2 minutes
- Collective Genius•2 minutes
- The Common Information Effect•2 minutes
36 readings•Total 360 minutes
- Innovation for All•10 minutes
- Embrace the opportunity•10 minutes
- Start here•10 minutes
- Take stock•10 minutes
- Unlock Curiosity•10 minutes
- The spark•10 minutes
- The disconnect•10 minutes
- Asking, but not actually interested•10 minutes
- Unlock curiosity•10 minutes
- “Forget” what you know•10 minutes
- Spot opportunities•10 minutes
- A daily habit•10 minutes
- 30-Second Takeaway•10 minutes
- Make Creative Connections•10 minutes
- Build creative confidence•10 minutes
- Launch your thinking•10 minutes
- Draw, build, move•10 minutes
- Enlist the unconscious mind•10 minutes
- Solo flights and creative collaboration•10 minutes
- Creativity, meet constraint•10 minutes
- Identify the diamonds•10 minutes
- 30-Second Takeaway•10 minutes
- Take Smart Risks•10 minutes
- Do you take chances?•10 minutes
- Quiet the inner critic•10 minutes
- Start small•10 minutes
- Make smart bets•10 minutes
- Whoops! Now, what’s next?•10 minutes
- 30-second takeaway•10 minutes
- Collaborate to Innovate•10 minutes
- Inspire creative collaboration•10 minutes
- Help wanted!•10 minutes
- See beyond blind spots•10 minutes
- Collaborating while uncomfortable•10 minutes
- Collaborate productively•10 minutes
- 30-Second Takeaway•10 minutes
1 assignment•Total 30 minutes
- Innovation and Creativity•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 420 minutes
- Innovation in Action•10 minutes
- Everyday innovation•10 minutes
- Breaking it down•10 minutes
- Where you fit in•10 minutes
- Identify Innovation Opportunities•10 minutes
- Make something better•10 minutes
- Cast a wide net•10 minutes
- Connect—and reconnect—the dots•10 minutes
- Expand your options•10 minutes
- Go beyond the obvious•10 minutes
- Multiply your problems•10 minutes
- 30-Second Takeaway•10 minutes
- Prioritize Potential Innovations•10 minutes
- So many possibilities, so little time•10 minutes
- Fine-tune your solutions•10 minutes
- Decide on your highest priorities•10 minutes
- Spotlight your assumptions•10 minutes
- Frame your hypotheses•10 minutes
- 30-Second Takeaway•10 minutes
- Design Innovation Experiments•10 minutes
- Put your innovation to the test•10 minutes
- Decide what you want to learn•10 minutes
- Design your experiment•10 minutes
- Capture what you learned•10 minutes
- Refine—and test again•10 minutes
- Keep experimenting, launch, or end•10 minutes
- 30-second takeaway•10 minutes
- Build Support for Innovation•10 minutes
- Innovate together•10 minutes
- Consider who can support you•10 minutes
- Plan before you pitch•10 minutes
- Figure out what support you need•10 minutes
- Determine what’s on their radar•10 minutes
- Communicate the “win-win”•10 minutes
- 30-Second Takeaway•10 minutes
- Learn from Success and Failure•10 minutes
- Innovate better•10 minutes
- Look back, move forward•10 minutes
- Don’t let blinders get in the way•10 minutes
- Dig into successes and failures•10 minutes
- Keep the momentum going•10 minutes
- 30-Second Takeaway•10 minutes
1 assignment•Total 30 minutes
- Innovation Implementation•30 minutes
What's included
2 assignments
2 assignments•Total 60 minutes
- Course-End Assessment•30 minutes
- Course-End Project•30 minutes
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