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Innovation Leadership (The Georgia Institute of Technology)

In this original course, Innovation Leadership, former Medtronic Chair & CEO Professor Bill George, shows you how to become an innovation leader. The essential elements of knowing yourself and your unique leadership gifts, your motivations, and the purpose of your leadership will be covered by Professor George, along with personal stories of exceptional innovation leaders, concepts, exercises, tools and practical tips to help you become an exceptional innovation leader.

Futures Thinking Specialization (the Institute for the Future)

The Futures Thinking specialization is for anyone who wants to spot opportunities for innovation and invention faster. You can gain the skills and confidence to help YOU become someone who makes the future, instead of letting the future happen to you. You'll develop a more future-oriented mindset to make positive changes in your own life, as you start to see new possibilities more clearly and craft the personal future you want. This specialization is based on the “How to Think Like a Futurist” workshops taught by Jane McGonigal, PhD for Stanford University Continuing Studies. By taking this specialization, you'll have access to key lessons and tools from the Institute for the Future’s professional “Foresight Training” certification program.

Anticipating Your Next Battle, in Business and Beyond (HEC Paris)

By the end of the course, you’ll be able to account for the broader context and the possible convergence of long-term trends, and thus be able to develop a long-term, consistent strategy and vision, beyond mere day-to-day tactics. Thanks to this approach and mindset, you will become more agile and more resilient in a highly complex and uncertain landscape.

Leading in the Digital Age (Boston University)

Leading in the Digital Age uses interactive tools to help you apply in real time what you learn from the content, other participants, and your own experience, to dynamically lead continuous innovation and change.

Innovation Through Design: Think, Make, Break, Repeat | Coursera (University of Sydney)

In this course, we demonstrate how you can use design as a way of thinking to provide strategic and innovative advantages within your profession. Suitable for anyone who is curious about design and translating the processes and tools of design thinking into innovative opportunities, over 5 weeks we explore, apply and practice the design process: think, make, break and repeat.

u.lab: Leading From the Emerging Future (MIT)

This course is an introduction to a method called Theory U, developed at MIT, for leading such change in business, government, and civil society contexts worldwide. u.lab will guide you in applying Theory U to an issue that matters to you, building your capacity to lead transformative change in the process. You will do so with fellow change-makers locally and around the world. Join us as we co-pioneer new approaches to today’s most important social and environmental challenges.

Creativity, Innovation and Transformation | Coursera (PennState)

Our lives are being disrupted by pandemics, global warming, wars, political chaos, and technological innovations. We must prepare for an unpredictable and unknown future - and this is the goal of the course on Creativity, Innovation and Transformation (CIT)! CIT is an upgrade of the former Creativity, Innovation and Change (CIC) course, which is now streamlined and updated with a new module on Transformation.

Digital Transformation (University of Virginia)

Digital transformation is a hot topic--but what exactly is it and what does it mean for companies? In this course, developed at the Darden School of Business at the University of Virginia, and led by top-ranked Darden faculty and Boston Consulting Group global management experts, we talk about digital transformation in two ways. First we discuss the pace of change and the imperative it creates for businesses. Next we provide the context for this transformation and what it takes to win in the digital age. Then we walk through BCG's proprietary framework, which helps you identify key areas to digitize, including strategy, core processes, and technology

Responsible Innovation: Ethics, Safety and Technology (UT Delft)

The first part of the course focuses on ethical questions and concerns and our responsibilities with respect to new technologies. The second part deals with (unknown) risks and safety of technologies including a number of qualitative and quantitative risk assessment methods. It also addresses the need for regulation (and challenges) when it comes to emerging technologies. The last part of the course will introduce you to Value Sensitive Design, which takes into account our societal concerns and values as the starting point for innovation. The methodology – including dealing with value conflicts- will be explained.

Developing Breakthrough Innovations with the Three Box Solution (Dartmouth)

An introduction to strategy and innovation expert Vijay Govindarajan's Three Box framework that has the potential to transform any organization that embraces it.

Agile Innovation and Problem Solving Skills (University of Maryland)

Innovative products and services change lives, and having the right innovative process creates an competitive advantage. Ultimately, innovation is about one thing: problem solving.

The Future of Work: Preparing for Disruption (World Bank Group)

Workers of the future will need new sets of skills to compete. Recent advances in technology are changing how we live, communicate and do business, disrupting traditional industries and redefining the employee-employer relationship.

AI for Leaders (Babson College)

Research from the World Economic Forum (WEF) and Mckinsey shows that AI will increasingly disrupt what we do, who does it and how all work is done – e.g. humans versus machines. On the positive side, AI is expected to add significant growth and value to the world’s economy for the companies and countries that get it. As such, it is more important than ever that all leaders, managers, executives and board members develop their AI skills to compete and prosper in the AI world.

Fintech: The Future of Finance (The University of Texas at Austin)

After the completion of this certificate program, you will be an expert in the intersection of financial and technology.

Harness the power of blockchain and cryptocurrencies (University of California, Berkeley)

Enterprise-level blockchain implementations and understand the scaling struggles of blockchain and potential solutions

Blockchain Opportunity Analysis (INSEAD)

As an outcome of this course, you’ll walk away with a consolidated, peer-reviewed Blockchain Opportunity Analysis, which you can use to pitch your idea to your organization or even to potential investors.

How Virtual Reality Works (UC San Diego)

In this course, you will explore the basics of virtual reality software through copying and modifying JavaScript to explore tradeoffs in VR application design. Extensive programming experience is not required.

Quantum Computing for Everyone (University of Chicago)

You will learn the basic physics that enables quantum computing and how quantum computing will change businesses, governments, and society.

Clayton Christensen (The Innovator's Dilemma) on How to Build a Disruptive Business

Professor Clayton Christensen talks about how to build a disruptive business at Startup Grind.

Marc Andreessen on Big Breakthrough Ideas and Courageous Entrepreneurs

Marc Andreessen, Co-Founder & Partner at Andreessen Horowitz, discusses his philosophy on investing in technical founders and the role of technology in today's startups. Andreessen also addresses the kind of entrepreneurs and ideas his venture capital firm look for: "Big breakthrough ideas often seem nuts the first time you see them."

Rita McGrath on Constantly Reconfiguring and Adapting Your Business

At the BRITE ’16 conference, Rita McGrath, Author of The End of Competitive Advantage, talked about how the nature of a long-lived competitive advantage has changed, with new entry conditions, such as network effects, taking over from traditional ones. McGrath discusses the new sources of advantage and how firms should be thinking about them in a more transient society.

Seeing Around Corners: How to Spot Inflection Points in Business Before They Happen

Paradigmatic shifts in the business landscape, known as inflection points, can either create new, entrepreneurial opportunities (see Amazon and Netflix) or they can lead to devastating consequences (e.g., Blockbuster and Toys R Us). Only those leaders who can “see around corners”–that is, spot the disruptive inflection points developing before they hit–are poised to succeed in this market.

8 Practices That Help You See Around Corners

Columbia management scholar and author Rita McGrath joins Alex Osterwalder to discuss how companies can constantly reinvent themselves, as well as the eight practices to help businesses see around corners.

Jamie Thomas - Quantum Computing: Impact of a New Compute Model

Jamie Thomas, General Manager, Systems Strategy and Development, IBM. With the advent of Quantum based computing we will be able to explore new classes of problems that have not been practical with traditional computing methods. This session will provide an overview of how businesses are looking at quantum computing as well as potential applications.

What is Responsible Innovation? (Stanford eCorner)

Ambitious technology companies will shape the 21st century. Could new frameworks help them shape it in a positive direction?

Asking Great Questions Through The Innovation Process (Strategyzer)

Hal and Alex will discuss the role of asking great questions in the innovation process. Hal Gregersen is Executive Director of the MIT Leadership Center, a Senior Lecturer in Leadership and Innovation at the MIT Sloan School of Management, co-author of "The Innovator's DNA" and author of "Questions are the Answer."

Innovation Readiness Assessment with Tendayi Viki and Alexander Osterwalder (Strategyzer)

In this session, Tendayi Viki, Associate Partner at Strategyzer, Thinkers50 2018 Radar Thinker and the author of The Corporate Startup, joins Alexander Osterwalder in an insightful discussion around how companies can assess their levels of innovation readiness using some of our latest insights from the field.

ISPIM Webinar: Building Invincible Companies with Alex Osterwalder (Strategyzer)

In this April 2019 session hosted by ISPIM, Strategyzer's Alex Osterwalder outlines what is required from organizations to survive and thrive in today’s world. He describes how to design an innovation culture, innovation portfolios, and the corresponding organizational structures while remaining world class at managing the existing business. Osterwalder will introduce a new concept that helps companies visualize if they are ready for the future or if they should fear disruption.

Startups vs Big Corporations - Who Will Win The Disruption War? Feat. Steve Blank (Strategyzer)

In this session, two founders of modern entrepreneurship -- Steve Blank, creator of the Lean Startup movement and Alex Osterwalder, inventor of the Business Model Canvas and co-founder of Strategyzer -- discuss how companies truly stay invincible through killer business models and value propositions.

StratChat with Whitney Johnson: Build An A-Team To Tackle Disruption (Strategyzer)

In this session, you will learn how to manage people all along the S-curve and what to do when they reach the top of the curve. As employees are allowed, even required, to surf their individual S-curve waves, disrupting themselves, you will not only be less vulnerable to disruption, you'll also be a boss people want to work for.

Young at Heart: How to Be an Innovator for Life (Stanford eCorner)

Tom Kelley, general manager at the world-renowned design firm, IDEO, presents five core practices that enhance creativity. Through entertaining stories and examples, he describes how these techniques help us all become more innovative in every aspect of our lives and lead to more success.

Delivering Innovation for the Enterprise (Stanford eCorner)

Box.net CEO Aaron Levie is an entrepreneur who seeks to reinvent how enterprise businesses share content across their organizations. In 2005, Levie saw the need for affordable storage on the Internet, and co-founded Box.net out of his college dorm room. In this high-energy lecture, Levie shares the successes and challenges of his company’s move from early-stage startup to scalable cloud technology venture.

Relentless Pursuit of Innovation (Stanford eCorner)

UCSF Chancellor Susan Desmond-Hellmann has a track record of fostering environments conducive to innovation, in both the public and private sector. In this engaging lecture, the renowned oncologist shares insights from her career in biotechnology and academia on leading teams, managing risks against rewards, and innovative product development. Desmond-Hellmann also shares her belief as to why entrepreneurs must remain relentless when it comes to pursuing their goals.

Building An Innovation Pipeline with Bosch Webinar (Strategyzer)

When making investments in innovation, leaders often falsely assume that they can pick the winning ideas on day one. But the uncertainty of innovation makes it impossible to know exactly which ideas are going to win. Our work with Bosch has shown that it is better to make many small bets and then allow the winning ideas and teams to emerge by creating the right context. Members of Bosch’s Accelerator Program join Alex Osterwalder to share how they tackle and manage innovation through their in-house accelerator using our latest tool: The Business Portfolio Map.

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• Birkinshaw, Julian, and Jonas Ridderstråle. Fast/forward: Make Your Company Fit for the Future. 2017. Print.

• Lemieux, Christiane D. M. D. Frictionless: Why the Future of Everything Will Be Fast, Fluid, and Made Just for You. 2020. Print.

• Morgan, Blake. The Customer of the Future: 10 Guiding Principles for Winning Tomorrow's Business. 2019. Print.

• Samit, Jay. Future Proofing You. 2021. Print.

• Undheim, Trond A. Future Tech: How to Capture Value from Disruptive Industry Trends. 2021. Print.

• Krippendorff, Kaihan. Driving Innovation from Within: A Guide for Internal Entrepreneurs. , 2019. Print.

• Dyer, Jeffrey H, Hal Gregersen, and Clayton M. Christensen. The Innovator's Dna: Mastering the Five Skills of Disruptive Innovators. , 2019. Print.

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Clayton Christensen is the Kim B. Clark Professor of Business Administration at the Harvard Business School, where he teaches one of the most popular elective classes for second year students, Building and Sustaining a Successful Enterprise. He is regarded as one of the world’s top experts on innovation and growth and his ideas have been widely used in industries and organizations throughout the world.

Dr. Rita McGrath is a globally recognized expert on innovation and growth strategies with an emphasis on corporate entrepreneurship. She received the #1 achievement award in Strategy from the prestigious management rankings group Thinkers50 and is consistently ranked in the Top10.