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TecdeMonterreyX: Organizational innovation and creativity

Business world faces challenges and opportunities that require innovative approaches and a new set of skills. This online course offers you methodologies for innovation and problem resolution.

Organizational innovation and creativity
4 weeks
5–8 hours per week
Self-paced
Progress at your own speed
Free
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Starts Apr 1

About this course

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This management course focuses on the innovation process by presenting students with methodologies for problem solving and innovation that require research, persistence, and agility.

Students will be encouraged to:

• Synthesize existing ideas, images, concepts, and skill sets in an original way

• Embrace ambiguity

• Support divergent thinking and risk taking

This course will help you become an effective innovation team leader, take on a role as an innovation executive within a large corporation, or provide entrepreneurial activity. In addition, the knowledge acquired will help you plan, apply and execute innovation skills to develop and launch new products and services.

In addition, this online course will teach you how to use innovation and business mentality and methodologies to convert opportunities into product specifications, commercial concepts and eventual introductions of these products or services to new markets.

At a glance

  • Language: Español
  • Video Transcript: English
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  • Associated skills:Problem Solving, Creativity, Management, Leadership, Innovation, Persistence

What you'll learn

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  • Analyze the external business environment and assess the competitive forces that affect the organization
  • Identify business model concepts and design unique value propositions
  • Distinguish the principles of innovation and explain innovation management
  • Apply the principles of design thinking to innovative problem solving
  • Apply based and open innovation, and results co-creation to problem solving
  • Experiencing problem solving to refine solutions

Topic 1. Nature of innovation

1.1 The Innovative Homo-Sapiens

1.2 Innovation in companies

Topic 2. The principles of innovation management

2.1 Innovation management

2.2 The culture of innovation

Topic 3. Innovation techniques

3.1 Design Thinking

3.2 Outcome Driven Innovation

Topic 4. Lean innovation

4.1 How to detect customer needs and problems

4.2 How to run experiments

Who can take this course?

Unfortunately, learners residing in one or more of the following countries or regions will not be able to register for this course: Iran, Cuba and the Crimea region of Ukraine. While edX has sought licenses from the U.S. Office of Foreign Assets Control (OFAC) to offer our courses to learners in these countries and regions, the licenses we have received are not broad enough to allow us to offer this course in all locations. edX truly regrets that U.S. sanctions prevent us from offering all of our courses to everyone, no matter where they live.

This course is part of Innovation & Entrepreneurship MicroMasters Program

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Expert instruction
6 graduate-level courses
Self-paced
Progress at your own speed
7 months
6 - 8 hours per week

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