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Innovation management

Name: Innovation management
Rating: 3.8 (50 reviews)

Change your organization to more dynamic, challenge status quo. Don't limit absorptive capacity, and be more innovative!

Created byJouni Ruotanen

Last updated 6/2025

English

What you'll learn

Innovation Management
Innovation Management Practice
Innovation Management Tools
Innovating Techniques
Change Management
Brainstorming Techniques
Prototyping Techniques

Course content

9 sections • 110 lectures • 3h 48m total length

What you'll learn about Innovation Management1:37
Shortly about all course materials and lectures
Motivation1:02
How to be more innovative and manage success
Welcome0:33
Let's start learning Innovation management!
Introduction2:30
What's Innovation management and what you can study during this course
The Distruptions1:07
Innovation management disruptions

What you'll learn about Innovation Management Theories2:21
Learn about innovation management theories
Introduction to Innovation Management Theories0:58
Theories about Innovation management, what's in this section
Types of Innovation1:06
How to classify different innovations by type
Disruptive versus Sustaining Innovation0:57
Differences between disruptive and sustaining innovation
Radical versus Incremental Innovation0:44
Differences between radical and incremental innovation
Architectural versus Modular Innovation0:51
Differences between architectural and modular innovation
Innovation Types Quiz
The Innovation Matrix2:09
How to use innovation matrix to see current level of innovating capabilities
Targets of Innovation0:58
Which areas or targets innovations can happen
Business Model Innovation1:03
What's business model innovation
Examples for Business Model Innovation2:41
What kind of innovations can be made for business model
Technological Innovation0:43
What's technological innovation
Examples for Technological Innovation1:57
What kind of innovations are technological
Marketing Innovation0:49
What's marketing innovation
Examples for Marketing Innovation3:08
What kind of innovations can be made for marketing
Innovator's Dilemma1:16
Why successful companies can sometimes have problems with new entrants
Innovation Adopters1:03
Which category of innovation adapters your organization goes
Creative Destruction2:02
How to define creative destruction to see new way to divide wealth
Absorptive Capacity1:20
Organizations need good absorptive capacity to be innovative
Resilience1:29
Adapting changes or surviving in crisis needs resilience
Innovation Theories Quiz

What you'll about Change Management1:05
Learn about change management
Introduction to Change Management0:57
This section you will get to know change management
Change Management as a process1:51
Do changes like a process
Change Management as a continuous situation0:58
Be in a continuous change situation
Business Process Changes1:08
What are business process changes
Tools: Total Quality Management4:52
Put customer in the center and use total quality management
Practice: Total Quality Management0:37
This is your task for making your first practice in Total Quality Management, next lecture will give you an answer how to solve it
Case: Benefits for Using Total Quality Management1:19
What benefits TQM may have for companies
Market Changes0:52
What are market changes
Tools: Porter's Five Forces5:35
Learn from Porter to recognize market changes
Case: A New Product Will Subsidize Old Offering1:31
What new products may use existing portfolio
Organizational Changes1:10
What are organizational changes
Tools: Knowledge Sharing Spiral3:44
Think about how knowledge is transferring to different forms inside organization
Product Changes0:48
What are product changes
Tools: Maturity Model3:54
Understand maturity model to position your products
Case: Old Giant Need to React New Entrant1:33
Competition situation is changing
Change Types Quiz

What you'll learn about Innovation Management Processes0:52
Learn innovation management processes
Introduction to Innovation Management Processes0:54
How to setup Innovation Management processes
Innovation Management as a process1:06
Innovate by setting up processes
Innovation management as a continuous situation0:57
Innovate by encouraging people and organization
Managing Business Process Innovations0:55
What are business process innovations
Tools: Value Stream Mapping6:15
Use value stream mapping to see useless tasks or steps
Practice: Value stream mapping0:42
This is your task for making your first practice in value stream mapping, next lecture will give you an answer how to solve it
Case: Model for feature development2:19
Use value stream mapping to improve feature development
Managing Market Innovations0:55
What are market innovations
Tools: PEST Analysis4:03
Use PEST analysis to understand market situation
Practice: PEST analysis0:44
You will learn how to analyze political, economical, social and technological aspects of strategic decision
Case: New Market Entry3:19
New markets have benefits and possibilities but also risks
Managing Organizational Innovations1:28
What are organizational innovations
Tools: Balanced Scorecard4:51
Use balanced scorecard to know where organization is going
Practice: Balanced scorecard0:42
You will learn in this case how you can build reporting based on balanced scorecard
Case: Balanced Scorecard in Action2:07
How to use balanced scorecard
Managing Product Innovations1:15
What are product innovations
Tools: SWOT Analysis3:24
Use SWOT analysis to know strengths, weaknesses, opportunities and threats in your products
Practice: SWOT analysis0:42
This is your task for making your first SWOT analysis, next lecture will give you an answer how to solve it
Case: New product or product line3:29
How to use SWOT analysis
Innovation Management Process Quiz

What you'll learn about Innovation Management Tools1:37
Learn innovation management tools
Introduction to Innovation Management Tools0:53
How to use different tools to be more innovative
Brainstorming tools0:57
Start by calling people for brainstorming
Tools: Multiply1:05
Make more ideas by multiplying
Tools: Suggest1:31
Generate more ideas by suggesting
Prototyping tools1:12
A more mature way to generate idea further is building a prototype
Tools: Design Thinking2:13
Use design thinking to see results after a good idea and building a prototype
Practice: Design thinking0:21
You will learn how to think about possible design thinking use cases
Case: Solve issue with one part in product2:07
Use design thinking to find a solution
Project Management0:47
Three dimensions scope, budget and schedule to make new innovations fly
Tools: Earned Value Management6:51
See project progress by using earned value management
Portfolio Management1:03
Manage your portfolio by seeing status and selecting directions
Tools: Growth-Share Matrix4:32
Classify your portfolio
Practice: Growth-share matrix0:46
You will in this practice a technique for classifying decisions
Case: Decision Matrix7:20
Classify decisions
Innovation Management Quiz

What you'll learn about Innovation Management Practice1:01
Learn innovation management practice
Introduction to Innovation Practice0:50
Make innovations happen by setting up practices
Continuous improvement1:06
Improve daily basis to be more innovative
Tools: Bench-marking Introduction2:21
Bench-marking is a great way to learn from others
Tools: Bench-marking Activities2:31
What kind of activities are needed in bench-marking
Prepare organization1:13
Make changes to your organization that will encourage people to innovate
Tools: Change Readiness Survey3:00
Know the current status to be ready for changes
Setup teams and departments0:56
What you need to think once selecting teams
Tools: Common Rules and Norms2:43
To have rules and norms you're able to success
Take care of the people1:50
Remember to take care of people by different ways
Tools: Empowering Team3:16
Give power to decide, activate people
Tools: Empowering Team Framework3:11
What's the empowering method for framework
Afterwards actions1:10
What you can do after basic setup
Tools: Feedback2:14
Ask and give feedback
Practice: Feedback0:45
You learn how to use feedback collecting to solve issue with your project
Case: One team issue and solution2:08
Take feedback to management solution
Innovation Practice Quiz

What you learn about program management1:47
Shortly about learnings in this section
Innovation Program Management2:49
What you need to know about innovation programs
Program orientation3:00
Be ready for program management
Introduction to program and project differences0:42
What's different in programs and projects
Program and project differences3:40
What's different in programs and projects
Program goals and target2:08
Setup right goal and target
Program planning2:34
Plan your program right
Program team2:34
How to decide right team
Program time3:10
How time is managed in programs
Program outcomes3:10
What kind of outcomes to expect

Requirements

Attitude to be future-oriented
Basic knowledge about management
Open mind for changes
Willingness to make ideas flow

Description

This course has been recently updated with real-life case examples for innovation projects! Get your kick start for innovation management through these practical, useful skills and tips. The pandemic times has put us into everyday innovation push which can be solved by learning the ways of innovative thinking and best practice. Enroll today to start your future!

Innovation management combines both change management and management of innovation process. Innovation can be in product, business process, marketing or organization.

In this course you'll learn basics about innovation management like different types of innovation, different ways to innovate and how you can change your organization's everyday life into encouraging innovation, challenging existing and improving market position.

Starting point can be set to do improvement continuously, have habits or skills for tools and techniques. After more mature level is reached, organization becomes able to do even bigger changes, not just copy.

Changes can be managed systematically and it’s about organization’s ability to do changes and be prepared. Certain tools and techniques are needed in order to make them happen not only by sudden but by adding more chances for new ideas to fly openly.

It’s important to learn how to make ideas, but also how to prioritize, classify and evaluate them. To put innovation into practice decide your organization’s way to react, do and enhance innovation capabilities. Start with small steps, build more during the process.

You will learn how to use tools to be innovative

Total Quality Management
Porter's Five Forces
Knowledge Sharing Spiral
Maturity Model
Value Stream Mapping
PEST Analysis
Balanced Scorecard
SWOT Analysis
Brainstorming by Multiply and Suggest
Design Thinking
Earned Value Management
Growth-Share Matrix
Change Readiness Survey

And also techniques like

Benchmark current to something better
Setup common rules and norms
Empower your team
How to give feedback

By combining basic knowledge and learning tools and techniques you'll be able to change into INNOVATIVE, CREATIVE and FUTURE-ORIENTED manager. Learn in this course more or start from the beginning, just enroll today!

The message from Kaizen: "Let no day pass without any improvement in the company"

Who this course is for:

Current managers of teams
Innovators looking for improvement
People planning a career shift to management

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Course content

Introduction5 lectures • 7min