The first project that arrived in this new stage is a request from MIA University, an online university based in Barcelona, and there are a total of 12 30-minute videos on innovation management.
It may seem like a lot of time, a lot of content, something difficult to design and execute. It had been a long time since I organized my knowledge and experience in innovation management to tell it to someone else, so I decided to broaden the focus and not only talk about the innovation management process, but also include other topics such as innovation culture, organization of collaboration, the scaling of innovations implemented in lean mode, reflections on ethics and sustainability of innovation and the identification of innovation trends of interest to organizations.
The result is a fairly complete course that starts from the following description:
Innovation is the lifeblood of successful organizations in today’s rapidly evolving business landscape. This comprehensive Innovation Management course equips students with the knowledge, skills and strategies necessary to drive innovation within their organizations.
The objectives of the course are:
● Understand the fundamentals of innovation
● Develop innovation strategy and planning.
● Manage the innovation process
● Perform Innovation Knowledge Management
● Implement innovation metrics and performance measurement.
● Create a culture favorable to innovation
● Understand open innovation and collaboration
● Think about the implementation and scaling up of innovation
● Carry out ethical and sustainable innovation
● Know future trends in innovation
Managing innovation goes far beyond the diagnosis process, innovation plan, project management, knowledge management. It talks much more about people and attitudes than about tools and technology (although it also talks about tools and technology!). And he increasingly talks and will talk more about reflection, ethics, sustainability and foresight, which is the ability to look to the future and identify impact innovations to build the world we would like it to be.