This online course explored how innovations emerge in business and how ideas become reality. LEARNING OUTCOMES .• Reflect on a personal idea for innovation.• Reflect on the term ‘innovation’, and identify how it is interpreted in business and within a wider context. • Compare the different types and levels of innovation and identify examples of each. • Demonstrate understanding of the key concepts, challenges and risks associated with innovation. • Explore the drivers for and challenges of innovation by investigating the cold chain process at M&S. • Explore the challenges to innovation, in particular the challenge of a ‘wicked’ problem. • Reflect on the challenges of a serial inventor and identify sources of motivation behind developing innovative products. • Develop an innovative idea or solution to the wicked problem using clothing waste as an example. • Reflect on a chosen ‘greatest innovation’ and identify key attributes which contributed to its adoption. • Investigate the importance of collaboration in the innovation process. • Explore how collaboration helps to develop an innovative product – the M&S ‘iconic’ suit. • Record your understanding of key topics related to innovation through quizzes and tests. SYLLABUS • Types and levels of innovation, and how they play an important part in defining business success. • Case study of incremental innovation: the development of clothing at M&S from the 1950s to the present day. • Case studies: radical innovations which provide clear benefits, but have the potential to be disruptive innovations. • Drivers for innovation and the challenges faced by using innovation to sustain or move a business forward. • Case study: the challenges M&S faced in the cold chain process and the drivers for moving from frozen to chilled food. • The wicked problem of food waste: an international challenge. • The importance of open innovation.• Case study: the role of collaboration and engagement in the successful implementation of the ‘iconic’ M&S suit. • People as inspiration: achieving success by engaging with those who will adopt the innovation. • r

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Alejandro Motta
has completed the following course:
INNOVATION: THE KEY TO BUSINESS SUCCESS
UNIVERSITY OF LEEDS
This online course explored how innovations emerge in business and how ideas become reality.
3 weeks, 4 hours per week
Dan Trowsdale
University of Leeds
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Alejandro Motta
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INNOVATION: THE KEY TO BUSINESS SUCCESS
UNIVERSITY OF LEEDS
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This online course explored how innovations
emerge in business and how ideas become
reality.
STUDY REQUIREMENT
3 weeks, 4 hours per week
LEARNING OUTCOMES
SYLLABUS
Reflect on a personal idea for innovation.•
Reflect on the term ‘innovation’, and identify how
it is interpreted in business and within a wider
context.
•
Compare the different types and levels of
innovation and identify examples of each.
•
Demonstrate understanding of the key concepts,
challenges and risks associated with innovation.
•
Explore the drivers for and challenges of
innovation by investigating the cold chain
process at M&S.
•
Explore the challenges to innovation, in
particular the challenge of a ‘wicked’ problem.
•
Reflect on the challenges of a serial inventor and
identify sources of motivation behind developing
innovative products.
•
Develop an innovative idea or solution to the
wicked problem using clothing waste as an
example.
•
Reflect on a chosen ‘greatest innovation’ and
identify key attributes which contributed to its
adoption.
•
Investigate the importance of collaboration in
the innovation process.
•
Explore how collaboration helps to develop an
innovative product – the M&S ‘iconic’ suit.
•
Record your understanding of key topics related
to innovation through quizzes and tests.
•
Types and levels of innovation, and how they
play an important part in defining business
success.
•
Case study of incremental innovation: the
development of clothing at M&S from the 1950s
to the present day.
•
Case studies: radical innovations which provide
clear benefits, but have the potential to be
disruptive innovations.
•
Drivers for innovation and the challenges faced
by using innovation to sustain or move a
business forward.
•
Case study: the challenges M&S faced in the
cold chain process and the drivers for moving
from frozen to chilled food.
•
The wicked problem of food waste: an
international challenge.
•
The importance of open innovation.•
Case study: the role of collaboration and
engagement in the successful implementation of
the ‘iconic’ M&S suit.
•
People as inspiration: achieving success by
engaging with those who will adopt the
innovation.
•
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