The Imperatives of Innovation and Leadership in Strategy





This course is designed for individuals aspiring to become strategically focused in their business operations and to innovate and lead change in their organizations. As organizations strive to keep abreast of a fast-changing business environment, the need for innovation increases. While some companies focus on incremental and continuous innovations, other companies have managed to create disruptive innovations, challenged existing incumbents, and created entirely new markets for their products or services. However, without leadership, many of these innovations go unrealized, as not all managers have the leadership qualities that ensure success. This course focuses on preparing operational managers to appreciate the relationship between innovation and leadership.


This path is for those in management who are engaging in or preparing for a more strategic role within their organization. This includes senior executives, operational managers, consultants, and business people looking to add a more strategic edge to their business activities. This path is also of benefit to business students and professionals wanting to gain knowledge of strategy as it is applied in a business context.


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Strategic Innovation

  • recognize the benefits to organizations that develop capabilities for strategic innovation
  • recognize examples of the characteristics of successful strategic innovation
  • differentiate between sustaining and disruptive innovations
  • determine whether a company is pursuing a blue ocean strategy based on its value curve
  • recognize examples of the tools and analytic frameworks used to create a blue ocean
  • match the five phases of the strategic innovation process to their descriptions

    • Strategic Leadership

  • recognize the benefits of applying strategic leadership
  • differentiate between examples of leadership and management as methods of organizing people toward a goal
  • distinguish between skills associated with management or leadership
  • recognize the skills associated with leaders
  • identify actions that demonstrate a Level 5 leader's operational style
  • match leadership levels to their descriptions


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