BUSI 5510 - Managing Innovation and Creativity

3 hours

Creativity and innovation are keys to an organization’s ability to gain competitive advantage and survive in today’s and, even more important, tomorrow’s marketplace. This course provides students with an understanding of how creativity and innovation can be facilitated and managed in a work setting using three forms of thinking…design thinking, systemic thinking and systems thinking. Students learn about theoretical conceptualizations of these thinking constructs as well as practical applications involved in fostering creativity and innovation in the workplace. Students play an active role in learning through live projects, class exercises, class discussions, dialogue with guest speakers, participating in industry visits, and presentations about real (or planned) innovations in organizations. This course focuses on understanding how to apply the methodologies learnt to challenges in business and society.

Prerequisite(s): Admission to the full-time cohort MBA in Management.

Course specific fees (in addition to tuition and mandatory):
Academic (AF) per hour: $15.50