1002008 - Convergent Innovation for Sustainable Value Creation

Course Description

This 10 hour course is designed to equip startups and early-stage SME entrepreneurs with the knowledge and skills to leverage data-driven, digital-powered innovations for sustainable value creation. Participants will learn to strategically position their businesses in a competitive landscape, build team-based enterprises, and implement agile methodologies to enable convergence innovation and create value for enterprises and the ecosystem in which they evolve. The course covers key aspects that include consumer insights, design thinking, robust operations management for adaptive logistics and market access, financial planning as part of decision support systems, systems thinking as part of ecosystem building, and learning from evidence and experience.

Learning Outcomes

What You'll Learn

By the end of the course, the learner should be able to:

• Leverage data driven innovations for sustainable value creation.
• Strategically position their businesses in competitive markets.
• Build and manage innovative teams in a digital environment.
• Apply lean and agile methodologies to foster innovation.
• Utilize consumer and behavioral insights to drive product and service development.
• Implement design thinking for innovative solutions.
• Develop robust and agile operations and supply chains.

Course Topics

Module 1: Data Driven Innovations for Sustainable Value Creation

Module 2: Value Creation through Strategic Positioning in a Hyper-Competitive World

Module 3: Building Teams for Innovations in a Digital World

Module 4: Lean and Agile Innovation Ideas

Module 5: Consumer and Behavioral Insights

Module 6: Building Robust and Agile Operations and Supply Chain

Module 7: Sustainable Financial Planning and Investment

Module 8: Learning from Evidence and Experience (Implementation Science)

Module 9: Systems Thinking for Agility and Sustainability Module 10: Design Thinking for Innovations (Products and Services)