Leading Innovation
- 8 Courses | 5h 18m 12s
- 37 Books | 36h 25m
- 6 Audiobooks | 24h 13m 39s
The success of your organization depends on its ability to innovate and keep innovating. Help your team unleash its creative potential.
COURSES INCLUDED
Welcome to the Skillsoft Leadership Development Program
Whether you are an aspiring, new, or experienced leader who leads people or projects, we've designed this curriculum to meet you where you are in your own leadership journey.
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Innovating with the Customer in Mind
In today's rapidly changing market, it is not enough to simply offer a good product or service. To stay ahead of the competition, you need to understand your customer's needs and preferences, and constantly innovate to meet those needs. In this course, you will learn the importance of customer-centric innovation and explore strategies to assess and develop a deep understanding of your customers' needs. Additionally, you will acquire design thinking skills to effectively implement the best solutions to maximize customer satisfaction and drive business growth. You will also learn approaches that can be used to build and maintain long-term customer relationships, as well as strategies for establishing a customer-focused organization.
6 videos |
23m
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Leading Innovation
In our ever-changing business world, the successful organization is the one that innovates successfully - survival depends on it. Innovation leadership plays a pivotal role by developing and supporting a culture that is open to a creative, innovative mindset. In this course, you'll learn the requirements for successful innovation and how to overcome obstacles to innovation. You'll also learn the characteristics of an innovation culture and how to establish a flexible innovation process that encourages creativity and innovative thinking in others.
7 videos |
47m
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Leadership Insights on Leading Innovation
To lead innovation you need to first avoid the mistakes leaders make in innovation. Then you need to create a space for innovation-where debate and learning can foster creativity and people can join together to do the work that matters.
34 videos |
1h 42m
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How Temporary Assignments Boost Innovation, powered by MIT SMR
The authors share details pertaining to the importance of knowledge transfer and the key considerations for implementing front-line mobility.
3 videos |
9m
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MIT SMR: Adopt Open Strategy to Fuel Innovation
Confining strategic discussions to the C-suite can limit perspectives and hamper agility. Increasingly, companies that open up strategic initiatives to a diverse group of stakeholders -even competitors - are finding better ways to stay ahead of disruption. Please join Kurt Matzler and Julia Hautz, coauthors of Open Strategy (MIT Press), as they lay out a blueprint for success with an open strategy process. They'll define what open really means, give examples, and offer ways to discern how open strategy will work for your organization.
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1h
MIT SMR: Managing Innovation's Productive Tensions
Why do most corporate innovation efforts fail to pay off, with 3 out of 4 new product releases failing to gain traction in the marketplace? Christopher Bingham and Rory McDonald argue that leaders are using dated methods to manage the innovation process - and failing to skillfully adapt to today's dynamic environments. In their new book, Productive Tensions: How Every Leader Can Tackle Innovation's Toughest Trade-Offs (MIT Press), Bingham and McDonald illuminate the competing aims inherent in innovation, such as whether to pursue efficiency or flexibility? consistency or change? product or purpose? They suggest that these conflicts, when navigated well, can provide as much opportunity as challenge.
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57m
Why Innovation Depends on Intellectual Honesty, powered by MIT SMR
In this course, the authors explain the different types of team cultures, each of which reflects a different emphasis on psychological safety and intellectual honesty and all of which support or discourage learning and innovation to different degrees. The authors also explain the four principles that are most important to achieving an innovative, high-performance team culture.
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12m
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Digital badges are yours to keep, forever.BOOKS INCLUDED
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MIT Sloan Management Review on Leading InnovationThis collection of articles from MIT Sloan Management Review discusses how technology changes quickly, but organizations change much more slowly. If you're driving change, you need to help others see the benefits.
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By MIT Sloan Management Review
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MIT Sloan Management Review Article on Lessons in Rapid Innovation From the COVID-19 PandemicThis article from MIT Sloan Management Review discusses solving problems during a crisis demands speeding up innovation by repurposing the knowledge, resources, and technology you already have at hand.
6m
By Joseph Fiksel, Keely L. Croxton, Mikaella Polyviou, Timothy J. Pettit
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MIT Sloan Management Review Article on Why Innovation's Future Isn't (Just) OpenThis article from MIT Sloan Management Review reveals that innovating with external partners doesn't always give companies a competitive advantage. It needs to be balanced with internal efforts.
11m
By Didier Bonnet, Neil C. Thompson, Yun Ye
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MIT Sloan Management Review Article on The Five Stages of Successful InnovationThis article from MIT Sloan Management Review discusses how defining an innovation process increases companies' future value.
3m
By Alissa Mariello
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MIT Sloan Management Review Article on Spark Team Creativity by Embracing UncertaintyIn this article from MIT Sloan Management Review, learn why focusing on getting the creative process just right can hamper your team's innovation.
2m
By Aithan Shapira
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MIT Sloan Management Review Article on Unleashing Innovation With Collaboration PlatformsThis article from MIT Sloan Management Review talks about how digital collaboration platforms provide innovation opportunities for diverse and distributed teams.
5m
By Likoebe Maruping, Massimo Magni
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MIT Sloan Management Review Article on The Great Innovation DecelerationThis article from MIT Sloan Management Review discusses how our response to the COVID-19 pandemic could damage the world's collective brain.
4m
By Carl Benedikt Frey
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MIT Sloan Management Review Article on Grow Faster by Changing Your Innovation NarrativeThis article from MIT Sloan Management Review reveals that companies that grow sales faster than industry rivals articulate a coherent, compelling innovation narrative and rely on four powerful levers to make it a reality.
12m
By George S. Day, Gregory P. Shea
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MIT Sloan Management Review Article on Growth Opportunities for Brands During the COVID-19 CrisisIn this article from MIT Sloan Management Review, learn how small and mid-tier brands have unique opportunities to provide value in the new consumer environment.
8m
By Jonathan Knowles, Joseph Dollens, Patrick Lynch, Richard Ettenson
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MIT Sloan Management Review Article on Accelerating Innovation Through a Network of EcosystemsThis article from MIT Sloan Management Review reveals what companies can learn from one of the world's largest networks of accelerator labs.
13m
By Elizabeth J. Altman, Frank Nagle
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MIT Sloan Management Review Article on Managing the Flow of Ideas in a PandemicThis article from MIT Sloan Management Review provides tools and tactics for maximizing effective communication and decision-making while minimizing the spread of illness.
4m
By Alex “Sandy” Pentland
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MIT Sloan Management Review Article on History's Lessons on Competitive InnovationThis article from MIT Sloan Management Review talks about how history offers unexpected lessons on how to innovate at speed today.
7m
By Patrick Stoy, Steven Spear
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MIT Sloan Management Review Article on How Digital Twins Are Reinventing InnovationThis article from MIT Sloan Management Review discusses how digital replicas are changing the face and pace of innovation.
6m
By Mark Purdy, Ray Eitel-Porter, Robert Krüger, Thijs Deblaere
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MIT Sloan Management Review Article on The New DisruptersThis article from MIT Sloan Management Review explains why a new breed of disrupters is making it harder than ever for traditional businesses to compete.
11m
By Rita Gunther McGrath
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MIT Sloan Management Review Article on Great Ideas Are Getting Harder to FindThis article from MIT Sloan Management Review reveals that unless we keep raising research inputs, economic growth will continue to slow in advanced nations.
3m
By Chad Jones, John Van Reenen, Michael Webb, Nicholas Bloom
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MIT Sloan Management Review Article on Overcoming the Innovator's ParadoxThis article from MIT Sloan Management Review examines the techniques companies use to win support for new ideas.
16m
By Jeff Dyer, Mike Hendron, Nathan Furr
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MIT Sloan Management Review Article on Winning With Open Process InnovationThis article from MIT Sloan Management Review discusses how when manufacturers develop a process innovation, they frequently seek to keep it under wraps. But that's often not the best approach.
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By Georg von Krogh, Martin Wörter, Torbjørn Netland
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MIT Sloan Management Review Article on Four Skills Tomorrow's Innovation Workforce Will NeedIn this article from MIT Sloan Management Review, learn how the young digerati will lead innovation, but they'll also need to develop business awareness, an entrepreneurial attitude, bottom-line focus, and ethical intelligence.
12m
By Greg Brown, Sebastian K. Fixson, Tucker J. Marion
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MIT Sloan Management Review Article on Navigating the Leadership Challenges of Innovation EcosystemsThis article from MIT Sloan Management Review provides an interview with Ron Adner, the David T. McLaughlin professor of strategy at the Tuck School of Business on innovation ecosystems.
5m
By Frieda Klotz, Ron Adner
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MIT Sloan Management Review Article on The Changing Face of Innovation in ChinaThis article from MIT Sloan Management Review discusses how foreign companies must retool their R&D strategies to keep pace with newly innovative Chinese enterprises.
16m
By Dan Prud’homme, Max von Zedtwitz
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MIT Sloan Management Review Article on The Promise of Targeted InnovationThis article from MIT Sloan Management Review reveals that large players in the consumer goods industry might see better returns from their R&D if they copied their smaller competitors.
11m
By Gregory S. Carpenter, Marcel Corstjens, Tushmit M. Hasan
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MIT Sloan Management Review Article on The Discipline of CreativityIn this article from MIT Sloan Management Review, you'll learn the ways that creativity - a crucial element of agility - can be woven into our work lives.
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By MIT Sloan Management Review
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MIT Sloan Management Review Article on Inspiring Employee CreativityIn this article from MIT Sloan Management Review, you'll learn why it is important for leaders to encourage creativity in their people.
6m
By MIT Sloan Management Review
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MIT Sloan Management Review Article on Why Learning Is Central to Sustained InnovationIn this article from MIT Sloan Management Review, you'll learn the values of a skilled workforce.
17m
By MIT Sloan Management Review
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MIT Sloan Management Review Article on Breaking Logjams in Knowledge WorkIn this article from MIT Sloan Management Review, learn how organizations can improve task flow and prevent overload.
18m
By Don Kieffer, Nelson P. Repenning, Sheila Dodge
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MIT Sloan Management Review Article on The Dandelion Principle: Redesigning Work for the Innovation EconomyIn this article from MIT Sloan Management Review, you'll learn the value of eccentric or unusual people within the workplace.
11m
By MIT Sloan Management Review
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MIT Sloan Management Review Article on Make Your Crowd SmartThis article from MIT Sloan Management Review provides a framework for tailoring your crowdsourcing approach to the complexity of your innovation challenge.
4m
By Anita W. Woolley, Christoph Riedl, Gerald C. Kane
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The Four Lenses of Innovation: A Power Tool for Creative ThinkingWith a unique full-color design, thought-provoking examples, and features like the 8-Step Model for Building a Breakthrough, this thorough book identifies four key business perspectives that will enable you to discover groundbreaking opportunities for innovation and growth.
4h 26m
By Rowan Gibson
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Innovating: A Doer's Manifesto for Starting from a Hunch, Prototyping Problems, Scaling Up, and Learning to Be Productively Wrong, Illustrated EditionInnovating is for doers: you don't need to wait for an earth-shattering idea, but can build one with a hunch and scale it up to impact. This unique book describes how to create a kit for innovating and outlines questions that will help you think in new ways.
5h 52m
By Luis Perez-Breva
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Presumptive Design: Design Provocations for InnovationProviding actionable approaches to inform strategy and problem definition through design thinking, this book offers a design-based research method to complement existing market, ethnographic and customer research methods.
6h 1m
By Charles Lambdin, Leo Frishberg
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Design Thinking for Strategic Innovation: What They Can't Teach You at Business or Design SchoolProviding a toolkit to apply concepts for immediate use in everyday work, this comprehensive playbook presents a framework for design thinking that is relevant to business management, marketing, and design strategies.
1h 36m
By Idris Mootee
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7 Principles of Transformational Leadership: Create a Mindset of Passion, Innovation, and GrowthYou may have employees with all the talent in the world, but you'll never achieve remarkable results until you change your employees' mindset. This thoughtful resource will help you convert your human potential into accelerated business results.
3h 4m
By Hugh Blane
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Jobs to Be Done: A Roadmap for Customer-Centered InnovationPacked with examples from every industry, this guide gives you a clear-cut framework for thinking about your business, outlines a roadmap for discovering new markets, new products and services, and helps you generate creative opportunities to innovate your way to success.
2h 35m
By David Farber, Jessica Wattman, Stephen Wunker
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Humanity Works: Merging Technologies and People for the Workforce of the FutureRevealing what the 'robot takeover' will really look like, how talent and machines can work side by side and how you can make organizational structures more agile and innovation focused, this book will prepare you to lead organizations of the future.
3h 54m
By Alexandra Levit
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MIT Sloan Management Review Article on The Myth of the MainstreamChasing the mass market is a losing proposition for marketers in a polarized culture. Allying with the subculture that loves you is the best way to drive brand success.
5m
By Marcus Collins
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The People Equation: Why Innovation is People, not ProductsTeaching leaders how to focus on people development rather than product development, this book provides you with a formula for exponentially increasing out-of-the-box thinking in your organization and multiplying your chances for greater growth and success.
2h 44m
By David Crawley, Deborah Perry Piscione
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Disrupt Yourself: Putting the Power of Disruptive Innovation to WorkWhether you are a self-starter ready to make a disruptive pivot in your business, a high-potential individual charting your career trajectory, a manager looking to instill innovating thinking amongst your team, or a leader facing industry changes that make for an uncertain future, this book will help you understand how the frameworks of disruptive innovation can apply to your particular path.
1h 53m
By Whitney Johnson
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AUDIOBOOKS INCLUDED
AUDIOBOOK SUMMARY
Making Innovation Work: How to Manage It, Measure It and Profit From ItMaking Innovation Work shows how your company can profit if you manage innovation intelligently. In this Review, we discuss the salient points of the book based on our interpretation of its contents.
11m 46s
By Marc J. Epstein, Robert D. Shelton, Tony Davila
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Disrupt Yourself: Putting the Power of Disruptive Innovation to WorkThis audio edition will help you understand how the frameworks of disruptive innovation can apply to you.
3h 25m 43s
By Whitney Johnson
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The People Equation: Why Innovation Is People, Not ProductsThis audio edition enables leaders to create a culture where psychological safety is a given, risk taking is embraced, and collaboration between highly competent people is nurtured.
4h 50m 5s
By David Crawley, Deborah Perry Piscione
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Digital Disruption: Unleashing the Next Wave of InnovationThis audio edition will show you how to assess your readiness, learn the disruptive mindset, and innovate rapidly, starting right within your own business. Read by the author.
5h 50m 28s
By James McQuivey
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Jobs To Be Done: A Roadmap for Customer-Centered InnovationThis audio edition gives you a clear-cut framework for thinking about your business, outlines a roadmap for discovering new markets, new products and services, and helps you generate creative opportunities to innovate your way to success.
4h 52m 28s
By David Farber, Jessica Wattman, Stephen Wunker
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Little Bets: How Breakthrough Ideas Emerge from Small DiscoveriesThis audio edition provides a fascinating look at how visionary leaders and creative thinkers-from Ludwig van Beethoven to Apple CEO Steve Jobs-use a process of small, experimental steps to test new ideas and achieve breakthrough results.
5h 3m 9s
By Peter Sims
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SKILL BENCHMARKS INCLUDED
Leading the Business
Becoming a successful business leader means more than just directing and motivating your people. It also requires understanding the business you're in and making sure that you're making decisions that will help your company meet its goals. In this Leading the Business Unit Benchmark, you'll be able to make a frank assessment of your current skills in strategic planning and execution, identifying your strengths and recognizing areas of weaknesses that will benefit from further learning and growth. This benchmark evaluates your understanding of this topic. Being aware of potential knowledge gaps allows you to better understand your current competency and areas for improvement, so you can find suitable content and curate your own learning path. The courses recommended at the end of this benchmark can help you fill potential gaps in your knowledge.
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