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Oxford Saïd: Oxford Strategic Innovation Programme

Explore and develop future-focused innovation strategies.

Explore and develop future-focused innovation strategies.

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6 weeks
7–10 hours per week
Starts Feb 5, 2025
Enroll by Feb 11, 2025
Instructor-paced
Instructor-led on a course schedule

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6 weeks
7–10 hours per week
Starts Feb 5, 2025
Enroll by Feb 11, 2025
Instructor-paced
Instructor-led on a course schedule

About this Course

For years, innovation has been seen as a tool for finding new solutions to current challenges, in particular those that have been brought on by technological disruption. However, it’s unlikely that the challenges of tomorrow will be anything like those we face today. In such a fast-paced and uncertain world, businesses need to develop the strategic capacity to respond to unforeseen challenges.

The Oxford Strategic Innovation Programme approaches innovation as a tool for handling challenges that can’t yet be predicted. Designed by Oxford Saïd’s leading expert on innovation, Marc Ventresca, you’ll redefine what innovation means, why it’s essential, and how it can be mobilized within your organization.

Through a critical thinking and analytical approach, you’ll explore different ways of navigating innovation and how to implement it within your organizational design, structure, and culture.

Learn to build systems that can adapt to unpredictable situations, making it a sustainable and routine practice within your organization.

This programme is suitable for senior business professionals, leaders, entrepreneurs, or consultants from all industries who want to enable innovation within their organizations. This programme will equip you with the skills to influence strategy and decision-making, and employ innovation practices within your business structure. Build an environment that is optimized for developing new ideas through fostering a culture of innovation in your organization.

Guided by global thought leaders and Oxford Saïd faculty, you’ll gain cutting-edge insights and discover new approaches to solving business challenges. As this is an industry-agnostic programme, you’ll be equipped with the tools to create increased value regardless of your business area or market sector.

Course curriculum

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Develop a toolkit for innovation as you work through the weekly modules of this online programme.

Orientation module: Welcome to your Online Campus

Module 1: A primer on innovation

Module 2: Organising for innovation

Module 3: Drivers of innovation: Technology and beyond

Module 4: 4IR technology: Ethics and governance

Module 5: Corporate innovation strategies and platforms

Module 6: Innovation in practice

About the certificate

Acquire the necessary tools to maximise innovation within your organisation and earn an official certificate of attendance from Saïd Business School, University of Oxford.

Assessment is continuous and based on a series of practical assignments completed online. In order to be issued with a digital certificate, you’ll need to meet the requirements outlined in the programme handbook. The handbook will be made available to you as soon as you begin the programme.

Your certificate will be issued in your legal name and sent to you digitally upon successful completion of the program, as per the stipulated requirements.

Some facts about the subject

29%

The percentage of companies that have increased their innovation budget since the onset of COVID-19.

_Edelman Intelligence (2020).___

59%

The share of businesses that report that company culture or entrenched attitudes are the biggest challenge when it comes to scaling innovation.

_KPMG (2020).___

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GetSmarter, an edX partner, delivers career-relevant, fully supported, and expert-led online courses from the world's leading universities and institutions. As an online learning expert with over 15 years' experience, GetSmarter leverages long-standing expertise in market research, data analysis, and business insights to ensure that you gain the skills critical to career growth.