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Leading Strategic Innovation in Organizations (Vanderbilt University)
https://www.coursera.org/course/innovation This course is intended to help you improve your ability to manage creativity, innovation and change in business, education, healthcare, government, and in any other complex organization or institution by diagnosing potential innovation failures before they can occur. Using an “innovation constraints” framework that draws on modern social science research and on insights from business practice, participants will learn how to best manage people (be they co-workers, bosses, customers, clients, friends or any other stakeholders) when innovation is the goal. • • • • • • • •
The course is designed to help you answer the following types of questions: What are the conditions for successful innovation? What causes innovation to fail? What makes creative people creative? How should I manage an innovative team? How do I lead an effective brainstorm process? What is an innovation portfolio and how can I manage one? Why do so many great ideas get killed?
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International Organizations Management (universitĂŠ de Geneve)
https://www.coursera.org/course/interorg
This course provides an overview of the management challenges international organizations & NGOs are faced with. You will learn key theoretical frameworks and practical tools to excel in this environment. Course program Week 1: Introduction to International Organizations and NGOs (Julian Fleet) Week 2: The Shifting Context for International Organizations (Stefan Mergenthaler and Sebastian Buckup) Week 3: Public Private Partnerships (Gilbert Probst and Lea Stadler) Week 4: Leadership in the UN System (Bruce Jenks) Week 5: Marketing & Fundraising (Claudia Gonzalez)
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Creativity, Innovation, and Change (Pennsylvania State University)
https://www.coursera.org/course/cic In 2013, over 130,000 people from more than 190 countries came together in this MOOC to explore creativity, innovation, and change. What did they DO? They discovered creative uniqueness through Creative Diversity. They used Intelligent Fast Failure to build innovative skills. And they applied CENTER principles to drive personal change. Course program:
Week 1: The Creativity, Innovation, and Change (CIC) Mindset Week 2: Understanding Creative Diversity Week 3: The CENTER Model Week 4: Innovation Week 5: Value Creation Week 6: Launching Your Creativity, Innovation, and Change Project
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Inspiring Leadership through Emotional Intelligence (Case Western Reserve University)
https://www.coursera.org/course/lead-ei Based on decades of research into emotional intelligence competencies and longitudinal studies of their development, the course will examine resonance and developing "resonant leadership" capability, emotional intelligence, and the experiences of mindfulness, hope, and compassion. Using the latest in neuroscience, behavioral, organizational and psychological research, participants will understand the theory, research, and experience of the Positive Emotional Attractor that is an essential beginning to sustained, desired change for individuals, teams, organizations and communities. Week 1: Class 1: Resonant Leadership and the neuroscience behind it . Week 2: Class 2: Renewal as an antidote to chronic stress Week 3: Class 3: Emotional Intelligence and its link to Leadership Week 4: Class 4: Inspiring and Motivating Sustained Development, Growth and Learning Week 5: Class 5: Coaching with Compassion to Inspire Sustained Learning and Development Week 5: Class 6: Peer Coaching: With a Little Help from My Friends Week 6: Class 7: Inspiring Change through Hope and Vision – Discovery Week 7: Class 8: The Multi-Level Nature of Sustained, Desired Change Week 8: Class 9: The Real Self and Learning Agenda- Discoveries
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Foundations of Business Strategy https://www.coursera.org/course/strategy101 In this course, you will explore the underlying theory and frameworks that provide the foundations of a successful business strategy. you will develop your ability to think strategically by providing you the tools for conducting a strategic analysis . Week 1: introduce the concept of strategic analysis plus explore the impact that competitive markets have on business success. Case discussion: Google. Week 2: explore how industry structure impacts competitive outcomes and learn how to analyze industry forces. Case discussion: microbrew industry. Week 3: learn how to analyze firm capabilities and how they may provide competitive advantage. Will include a case discussion of Apple. Week 4: learn how to analyze competitive dynamics; the interplay between businesses as industries evolve. Case discussion: the game player industry. Week 5: combine our learnings to date to determine how an organization best positions itself competitively to create value. Case discussion: Piaggio. Week 6: extend our analysis to consider how businesses compete in multiple markets and learn how to analyze firm scope. Case discussion: Disney.
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Advanced Competitive Strategy https://www.coursera.org/course/advcompstrategy
In this course, you will learn necessary tools to examine complex competitive situations and find solutions for them. This course is designed for those who are eager to find out more about how companies choose strategies to obtain competitive advantage.
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You will find out how a firm can increase its profits by pursuing suitable price discrimination and product differentiation strategies including or discarding of individual steps in their value creation process.
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You will learn everything about network effects and discover how they can be used by companies to their own, as opposed to their competitors', advantage.
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You will analyse the workings of mergers and acquisitions and support you in considering the individual steps that are involved before, during and after the match-making process.
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Coursera
What is it? Education company that partners with the top universities and organizations in the world to offer FREE online courses. 400 courses in over 20 categories created by 85 Universities from 16 countries. Videos and lectures taught by world-class professors, online instruction, quizz, interactive exercises, live video and exam. Registration mandatory and specific planning for each course (courses repeated multiple times during the year). No limit in number of students per course. Certificate of accomplishment to all students that passed the course. 14
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EDX
https://www.edx.org
What is it? EdX offers interactive online classes and MOOCs from the world’s best universities.
Online courses from MITx, HarvardX, BerkeleyX, UTx and many other universities. Topics include biology, business, chemistry, computer science, economics, finance, electronics, engineering, food and nutrition, history, humanities, law, literature, math, medicine, music, philosophy, physics, science, statistics and more.
EdX is a non-profit online initiative created by founding partners Harvard and MIT
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