•   Fostering Creativity and Innovativeness at Organisations ENT4HM110-3002 25.03.2024-17.05.2024  5   (MAENTE, ...) +-
    Learning objectives
    After completion of the course, student
    - is able to perceive creativity and innovation as drivers of an organization’s performance
    - understands how creativity and innovation are applied to a business opportunity recognition
    - can analyze and apply creativity and innovation to a leadership challenge
    Contents
    - creativity, innovation as drivers of an organizational performance
    - exploring problems and business opportunities
    - disruption and other forms of innovation
    - creating and leading an innovation culture
    Assessment criteria
    Assessment criteria - grade 1
    Student demonstrates a limited understanding how creativity and innovation affect organizational performance.
    Student demonstrates a limited understanding how creativity and innovation can be applied to business opportunity recognition.
    Student demonstrates limited skills in applying creativity and innovation to a leadership challenge.
    Assessment criteria - grade 3
    Student demonstrates a good argumentation how creativity and innovation affect organizational performance.
    Student demonstrates a good argumentation how creativity and innovation can be applied to business opportunity recognition.
    Student demonstrates good skills in applying creativity and innovation to a leadership challenge.
    Assessment criteria - grade 5
    Student demonstrates versatile and excellent argumentation how creativity and innovation affect organizational performance.
    Student demonstrates versatile and excellent argumentation how creativity and innovation can be applied to business opportunity recognition.
    Student demonstrates excellent skills in applying creativity and innovation to a leadership challenge.
    Teaching methods and instruction

    Learning takes place through online meetings. Learning methods mean flipped classroom, facilitated online workshops, individual studies including information retrieval, analyses and a real-life application of creativity and innovation + inspirational speeches and cases by external visitors.

    Learning material and recommended literature

    Dawson, P., Andriopoulos, C. Managing Change, Creativity & Innovation. Sage 2014.
    Dyer, J., Gregersen, H., Christensen, C.M. The Innovator’s DNA. Mastering the Five Skills of Disruptive Innovators. Harvard Business Review Press 2019.
    Goller, I., Bessant, J. Creativity for Innovation Management. Routledge 2017.
    Kelley, T. The Ten Faces of Innovation. Profile Books Ltd 2006.
    HBR’s 10 Must Reads. On Creativity. Harvard Business Review Press 2021.
    Rehn, A. Innovation for the Fatigued. How to build a culture of deep creativity. KoganPage 2019.
    + other lecture material on Moodle.

    Working life connections

    The implementation will include 2-3 inspiring external visitors representing creativity and innovativeness related expertise in various fields of life and business. The learning assignments are related also to learners' own working life context.

    Campus

    Pasila Campus

    Exam dates and re-exam possibilities

    No exam!

    Teaching language

    English

    Internationality

    The content of the implementation, including the assignments, provide an international perspective on the learning objectives.

    Timing

    25.03.2024 - 17.05.2024

    Learning assignments

    Assignment 1: Self-reflection and connections to your own work and your employer/company (Pass/Fail) Assignment 2: Company case of creativity & innovativeness (60 %) Assignment 3: Leading creativity & innovativeness (40 %)

    Enrollment

    02.01.2024 - 22.03.2024

    Content scheduling

    ZOOM sessions starting at 17.40:
    4th April: Kick-off: Introduction of the learning objectives and methods
    11th April: Workshop 1: Creativity and innovation frameworks
    18th April: Workshop 2: Business opportunity recognition 1; design-creativity-innovativeness
    EXTERNAL VISITOR FROM TACTIC GAMES OY
    25th April: Workshop 3: Business opportunity recognition 2; from creativity to imagination
    2nd May: Workshop 4: Nurturing an innovative organizational culture
    EXTERNAL VISITOR: Mrs. Iris Humala, Iris Consulting Ky
    16th May: Workshop 5: Creativity & Innovation exhibition

    Groups
    • MAENTE
    • EVENING
    • BLENDED
    • MAENTF
    • EXCH
    • ONLINE
    Alternative learning methods

    If students have acquired the required competence in previous work tasks, recreational activities or on another course, they can show their competence via a demonstration and thus progress faster through their studies. More information and instructions for recognizing and validating prior learning (RPL) are available at MyNet.

    Teachers

    Olli Laintila

    Seats

    31 - 60

    Further information

    Assessment is based on the criteria of the Course Description.

    Degree Programme

    BUTEM Degree Programme in Business Technologies, ATBUM Degree Programme in Aviation and Tourism Business, LEBUM Degree Programme in Leading Business Transformation, HOSBUM Degree Programme in Tourism and Hospitality Business

    R&D proportion

    0.00 cr

    Virtual proportion

    3.00 cr

    Evaluation scale

    H-5