Course curriculum

  • 1

    Pre-Jumpstart

    • Pre-Jumpstart Syllabus

    • RSAF Acceleration and Leadership Assessment

    • VIDEO: Teaching Your Leaders How to Learn

    • READING: "Moon Shots for Management"

    • READING: "The Innovator's DNA"

    • READING: "How Innovative is your Company's Culture"

    • READING: "Creativity and the Role of the Leader"

    • READING: "Innovation as a Learning Process: Embedding Design Thinking"

    • READING: "Reclaim Your Creative Confidence"

    • READING: "Design Thinking"

    • READING: "Managing Yourself: Collaborating with Creative Peers"
  • 2

    Jumpstart

    • Jumpstart Syllabus

    • VIDEO: Intro to Innovation Code

    • VIDEO: Creative Power of Constructive Conflict

    • VIDEO: Creative Thinking

    • QUIZ: Creative Thinking

    • VIDEO: Practice Prismatic Thinking

    • QUIZ: Prismatic Thinking

    • VIDEO: Assess to Progress

    • QUIZ: Assess to Progress

    • VIDEO: How to Think About Growth

    • QUIZ: How to Think About Growth

    • VIDEO: Case Study

    • VIDEO: Innovation Processes

    • QUIZ: Innovation Processes

    • READING: "The Seven Deadly Sins of Innovation Leader"

    • ARTICLE: "Build an Innovation Engine in 90 Days"

    • READING: "You Need an Innovation Strategy"
  • 3

    Phase 1

    • Phase 1 Syllabus

    • READING: "Using the Crowd as an Innovation Partner"

    • READING: "Strategy as Simple Rules"

    • READING: "The 12 Different Ways for Companies to Innovate"
  • 4

    Phase 2

    • Phase 2 Syllabus

    • VIDEO: Set High Quality Targets

    • QUIZ: Set High Quality Targets

    • READING: "Blue Ocean Strategy"

    • READING: "Is It Real? Can We Win? Is It Worth Doing? Managing Risk and Reward in an Innovation Portfolio"

    • READING: "The 5 Myths of Innovation"

    • READING: "Reinventing Your Business Model"

    • READING: "Deep Smarts"

    • READING: "The Innovation Value Chain"
  • 5

    Phase 3

    • Phase 3 Syllabus

    • VIDEO: Sources of Innovation

    • QUIZ: Sources of Innovation

    • VIDEO: Enlist Deep and Diverse Domain Expertise

    • QUIZ: Enlist Deep and Diverse Domain Expertise

    • READING: "Using the Crowd as an Innovation Partner"

    • READING: "Mastering the Five Levels of Creativity"
  • 6

    Phase 4

    • Phase 4 Syllabus

    • VIDEO: Take Multiple Shots on Goal

    • QUIZ: Take Multiple Shots on Goal

    • VIDEO: Learning from Experience and Experiments

    • QUIZ: Learn from Experience and Experiments

    • READING: "Building Breakthrough Businesses Within Established Organizations"
  • 7

    Phase 5

    • Phase 5 Syllabus

    • VIDEO: Gaining Buy-In

    • QUIZ: How to Win a Bar Fight

    • VIDEO: Evaluating and Measuring Innovation

    • QUIZ: Evaluating and Measuring Innovation
  • 8

    Phase 6

    • Phase 6 Syllabus

    • VIDEO: Connecting the Dots

    • Quiz: Connect the Dots

    • READING: "Why Every Project Needs a Brand"
  • 9

    Phase 7

    • Phase 7 Syllabus

    • Video: Teaching Your Leaders How to Learn

    • READING: "Manage Your Emotional Culture"

    • READING: "Leading Change: Why Transformation Efforts Fail"

    • READING: "How to Build a Culture of Originality"

    • READING: "What Leaders Really Do"

    • READING: "The Innovation Catalysts"

    • READING: "Creating a Purpose-Driven Organization"

    • READING: "Radical Change, the Quiet Way"

    • READING: "Why Change Programs Don’t Produce Change"