Course curriculum

  • 1

    Reference Materials

    • Creative Mindset Worksheets (Optional Reference)

    • Project Mercury Innovation Playbook
  • 2

    Prework

    • Prework Syllabus

    • VIDEO: Intro to Innovation Code

    • VIDEO: Creative Power of Constructive Conflict

    • CPI VIDEO - Case Study

    • ARTICLE: Embedding Creativity in Professional Military Education: Understanding Creativity and Its Implementation by Adam Lowther, Brooke Mitchell, Gerard Puccio, and Nathan Schwagler

    • ARTICLE: On Military Creativity by MIlan Vego
  • 3

    Week 1 (JUMPSTART Resources)

    • WEEK 1 Syllabus - Jumpstart Week

    • The Innovation Code (supplemental resource)

    • The Creative Mindset (supplemental resource)

    • DUE: Team Charter
  • 4

    Week 2

    • Acceleration Phase - Expectations

    • WEEK 2 Overview

    • Podcast: Big Vape the Incendiary Rise of Juul E-Cigarettes - Required pre-ethics lesson

    • ARTICLE: The Ethics of Autonomous Cars - required reading pre-ethics lesson

    • Ethics Reading: "Ethical Reasoning and Military Leadership" required reading pre-ethics lesson

    • CPI VIDEO: Practice Prismatic Thinking

    • QUIZ: Prismatic Thinking

    • CPI VIDEO: How to Think About Growth

    • QUIZ: How to Think About Growth

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

    • ARTICLE: "You Need an Innovation Strategy"
  • 5

    Week 3

    • WEEK 3 Thinkific Overview

    • CPI VIDEO: Assess to Progress

    • QUIZ: Assess to Progress

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

    • READING: "Design Thinking"
  • 6

    Week 4

    • WEEK 4 Thinkific Overview

    • CPI VIDEO: Creative Thinking

    • QUIZ: Creative Thinking

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

    • READING: "Mastering the Five Levels of Creativity"
  • 7

    Week 5

    • WEEK 5 Thinkific Overview

    • CPI VIDEO: Sources of Innovation

    • QUIZ: Sources of Innovation

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

    • READING: "Using the Crowd as an Innovation Partner"
  • 8

    Week 6

    • WEEK 6 Thinkific Overview

    • CPI VIDEO: Set High Quality Targets

    • QUIZ: Set High Quality Targets

    • READING: "Reinventing Your Business Model"

    • READING: "Moon Shots for Management"
  • 9

    Week 7

    • WEEK 7 Thinkific Overview

    • CPI VIDEO: Enlist Deep and Diverse Domain Expertise

    • QUIZ: Enlist Deep and Diverse Domain Expertise

    • READING: "Deep Smarts"

    • READING: "Managing Yourself: Collaborating with Creative Peers"
  • 10

    Week 8

    • WEEK 8 Thinkific Overview

    • CPI VIDEO: Take Multiple Shots on Goal

    • QUIZ: Take Multiple Shots on Goal

    • READING: "Blue Ocean Strategy"

    • READING: "Building Breakthrough Businesses Within Established Organizations"
  • 11

    Week 9

    • WEEK 9 Thinkific Overview

    • CPI VIDEO: Learning from Experience and Experiments

    • QUIZ: Learn from Experience and Experiments

    • READING: "Strategy as Simple Rules"

    • READING: "The Innovation Value Chain"
  • 12

    Week 10

    • WEEK 10 Thinkific Overview

    • CPI VIDEO: Gaining Buy-In

    • QUIZ: Gaining Buy-In (How to Win a bar fight)

    • READING: "The 5 Myths of Innovation"

    • READING: "The Seven Deadly Sins of Innovation Leader"
  • 13

    Week 11

    • WEEK 11 Thinkific Overview

    • CPI VIDEO: Innovation Processes

    • QUIZ: Innovation Processes

    • READING: "Is It Real? Can We Win? Is It Worth Doing? Managing Risk and Reward in an Innovation Portfolio"
  • 14

    Week 12

    • WEEK 12 Thinkific Overview

    • CPI VIDEO: Evaluating and Measuring Innovation

    • QUIZ: Evaluating and Measuring Innovation

    • CPI VIDEO: Connecting the Dots

    • QUIZ: Connect the Dots

    • READING: "Why Every Project Needs a Brand"

    • Pitch Refinement & Final Requirements