Course Curriculum

  • 1

    Week 1: Pre-Work & Jumpstart

    • Week 1 Overview

    • The Innovation Code by Jeff DeGraff and Staney DeGraff

    • Innovation Code Module 1 Creative Conflicts

    • Innovation Code Module 2 The Conflict of Magnitude

    • Innovation Code Module 3 The Conflict of Momentum

    • Innovation Code Module 4 Strengths and Weaknesses

    • Innovation Code Module 5 Structure and Dynamics

    • Innovation Code Module 6 Assemble a Diversity of Perspectives

    • Innovation Code Module 7 Engage in the Conflict

    • Innovation Code Module 8 Establish a Shared Vision

    • Innovation Code Module 9 Construct Hybrid Solutions

    • Why Facts Don’t Change Our Minds by Elizabeth Kolbert

    • Transformational Leadership and Team Innovation: Integrating Team Climate Principles by Silke A. Eisenbeiss, Daan van Knippenberg and Sabine Boerner

    • For leaders: balancing care with candor by John Maxwell
  • 2

    Week 2: Problem Definition & Scoping: Sensemaking

    • Week 2 Overview

    • The Creative Mindset - Preface, Introduction, Chapter 1, and Chapter 2

    • The Creative Mindset - Introduction

    • The Creative Mindset - Clarify

    • Organizing and the Process of Sensemaking by Karl E. Weick, Kathleen M. Sutcliffe

    • In Praise of the Incomplete Leader by Deborah Ancona, Thomas W Malone, Wanda Orlikowski, and Peter Senge

    • Managing Yourself Where to Look for Insight by Mohanbir and Sanjay Khosla

    • Make Better Decisions by Challenging Your Expectations by Cheryl Strauss Einhorn
  • 3

    Week 3: Problem Definition & Scoping: Field Work; Getting People to Talk; Deep Dive

    • Week 3 Overview

    • The Creative Mindset: Chapter 3

    • The Creative Mindset: Replicate - Field Trip

    • The Right Way to Lead Design Thinking by Christian Bason and Robert D. Austin

    • The Creative Mindset: Replicate - Make New Friends

    • Designing Breakthrough Products by Roberto Verganti

    • The Creative Mindset: Replicate - Copy Nature

    • From touchpoints to journey: Seeing the world as customers do by Nicolas Maechler, Kevin Neher, and Robert Park

    • The Power of Defining the Problem by Dwayne Spradlin

    • Certified Professional Innovator: Enlist Deep & Diverse Domain Expertise

    • Are You Solving the Right Problems? By Thomas Wedell-Wedellsborg
  • 4

    Week 4: Problem Definition & Scoping: Core Competencies

    • Week 4 Overview

    • The Creative Mindset: Chapter 4

    • The Creative Mindset - Elaborate – Random Words

    • The Core Competence of the Corporation by C.K. Prahalad and Gary Hamel

    • The Creative Mindset - Elaborate – SCAMPER

    • What Is Disruptive Innovation? by Clayton M. Christensen, Michael E. Raynor, and Rory McDonald

    • The Creative Mindset - Elaborate – Thinking Hats

    • The Discipline of Teams by Jon R. Katzenbach and Douglas K. Smith
  • 5

    Week 5: Develop Options & Experiments: Experiments

    • Week 5 Overview

    • The Creative Mindset: Chapter 5

    • The Creative Mindset : Associate - Adaptive Reasoning

    • The Discipline of Business Experimentation by Stefan Thomke and Jim Manzi

    • The Creative Mindset : Associate - Imaginary Friends

    • Enlightened Experimentation: The New Imperative for Innovation by Stefan Thomke

    • The Creative Mindset : Associate - Synetics

    • Building a Culture of Experimentation by Stefan Thomke
  • 6

    Week 6: Develop Options & Experiments: Decision Making

    • Week 6 Overview

    • The Creative Mindset: Chapter 6

    • The Creative Mindset: Translate - Storyboarding

    • Drive Innovation with Better Decision-Making by Linda A. Hill, Emily Tedards, and Taran Swan

    • The Creative Mindset: Translate - Morphologies

    • Accelerating product development: The tools you need now by Mickael Brossard, Hannes Erntell, and Dominik Hepp

    • The Creative Mindset: Translate - Scenario Making

    • How to Kill Creativity by Teresa M. Amabile

    • How to Design Smart Business Experiments by Thomas H. Davenport

    • Competing Values Leadership: Creating Value in Organizations: Chapter 1 by Kim S. Cameron, Robert E. Quinn, Jeff DeGraff and Anjan V. Thakor
  • 7

    Week 7: Develop Options & Experiments: Learning From Failure

    • Week 7 Overview

    • The Creative Mindset: Chapter 7

    • The Creative Mindset: Evaluate

    • The Failure Tolerant Leader by Richard Farson and Ralph Keyes

    • Is Yours a Learning Organization by David A. Garvin, Amy C. Edmondson & Francesca Gino

    • Jeff-ism: Embracing Failure

    • The Future of Prototyping Is Now Live by David Aycan and Paolo Lorenzoni

    • Moonshots for Management by Gary Hamel

    • Speeding Up Team Learning by Amy Edmonson, Richard Bohmer, and Gary Pisano

    • How to Learn From Failure. Organizational Creativity, Learning, Innovation and the Benefit of Failure by Richard Leoncini

    • Competing Values Leadership: Creating Value in Organizations: Chapter 5 by Kim S. Cameron, Robert E. Quinn, Jeff DeGraff and Anjan V. Thakor

    • The Surprising Power of Questions by Alison Wood Brooks and Leslie K. John

    • Sensemaking - Framing and Acting in the Unknown by Deborah Ancona
  • 8

    Week 8: Develop Options & Experiments: Team Capability

    • Week 8 Overview

    • The Creative Mindset: Chapter 8

    • When Internal Collaboration Is Bad for Your Company by Morten T. Hansen

    • Cultural Innovation by Douglas Holt

    • Thinking, Fast and Slow, Daniel Kahneman

    • How to Integrate Work and Deepen Expertise by Dorothy Leonard-Barton, H. Kent Bowen, Kim B. Clark, Charles A. Holloway, and Steven C. Wheelwright

    • Building the Emotional Intelligence of Groups by Vanessa Urch Druskat and Steven B. Wolff

    • Deep Smarts by Dorothy Leonard and Walter Swap

    • Designing Organizations for Dynamic Capabilities by Teppo Felin and Thomas C. Powell

    • Competing Values Leadership: Creating Value in Organizations: Chapter 8 by Kim S. Cameron, Robert E. Quinn, Jeff DeGraff and Anjan V. Thakor
  • 9

    Week 9: Draft & Test Solution: Pivoting

    • Week 9 Overview

    • Stop Doubling Down on Your Failing Strategy by Freek Vermeulen and Niro Sivanathan

    • Evaluating Ideas

    • Strategy as Simple Rules by Kathleen M. Eisenhardt and Donald N. Sull

    • Lift: The Fundamental State of Leadership by Ryan W. Quinn and Robert E. Quinn

    • Bob Quinn: Moments of greatness: Getting a standing ovation from the people you just fired

    • Organizing for Resilience, Positive Organizational Scholarship: Foundations of a New Discipline. K.S. Cameron, J.E. Dutton & R.E. Quinn

    • The Wisdom of Deliberate Mistakes by Paul J.H. Schoemaker and Robert E. Gunther
  • 10

    Week 10: Draft & Test Solution: Sustaining & Perpetuating Innovation

    • Week 10 Overview

    • You Need an Innovation Strategy by Gary Pisano

    • Certified Professional Innovator: Innovation Processes

    • How to Build a Culture of Originality by Adam Grant

    • Creating an Innovation Community

    • Institutionalizing Innovation by Scott D. Anthony, Mark W. Johnson & Joseph V. Sinfield

    • Resilience and Organizational Culture: a competing values perspective (Chapter 18) by Edward H. Powley & Kim S. Cameron

    • Creating New Markets Through Service Innovation by Leonard L. Berry, Venkatesh Shanker, Janet Turner Parish, Susan Cadwallader & Thomas Dotzel

    • Identifying the Biases Behind Your Bad Decisions by John Beshears and Francesca Gino
  • 11

    Week 11: Draft & Test Solution: GE Workout

    • Week 11 Overview

    • Tipping Point Leadership by W. Chan Kim and Renée Mauborgne

    • Certified Professional Innovator: Evaluating and Measuring Innovation

    • How Will You Measure Your Life? By Clayton M. Christensen

    • How Management Teams Can Have a Good Fight by Janet M. Eisenhardt, Jean L. Kahwajy, and L.J. Bourgeois III

    • A Survival Guide for Leaders

    • Portfolio Management for New Product Development by R.G. Cooper, S.J. Edgett, and E.J. Kleinschmidt

    • Managing Your Team’s Emotional Dynamic by Amit Goldenberg

    • GE Workout
  • 12

    Week 12: Select Solution: Business Model

    • Week 12 Overview

    • The Case for Stealth Innovation by Paddy Miller and Thomas Wedell-Wedellsborg

    • Having Trouble with Your Strategy? Then Map It by Robert S. Kaplan and David P. Norton

    • Innovation Business Models

    • Your Company's Secret Change Agents by Richard Tanner Pascale and Jerry Sternin

    • The Truth About Behavioral Change by Damon Centola
  • 13

    Week 13: Design & Practice Final Pitch: Creating Pitches

    • Week 13 Overview

    • The Four Truths of the Storyteller by Peter Guber

    • Change the Way You Persuade by Gary A. Williams and Robert B. Miller

    • Persuading the Unpersuadable by Adam Grant

    • The Clues to a Great Story, Andrew Stanton

    • The Five Messages Leaders Must Manage by John Hamm

    • How to Give a Killer Presentation by Chris Anderson
  • 14

    Week 14: Design & Practice Final Pitch: Change Management

    • Week 14 Overview

    • Why Change Programs Don't Produce Change by Michael Beer, Russell A. Eisenstat, and Bert Spector

    • Cultural Change That Sticks by Jon R. Katzenbach, Ilona Steffen, and Caroline Kronely

    • The Rhythm of Change by Quy Nguyen Huy and Henry Mintzberg

    • Creating a Purpose-Driven Organization by Robert E. Quinn and Anjan V. Thakor

    • Fostering High-Quality Connections How to Deal with Corrosive Relationships at Work by Jane Dutton

    • Can You Build High-Quality Connections? with Jane Dutton