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Build a Leading Innovation Strategy

EFQM and Centre for Competitiveness via FutureLearn

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Overview

Build a self-sustaining innovation strategy to drive competitive advantage

Innovation management can play a key role in driving business improvement.

Process innovation, business model innovation, and product innovation could help your organisation to build and sustain competitive advantage.

On this course, you’ll learn how to ensure your organisation can enjoy these benefits by implementing coherent and self-sustaining innovation processes.

Leverage the EFQM Model innovation framework

The EFQM Model is a quality management model, designed to support sustainable business excellence. It is the most popular quality management tool in Europe, used by over 30,000 organisations.

This business management course will help you build a winning innovation strategy, drawing upon the innovation framework set out in the EFQM Model.

Become an innovation leader at your organisation

Exploring the latest innovation trends among leading business organisations, you’ll develop a deeper understanding of what innovation actually means.

You’ll learn how to implement it using structured innovation management and how to lead innovation projects that drive meaningful change.

Boost your career and your organisation’s bottom line

By implementing what you learn on this course, you will be able to move your organisation closer to becoming an innovation leader.

Whether its business model innovation, process innovation, or product innovation, this could be instrumental in underpinning business improvement and competitive advantage. From business students to project managers and executives to entrepreneurs, this course offers professional benefits to a wide range of ambitious professionals.

This course is aimed at anyone who would like to know more about how to drive competitive advantage through innovation processes.

The course would also suit learners with some awareness of the EFQM model, who would like to know more.

Syllabus

  • Perspectives on innovation
    • Welcome to the course
    • Your perspective on innovation
  • The EFQM Innovation Framework
    • What is the EFQM Innovation Framework?
  • Assessing innovation maturity
    • Using the EFQM Innovation Framework
  • Developing an innovation strategy and action plan
    • The EFQM Innovation Framework as a planning tool
    • End of course reflections

Taught by

Gail Tutcher

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