Advanced Topics in Strategy and Innovation
The purpose of this course is to make students understand selected issues related to strategy and innovation. Specifically to promote understanding of critical issues in the areas of strategy implementation and strategic change, governance and corporate responsibility, as well as with the management of innovation. It aims at providing knowledge, and also at developing students’ skills in the application of strategy concepts, methods and tools in dealing with the specific issues addressed as well as by focusing on practical examples and cases, and application projects.
Course contents
The course examines issues of strategy implementation, strategic change, and the management of innovation. More specifically:
Unit 1: Basic concepts in strategic change and innovation
Unit 2: Strategy implementation: from planning to implementing
Unit 3: Management of strategic change
Unit 4: Structural mechanisms for strategy implementation
Unit 5: Strategic planning system
Unit 6: Corporate Governance: purposes and goals, role of BoD
Unit 7: Corporate Governance: critical issues, trends
Unit 8: Sustainability and Social Responsibility
Unit 9: Strategic management of non-profit organizations
Unit 10: Innovation and competitiveness
Unit 11: New product development processes
Unit 12: Knowledge and Learning
Unit 13: National Systems of Innovation