Leading change at the individual, group, and organizational levels is critical to the survival, growth, and success of various types of organizations. This course aims to prepare leaders for the challenges of guiding organizations through strategic change and innovation projects. Pressures in the dynamic external and internal environments of firms create opportunities for, or make necessary, innovation and transformation. Given the complex nature of change, the course offers a holistic and multi- disciplinary view of sustainable change and innovation by leadership, and organizational change. This course expands the standard innovation discourse by introducing technological design concepts and principles as tools for effectively envisioning future change states. Furthermore, the course explores the human, technological, network, environmental, industry, public sector, and societal variables that mediate creative and innovation outcomes for organizations. Specifically, students will learn about extant and emergent change approaches including organizational development, appreciative inquiry, sense-making, change management, processual, design thinking, and discursive. Participants are exposed to theoretical and empirical knowledge as well as analytical tools, with an underlying intention to answer the following questions: "What are creativity, innovation, and change?"; "Why do organizations change and innovate?"; and "How do organizations successfully design and implement change?" Prerequisite: TIM 500 or permission of instructor.
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