Course and Faculty Introduction
The purpose of this course is to enable leaders to be effective in a fast-paced business environment. This course focuses on building skills in two key areas: team leadership and adaptive organization design. It takes a unique approach in that it first covers fundamentals in each area, so it is useful in everyday leadership. The course also pushes further by exploring innovation situations that especially require teams and organizations to be adaptable and flexible.
Learning Outcomes
Upon successful completion of this course, you will:
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Learn key team leadership skills regarding information management, motivation, and inclusion, so as to enhance organizational flexibility and responsiveness
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Recognize how teams are particularly useful in innovation contexts and learn team design and leadership skills that enable effective innovation management
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Learn the critical dimensions of organization design and how to apply them effectively
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Recognize how innovation initiatives require different organizational designs than established businesses and learn to design organizations that can do both effectively
Course Overview
Team
Leadership
We begin with models of effective decision‐making and implementation through management of information and motivation. We push on into innovation by covering core team‐based approaches in new product development, and particularly emphasize the promise of "heavyweight" cross‐functional development teams.
Organization
Design
We focus on the understanding sources of organizational effectiveness and how they can be achieved through different organizational designs. We push into innovation by exploring the challenges of simultaneously managing both established businesses and new businesses in nascent markets with new technologies. We examine the idea of organizational ambidexterity as a solution to these challenges and cover how managers can develop and lead an ambidextrous organization.