Al/361 Course Syllabus

|[pic] |Course Syllabus |
| |School of Business |
| |OI/361 |
| |Innovation, Design, and Creativity for a |
| |Competitive Advantage
|02/27/13 |2 |
| |How would you define strategy, process, product, and services? | | |
| |How are strategy, process, product, and services related? | | |
| |What could be the impact of innovation, design, and creativity on strategy? | | |
|Learning Team |Select one of the Virtual Organizations that could benefit from a new focus on creativity and |02/27/13 |10 |
|Benefit and Drivers |innovation. You will use this Virtual Organization in your future Learning Team assignments. | | |
|Paper | | | |
| |Assume the role of a consultant team for the Virtual Organization you selected to help the | |
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|Reading |Read Ch. 1 & 2 of Creative Intelligence. | | |
|Reading |Read Preface, Introduction and Ch. 1 & 2 of The Power of Impossible Thinking. | | |
|Participation |Participate in class discussion. |03/06/13 |2 |
|Quiz |Part of the class Participation grade |03/06/13 |2 |
|Discussion Questions |Respond to weekly discussion questions. |03/06/13 |2 |
| |Consider the five forces described in the text that influence your mental model/mindsets. | | |
| |Describe a mental model/mindset you have. How have each of the five forces impacted your | |