Organization Leadership and Innovation
Learn how established companies can compete like startups
What you'll learn
Analyzing business opportunities
Conducting business experiments
Pitching and selling your ideas
Hiring and leading the right team
Negotiating with key stakeholders
3-week options available
About Organization Leadership and Innovation
In a rapidly changing world, large organizations must adapt to thrive. Business as usual just won’t do. But how can established organizations adapt? By acting like startups.
In the Organization Leadership and Innovation Course, you and your team have unexpectedly been invited to join the WISE Accelerator where you'll take the reins of a potentially high-growth venture.
To make this venture a success you’ll need to understand your customer needs, conduct business experiments, manage finances, build out the team you need to launch a product in a competitive market, negotiate, pitch and land key customers and convince internal stakeholders to back your product.
You’ll be supported on your journey by world-class instruction from Wharton professors and successful CEOs while getting continuous feedback on your performance to help you improve.
Learn how an established company can compete like a startup so that you can take the lead in real life and help your organization adapt, innovate, and thrive.
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What you'll learn
Learning objectives
- Leading a successful team: techniques for leading teams to success
- Financing an internal venture: cash flow, sources of capital
- Business experiments: data gathering, hypothesis testing, pivoting
- Building teams and organizations: organizing and setting up a hiring process to build successful teams
- Sales and marketing: analyzing markets and selecting customers to target for new products and services
- Negotiations: establishing positions, analyzing bargaining power, conducting high-stakes negotiations
- Pitching and persuasion: pitching new ideas and persuading stakeholders of the value of your business concept
- Personal leadership ability: inspiring a team, avoiding team pitfalls, and achieving consensus
Practice objectives
- Experiencing the types of data that are generated by business experiments: surveys, market tests, and interviews
- Leading during a time of uncertainty and change
- Engaging with critical stakeholders in high-stakes settings: managers, customers, and employees
- Navigating through common points of failure for internal ventures: team conflict, scaling, and process loss
Thinking objectives
- Perspective-taking and the ability to analyze multiple viewpoints
- Improvisation and bricolage, making do with what you have to solve novel problems
- Self-monitoring and metacognition
- Self-efficacy and the confidence to accomplish entrepreneurial challenges
- Leading a successful team: techniques for leading teams to success
- Financing an internal venture: cash flow, sources of capital
- Business experiments: data gathering, hypothesis testing, pivoting
- Building teams and organizations: organizing and setting up a hiring process to build successful teams
- Sales and marketing: analyzing markets and selecting customers to target for new products and services
- Negotiations: establishing positions, analyzing bargaining power, conducting high-stakes negotiations
- Pitching and persuasion: pitching new ideas and persuading stakeholders of the value of your business concept
- Personal leadership ability: inspiring a team, avoiding team pitfalls, and achieving consensus
- Experiencing the types of data that are generated by business experiments: surveys, market tests, and interviews
- Leading during a time of uncertainty and change
- Engaging with critical stakeholders in high-stakes settings: managers, customers, and employees
- Navigating through common points of failure for internal ventures: team conflict, scaling, and process loss
- Perspective-taking and the ability to analyze multiple viewpoints
- Improvisation and bricolage, making do with what you have to solve novel problems
- Self-monitoring and metacognition
- Self-efficacy and the confidence to accomplish entrepreneurial challenges
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