Leading Innovation and Creativity in a Competitive Marketplace | Spalding University Catalog

EDD-906: Leading Innovation and Creativity in a Competitive Marketplace

6 credit hours

This course focuses on how a leader, by employing interdisciplinary approaches, can drive and shape an organization to embrace, foster, and promote collective creativity and innovation. Further, the student explores skills and strategies to systematize operations and confirm digital access and appropriate infrastructure for an organization to thrive in a global marketplace. Through written and other forms of assessment, the student also demonstrates accountability in the mindful use and application of innovations.

Upon Completion of This Course, Students Will Be Able to:
• Create an interdisciplinary blueprint of principles, a professional development library, strategies, approaches, and resources to increase innovation and creativity within an organization.
• Incorporate innovation and creativity into existing or proposed initiatives.
• Demonstrate delegation and accountability skills when requiring innovation and creativity.
• Identify appropriate levels of risk when establishing innovative and creative initiatives.
• Establish standards for evaluating innovation and creativity.