Course Overview

In this course, you will devise a strategy to manage a portfolio of innovation projects at your organization. You will examine best practices for portfolio management and establish a plan to spread your innovation and innovation culture. Then you will examine typical risks to your scaling strategy and establish a sustainment plan. Finally, you will revise your innovation placemat and present a practice pitch. This activity will prepare you to pitch your innovation placemat at your organization.

The following courses are required to be completed before taking this course:

Developing Innovation Strategy
Building Innovation Competencies
Innovation Tools
Implementing Innovation

Key Course Takeaways

Design a portfolio management plan for your innovation initiative
Employ strategies and activities to diffuse and scale innovations
Develop a sustainment plan for your innovation strategy

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Course Length

2 weeks

Effort

5-7 hours per week

Format

100% online, instructor-led

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Andrea Ippolito

Lecturer

Cornell University College of Engineering

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Lecturer and Director of Women Entrepreneurs Cornell

Andrea Ippolito is a lecturer in the Engineering Management Program at Cornell University as well as the founder and Director of Women Entrepreneurs Cornell (W.E. Cornell). Additionally, she is currently the founder and CEO of SimpliFed, a company supporting every family on the baby-feeding journey.

Prior to joining Cornell, Ms. Ippolito served as the Director of the Department of Veterans Affairs Innovators Network within the VA Center for Innovation. She completed her M.S. in Engineering and Management at MIT. Prior to MIT, Ms. Ippolito worked as a research scientist within the Corporate Technology Development group at Boston Scientific. She obtained both her B.S. in Biological Engineering in 2006 and Master’s of Engineering in Biomedical Engineering in 2007 from Cornell University.

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Entry-level to executive leaders
Product managers
MBA students
Data scientists and analysts
Entrepreneurs and aspiring entrepreneurs
Engineers

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