Course Overview

There are many exciting tools you can use to implement innovation at your organization. These tools are the “hammer and nails” of innovation. In this course, you will learn about 14 innovation tools. You will also see how other organizations have used them to successfully increase cultural and financial ROI, please customers, and improve operational efficiencies. These tools range from simpler activities such as conducting employee training, hosting hackathons, and implementing design sprints to more complex methods such as establishing an external incubator, founding a center of excellence, and acquiring another company. You will then further iterate your innovation placemat.

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

Developing Innovation Strategy
Building Innovation Competencies

Key Course Takeaways

Choose tools for deploying an innovation strategy
Map internal and external tools tied to your innovation strategy
Assess the fit of various tools and apply it to your project

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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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