Course Code
Course Title
Innovation Management and Organizational Change
Description
This course addresses understanding how organizations can recognize, innovate and cope with change due to updates in current and new information technologies to address business opportunities. Areas to be covered include: monitoring the technology environment, managing innovation with emerging technologies, adoption and diffusion of innovation, applying innovative thinking to solve technology-related issues, understanding organizational development and change management methods, change management in project lifecycle.
Recommended Reading
- Tidd, J., and Bessant, J., 2013. Managing Innovation: Integrating Technological, Market and Organisational Change, Wiley, 5th edition. (e-book)
- Thomas JM. Diffusion of innovation in systematic review methodology: Why is study selection not yet assisted by automation? OA Evidence-Based Medicine 2013 Oct 21;1(2):12.
- Rogers, E. M. (2003). Diffusion of innovations. New York: Free Press.
- Ivancevich, J. M., Konopaske, R., & Matteson, M. T. (2011). Organizational behaviour and management. New York, NY: McGraw-Hill Irwin.
- Pollack, Julien & Algeo, Chivonne. (2015). The Contribution of Project Management and Change Management to Project Success.