START
February 28th, 2022
END
April 26th, 2022
DURATION
8 weeks
HOURS OF EFFORT
8 to 10 hours a week
LANGUAGE
English
FORMAT
Online
PRICE
$2,900 USD*
MIT CEU's
6.4
We are currently offering a special early enrollment discount of 10% before January 25th, 2022
Upon hearing the word “innovating,” our minds are trained to hear or read that word and imagine end results awash with flash and grandeur: a revolutionary product launch; a cure for a centuries-old illness; pristine robots programmed to handle manufacturing operations. While these “end results” are undoubtedly impressive, they expose a flaw in our thinking about what “innovating” really means and how innovations are developed.
Innovations lack novelty as they emerge. They begin with resources that already exist. We only deem them innovations in hindsight, without regard for the active, nonlinear process—full of twists and turns, challenges and progress—that scales them up to real-world impact. The innovations we celebrate today are the end product of incredible effort, but also—or more importantly, as some may argue—of productive setbacks and persistence, all of which originate from a simple hunch.
The challenge is to scale it up.
With MIT Professional Education’s online program “ Systematic Innovation: Scaling Up from a Hunch,” you will discover how to do so.
+300%
Large innovators that outperform their big-company peers put more money behind their innovation programs—1.4 times more as a percentage of sales*—and they get far greater payoffs: four times as much as a percentage of sales (+300).
Source: BCG (Boston Consulting Group)
50%
Over the next 10 years, around 50% of the companies* currently on the Fortune 500 list will be replaced. The life expectancy of large companies is rapidly declining as startups enter the market at a rapid pace. Innovation helps these companies to remain relevant.
Source: Fortune
75%
The number of companies reporting that innovation is among their organizations’ top three priorities.
Source: BCG (Boston Consulting Group)
Beginning with your initial hunch and the resources you already have; you will explore the systematic process of innovating. In doing so you will examine the role of critical thinking in innovating, design your own toolkit to solve real-world problems, and learn more about the benefits this framework can offer you and your organization.
This program offers a fresh approach—a doer's approach—to innovating. Aspiring innovators will explore how to turn their “hunches” into tangible, real-world problems by learning to envision the organizations that can solve them. You will discover the advantages of converting challenges into opportunities and acquire the necessary tools and techniques to work with parts and people to move forward in your innovating. Throughout this program, you will:
1.
what they look like and their central role in solving real-world problems.
2.
of real-world problems in order to devise solutions for them.
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to prototype and scale up your problem.
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and tools needed to transform hunches into real-world impact.
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for scoping out a space of opportunity.
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by bringing them down to table scale.
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needed to scale up your work.
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and to your advantage to write a final technology-problem report that advances your innovating.
All participants that successfully complete the course will receive a Digital Certificate from MIT Professional Education (MIT Professional Education Certificate of Completion).
Students in the MIT Professional Education Digital Plus Systematic Innovation: Scaling Up from a Hunch program will also receive 6.4 Continuing Education Units (CEU*).
* A CEU is a unit of credit equivalent to 10 hours of participation in an accredited program for professionals.
Innovating is a cornerstone of business. In this cross-sectional program, professionals from any industry, business model, or position in an organization will benefit from the tools, skills, and knowledge on offer. This program is aimed at professionals with an enthusiasm for innovating, including:
MIT Faculty Director of Innovation Teams Enterprise (MIT Engineering and MIT Sloan) Innovator, Educator, Author, AI Problem Solver
“If you are hoping for a straight path to impact, innovating may appear daunting at first. You need a lot of information to trace changes at the outcome all the way back to the beginnings”