MG 5910 - Change, Innovation, and Systems Thinking

Entrepreneurial skills and thinking are actively sought by more competitive and profitable growing businesses. Employee engagement consistently affects key performance outcomes including profitability, regardless of industry. This course will examine change and systems thinking while exploring inter-relationships, perspectives, and boundaries when it comes to scope, scale and what might constitute an improvement. Students will explore both entrepreneurship and intrapreneurship in relation to creating and fostering new opportunities. Combining theory with practice, students will have the opportunity to test the theories, models, and strategies learned in the classroom and gain access and insight from leaders in the entrepreneurial community. Students will learn to navigate complex and changing environments on the fly, applying lessons learned to a variety of scenarios, including ambiguity and shifting circumstances along with facing the fear of failure. (Pre-requisites: MG 5140 ) Credits: 4