Overview

Included in degrees & certificates

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Learning Outcomes

By the end of the course students will be able to do the following.

• Articulate an understanding of how computing and information technology is shaping the combat operational environment and how innovation leaders can accelerate technology transfer into that environment.
• Interpret innovation as emergence or adoption of new practices in a community and apply this interpretation to innovation opportunities.
• Articulate commonly held theories of computing technology adoption and transfer and their susceptibility to failures.
• Learn the eight practices for sustained adoption of technology innovation: sensing, envisioning, offering, adopting, sustaining, executing, leading, and embodying; demonstrate basic competence through exercises and innovation project.
• Learn the foundational action-generating practices of communication: request, promise, offer, declaration, assessment, assertion, and conversation for action.
• Learn supporting distinctions in social power, resistance to innovation, moods that affect productivity, and listening for concerns in the community.
• Acquire basic skills to navigate in a world full of uncertainties, surprises, contingencies, and unexpected events.
• Acquire basic skills to mobilize followers to adopt and sustain the new practice.
• Demonstrate an integration of the above innovation skills through an innovation project that achieves early adoption of new practice in their communities.