MGMT 316 - Innovation and Managing Change

3 Credits
This course provides an environment that stimulates individual creativity and encourages risk taking to solve organizational and community problems. Students integrate design thinking and change management processes to develop an idea from inspiration through implementation.

Prerequisite(s): HLTH 211 or MGMT 211
Course Learning Outcomes:
1. Integrate design thinking and change management concepts to support innovation.
2. Evaluate the role of leadership and change agents in an organizational culture of innovation.
3. Evaluate risk taking, failure, and learning as integral to innovation.
4. Apply a variety of concepts and techniques to the development of individual and organizational creativity.
5. Identify the external and internal forces that can drive organizational change.