Innovation Management

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2.00Credits

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OE Hiroko

English

Kioicho Campus

The business world is constantly changing, offering new opportunities as well as increased risks. Business managers need to respond proactively and effectively to these innovative, strategic, and dynamic changes.
This unit explores and evaluates the theoretical and practical perspectives and assessments of innovation management and the managerial issues facing organizations in a global environment. Encompassing research by academic staff from within and outside the business school, this unit will provide students with the opportunity to critically understand, evaluate, analyze, and make recommendations on the themes and issues that underlie innovation management, including opportunities, barriers, controversies, and dilemmas.

Upon completion of this unit, participants are expected to be able to

1. develop a critical understanding and evaluation of innovation management processes in a global context
2. analyze relevant innovation management data and information
3. understand the communication essential to global management and the meaning of information, and be able to propose mechanisms to promote behavioral change through information dissemination and sharing
4. be able to apply concepts, models, and frameworks related to innovation management to global strategic decision making

As we enter an era of symbiosis with the Covid-19, we will discuss new organizational behavior, tips for building resilient organizations and human resources that can survive in the global era, based on communication theories surrounding information dissemination and sharing and decision making among stakeholders, and pathways to contribute to the SDGs, which are common challenges for global citizens.
　　　　Through the implementation of this unit, discussion and critical evaluation of these elements will be encouraged. In addition, as a major sub-theme for the 2023 academic year, the study will focus on communication between companies and consumers, focusing on aspects of information dissemination and behavior change, as well as on the penetration of corporate philosophy and co-creation of value.
Starting with basic theory review for Joseph Alois Schumpeter,as a metabolism of economy that is a key driver for economic growth from creative destruction perspective.

1. Introduction What is Innovation? overview of the theories and practices in Innovation

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2. Innovation in the global market and sustainability

-Communication and mutual understanding
-Stakeholders and collaboration

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3. Digital transformation, communications, and clusters of Innovation

-Digital transformation
-Information diffusion model
-Media mix and integrated communication

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4. Design thinking

-Skills to identify, evaluate, and resolve a variety of issues relating to social environment
-Learning organisations

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5. Entrepreneurial Orientations and innovative atittudes  

- An understanding of the strategies most effective for exploiting innovations and the ability to apply these concepts directly to real world situations
- Case studies

Prepare for the team discussions: What do you think the most effective for exploiting innovations  in the real world situations?
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6. Management Innovation

-Critical Evaluation of Management Models
-Learning from the Japanese Management Quality Model
-Information and Implementation

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7. Executing innovations

- the structures and incentives organizations for innovations
- decision making process
- evaluation of innovative outcomes

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8. Communication for exploiting innovations (experiments with a guest lecturer)

- the strategies that a firm must consider to most effectively exploit the value of their innovation
- including innovation platforms that incorporate multiple product options, portfolios and standards
- how to cope with obstacles for innovations
- experiment (Game)

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9. Green Innovation

-UN SDGs and innovative approach
-transformation of lifestyles and business styles through the use of new ideas

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10. Real and virtual-innovation for well-being

- a society that coexists in harmony with nature
- concept of social prescriptions
- a concept of technobiophilia

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11.  Strategic Innovation

-Economic revitalisation and sustainable economic growth
-Public interventions and partnerships

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12. Case Study for  Innovation in Japanese

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13. Wrap up and summarizing

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（１） Contribution to course operation 50%
（２） Course work assignment (A4 2 pages) 50%

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Reference materials will be provided as appropriate.