Management of innovation

General data
Course Title Management of innovation
ECTS credits 4
Course Code  
Type of Course  Compulsory
Year and Semester of Study  First year / Winter semester
Course Website  -
Department  Department of Informatics
Course Coordinator Professor Velimir Srića, PhD
Instructors Professor Velimir Srića, PhD
Assistants  -
Type of Degree Program  Graduate Study Programme
Major  -
Hours per Semester 20
Language of Instruction  English
Class Schedule                                                Schedule 


 
Course Contents:
1. Introduction to innovation and creativity
2. Convergent, divergent, lateral and vertical thinking
3. Barriers to creativity and innovation and how to remove them
4. Individual creativity supporting techniques
5. Team creativity supporting techniques
6. Building innovative organisational environment
7. Innovative project management
Description of general and specific competences (knowledge and skills) to be developed by this course:
The students will develop understanding of innovation and creativity as an phenomenon in general, and specifically within an organisational environment. They will develop individual and team skills in preparing and presenting innovative projects, speciffically those based on IT and creating added value.
Teaching methods:
Lectures, seminars, research papers and practical proglem solving tasks, individual and team techniques of creativity and innovation development.
Additional requirements for students:
 Active in-class participation. Keepint up-to-date with the recent literature, especially the web sources on the topic. Writing up and presenting (as well as evaluating) innovative projects individually and in teams.
Assessment/examination method:

 The final grade will be based on the students' active participation, written exam and the students’ results in individual and team projects assessed by other teams.

Required reading:
 "Kako postati pun ideja – menadžer i kreativnost, MEP Consult, Zagreb, 2003.; “Innovative Manager in 100 lessons”, Budapest, MBA Press, 2006
Recommended reading:
"Upravljanje odnosom s klijentima – primjenom CRM poslovne strategije do povećanja konkurentnosti", Delfin, Zagreb, 2005.; "Social Intelligence and Project Leadership", Journal of American Academy of Business, no. 2. 2008.
Course and teaching quality assurance method (method of monitoring the quality of the course and its teaching):
 Course evaluation will be conducted by anonymous student survey at the end of the teaching cycle.
Course Prerequisites
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Additional Information
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