Oxford Strategic Innovation Programme

Challenge your assumptions and develop a mindset for innovation.

The Oxford Strategic Innovation Programme approaches innovation as a tool for handling challenges that cannot yet be predicted. Youll deconstruct and redefine what innovation means, why its essential in business, and how it can be mobilised within organisations for competitive advantage.

With a critical thinking and analytical approach, youll explore ways to navigate the innovation process, and learn how to incorporate it within your organisational design, structure, and culture.

Over six weeks, you will be empowered to:

Enhance your organisational value by incorporating innovation into the way you work and respond to challenges

Analyse various innovation systems, strategies, and processes, and apply them within your own context

Understand the ethics and governance considerations for business innovation

This programme is delivered in partnership with

GetSmarter

, a 2U brand. When you enrol, youll be directed to their platform, which manages registration and course delivery on our behalf, as an official and trusted

Oxford Saïd partner.

Programme curriculum

Orientation module

The orientation module will prepare you for the rest of the programme and will:

familiarise you with the online campus

provide you with an overview of the programme handbook

introduce you to the programme team

cover some introductory course material including pre-reading materials, basic definitions and a glossary

This will stand you in good stead as you embark on the rest of your programme.

Module 1

A primer on innovation

Challenge popular cultural notions of innovation to understand the language and types of innovation, and the principles of building innovation systems.

Module 2

Organising for innovation

Explore organisational design and the structural and cultural elements of a business that allow it to innovate.

Module 3

Drivers of innovation: Technology and beyond

Explore models of innovation beyond popular notions of technological change and disruption.

Module 4

4IR technology: Ethics and governance

Reflect on the ethics and governance considerations prompted by emerging technology.

Module 5

Corporate innovation strategies and platforms

Consider the corporate landscape of innovation, how platforms organise market competition and, in turn, shape the nature of innovation.

Module 6

Innovation in practice

Consider your context and the future of innovation in light of what you have learnt in this programme.