Oxford Strategic Innovation Programme

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

With a critical thinking and analytical approach, you’ll 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:

This programme is delivered in partnership with GetSmarter , a 2U brand. When you enrol, you’ll be directed to their platform, which manages registration and course delivery on our behalf, as an official and trusted Oxford Saïd partner.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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