Leading Creative Change

Aim

Upon completed course, the student shall be able to:

• Discuss different perspectives on change
• Address how innovation is related to change
• Address how entrepreneurship is related to change
• Address how project management is related to change
• Discuss scientific papers within the fields of innovation, entrepreneurship, project management and change
• Analyze different approaches within the field of managing change
• Analyze different complex change problems and suggest solutions
• Present and analyze recommendation within the area of managing change
• Write and analyze academic texts withing the area of managing change

Content

The course addresses different perspective on creative change, both classic and more contemporary concepts and approaches will be used to understand and analyze what change is and how change evolves. The course is organized around three main perspectives: the entrepreneurial perspective, the innovation perspectives, and the project perspective. These projects offer a foundation for different mindsets on how change is implemented in practice and in different contexts. Each perspective will be used to address different aspects of creative change, through different cases and examples.

The course will rely on the following central parts:

• Different perspectives on change
• Classic models on how to lead and implement change
• Recent research and models on how to lead and implement change
• Entpreneurship and change
• Projects and change
• Innovation and change
• Future challenges to succeed with creative change