Developing Innovative Ideas for Product Leaders (Coursera)

This course is primarily aimed at professionals who are inspired, or tasked, to develop and lead products. This include aspiring and active product managers, product designers, product developers, and others in the product arena. This course is also valuable to anyone interested in how to developing innovative ideas for new products.

We will focus on four important areas to develop and enhance your capabilities as a product leader:

• Introducing the skills for identifying and analyzing entrepreneurial ideas for new or improved products;

• Examining entrepreneurial thinking within yourself and your colleagues with an awareness of entrepreneurial mindset, entrepreneurial motivations, and entrepreneurial behaviors;

• Cultivating seeing entrepreneurially within yourself and your colleagues with attention to industry conditions, industry status, macroeconomic change, and competition; and

• Championing acting entrepreneurially within the corporate environment with an understanding of value innovation and opportunity identification.

Course 1 of 5 in the Product Ideation, Design, and Management Specialization

What You Will Learn

- Develop the skills for identifying and analyzing entrepreneurial ideas as a product leader

- Foster thinking entrepreneurially with an awareness of entrepreneurial mindset, entrepreneurial motivation, and entrepreneurial behavior

- Cultivate seeing entrepreneurially with attention to industry conditions, industry status, macroeconomic change, and competition

- Champion acting entrepreneurially with an understanding of value innovation and opportunity identification

Syllabus

WEEK 1

Introduction to Developing Innovative Ideas for Product Leaders

Get acquainted with the learning experience and course format, meet the faculty, and connect with classmates from across the globe.

WEEK 2

Thinking Entrepreneurially

Examine entrepreneurial thinking within yourself and your colleagues with an awareness of entrepreneurial mindset, entrepreneurial motivations, and entrepreneurial behaviors

WEEK 3

Seeing Entrepreneurially

Cultivate seeing entrepreneurially within yourself and your colleagues with attention to industry conditions, industry status, macroeconomic change, and competition

WEEK 4

Acting Entrepreneurially

Champion acting entrepreneurially within the corporate environment with an understanding of value innovation and opportunity identification