Developing the Opportunity for Corporate Entrepreneurs (Coursera)

Developing the Opportunity for Corporate Entrepreneurs (Coursera)

For an increasing number of established companies, creating new businesses and programs within the company is an imperative for success. Maturing technologies and aging product portfolios are requiring established companies to create, develop, and sustain innovative new initiatives.

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In this course, learners will develop knowledge on how to navigate the barriers to creating, developing, and sustain innovative new businesses and programs within established companies or organizations with an emphasis on:
• Introducing the skills for identifying and analyzing entrepreneurial ideas within a corporate environment;
• 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 Corporate Entrepreneurship Specialization.

Syllabus

Week 1
Introduction to Developing Opportunities for Corporate Entrepreneurs
Examine the fundamentals of corporate entrepreneurship with attention to key enablers and the value of a structure to support corporate entrepreneurship

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

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