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Basics of Innovation
Basics of Innovation
Management
Every breakthrough product, service, and process started as an idea someone learned to develop on purpose. In about two hours, you'll see how innovation really works — from spotting opportunities to turning them into value your organization can use.How innovation really works — spotting ideas and turning them into value — in about two hours.
What you will learn
Innovation management comes down to a handful of learnable skills — and this course covers the ones that matter most, so whether you're generating your first ideas or trying to move them forward, you'll leave able to spot opportunities, shape them, and bring them to life with confidence.
Core skills
- Understand how innovation happens and why it matters
- Turn raw ideas into structured, workable opportunities
- Apply proven innovation frameworks (design thinking, the innovation funnel, business model canvas, etc.)
This isn't theory for its own sake. Across eight focused chapters you'll work through what managing innovation actually involves — generating ideas, evaluating them, and guiding the strongest ones toward real impact — with models and tools you can put to use the same day.
Why this matters
2nd
most important core skill for workers in 2025 is creative thinking — innovation has become a baseline business capability, not a nice-to-have.
Source: WEFInnovation is often treated as a spark of luck, but in practice it's a discipline — a repeatable way of finding opportunities and turning them into value. This course gives you the foundations to manage that process with intention.
Across eight short chapters, you'll build a clear picture of the innovation process from end to end — what innovation is, where ideas come from, how to evaluate them, and how organizations move promising concepts from thinking to reality.
Along the way you'll get hands-on with the frameworks practitioners actually rely on, from design thinking and the innovation funnel to the business model canvas, so you understand not just the ideas but how to apply them.
It's designed for a wide audience and open to everyone — no prior experience needed. It's especially valuable for people who want to grow professionally and advance their careers, whatever their field or role.
The whole course takes about two hours in text and audio, is fully self-paced, and comes with lifetime access and no prerequisites. Pass the short final exam and you'll earn a verifiable certificate that also counts toward IBMI's Innovation Management and Sustainable Management programs at no extra cost.
What we will cover
8 focused chapters that build from the fundamentals to the tools you’ll actually use — each grounded in practical, real-world examples.
- Introduction
- Innovator’s Dilemma
- Three Horizons of Growth
- Key Aspects of Innovation
- Types of Innovation (Innovation Matrix)
- Paths to Innovation
- Ideation
- Selection
- Development
- Commercialization
- Push vs. Pull
- Waterfall vs. Agile
- Open vs. Closed
- Example: Lean Startup
- Innovative Culture
- Example: Google
- Hidden Needs Analysis
- Empathy Mapping
- Technology Adoption Lifecycle
- Brainstorming
- Hackathons
- Innovation Audit
- Innovation Metrics
- Success Factors
- Conclusion
Course Quiz & Your CertificateMultiple choice · free retakes · no time limit · certificate issued instantly on passing
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Netherlands★★★★★"A solid, well-organized introduction. I'd have loved a bit more depth, but as an overview it does its job very well."
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It counts toward the Innovation Management and Sustainable Management program certificates — at no extra cost.
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Add the course to your cart and create your student account during checkout. You can start right after payment — and you keep lifetime access, so breaks and retakes are always possible.
It’s a focused short course — 8 chapters and 25 topics, about 2 hours in total, 100% online and self-paced. Read the content or listen to the audio on your computer, tablet, or phone, and pick up exactly where you left off. No additional reading material required.
None. This course is designed for students and non-students alike — no prior knowledge and no formal application. All you need is a web browser and some motivation.
With the current discount, this course costs US$12. That includes the full course content and your personal certificate — there are no additional costs.
Work through the 8 chapters and pass the course quiz — multiple choice, with free retakes and no time limit. Your certificate is issued instantly as a digital PDF that you can download, print, share on LinkedIn, and that employers can verify online via its unique ID.
IBMI holds its distance learning programs to the same high standards applied by traditional educational institutions, and our certificates are acknowledged by employers around the world as professional certificates. Please note we do not award academic titles or degrees.
The full course — audio and text — is in English. You can also read the course text in 100+ other languages via automatic (machine) translation, so you can follow along in whichever language you’re most comfortable with. See available languages →
Yes. Alongside your course certificate, this course counts toward the Innovation Management and Sustainable Management program certificates — at no extra cost. Finish the required courses in a program and you earn its certificate too.
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