Innovation and Leading Change
Module name: Leading Innovation and Change
Assignment title: A mid-term draft of the final essay
Effective word count (words used): 4,000 word
Outline
1- About the assignment :
Leading Innovation and change being part of managing human and organization behaviors is kind of a complex processes that include several factors, stages, models, perceptions and definitely outcomes. In this paper I will get a deep dive and close up view stating the various definitions, different related models, how they work in practical life and what kind of failures such models face in real life implementation; along with a self reflection to the applied experiences of such study and what will be the development plan leading to more successful practices in future.
2- Introduction
3- Innovation
- What is innovation?
- Types of innovation
- Managing innovation
4- Change
- What is change?
- Kotter stages of change
- Lewins 3 stages model
- Types of chnage
5- Leadership
- Leading innovation & change
- Process of bringing out innovation and change
- Stakeholder issues
6- Successful experience
- Introducing Recognition program.
- Less successful experience (Values and cultural change program)
7- Reflections & Development plan :
8- Bibliography
About the assignment:
In this assignment, I will state several theories, definitions and models of innovation, change, and leadership of innovation and change. I will describe, analyze and criticize such theories and models. Moreover, I will apply such models on a successful project I launched in my company which is the “recognition program “and a less successful one which is “values cultural change program”. Finally will set the lessons learned from such study and future development plan concluding the research done on the “leading innovation & change “topic.
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Assignment title: A mid-term draft of the final essay
Effective word count (words used): 4,000 word
Outline
1- About the assignment :
Leading Innovation and change being part of managing human and organization behaviors is kind of a complex processes that include several factors, stages, models, perceptions and definitely outcomes. In this paper I will get a deep dive and close up view stating the various definitions, different related models, how they work in practical life and what kind of failures such models face in real life implementation; along with a self reflection to the applied experiences of such study and what will be the development plan leading to more successful practices in future.
2- Introduction
3- Innovation
- What is innovation?
- Types of innovation
- Managing innovation
4- Change
- What is change?
- Kotter stages of change
- Lewins 3 stages model
- Types of chnage
5- Leadership
- Leading innovation & change
- Process of bringing out innovation and change
- Stakeholder issues
6- Successful experience
- Introducing Recognition program.
- Less successful experience (Values and cultural change program)
7- Reflections & Development plan :
8- Bibliography
About the assignment:
In this assignment, I will state several theories, definitions and models of innovation, change, and leadership of innovation and change. I will describe, analyze and criticize such theories and models. Moreover, I will apply such models on a successful project I launched in my company which is the “recognition program “and a less successful one which is “values cultural change program”. Finally will set the lessons learned from such study and future development plan concluding the research done on the “leading innovation & change “topic.
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Bibliography: Baumol W (2002) The Free Market Innovation Machine: Analyzing the Growth Miracle of Capitalism. Princeton University Press. Princeton Buchanan and R Badham 2008 Power, politics and organisational change, Sage: London Change management, 2012, http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Change_management Filicetti, John (, 2007) Gary Yukl, 2007 Leadership in Organizations, Prentice Hall Goffin, K John Hayes, 2010 “The theory and practice of change management”, Palgrave Macmillan John Kotter 1996 Leading Change, Harvard Business School Press Kotter, J. & Cohen. D., 2002, the Heart of Change, Harvard Business School Linda, H.(2006),“Understanding change: theory, implementation and success” Elsevier Butterworth-Heinemann Phillips, J. R. (1983). Enhancing the Effectiveness of Organizational Change Management. Human Resource Management. Paul Aitken and Malcolm Higgs, 2010, developing change leaders, Butterworth-Heinemann Roth, S