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Leading Innovation Program by Rice Business

  • Three-day course
  • Top-ranked school
  • #1 Graduate Entrepreneurship Program
  • World-renowned faculty

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Drive Personal and Organizational Success

Learn from the #1 graduate entrepreneurship program* and become the changemaker the business world needs with our Leading Innovation program. Innovation ensures competitive advantage in today’s complex business environment. Acquire essential skills for innovating in your organization and beyond, and build long lasting success in your career.

Upcoming Dates & Tuition

  • May 6-8, 2024

  • Time: 8:30 am to 4:30 pm each day

  • Tuition: $4,875

Jing Zhou, Ph.D.

Meet Your Professor

Professor Zhou's areas of expertise include creativity, innovation, entrepreneurship, leadership and negotiation. She is a highly accomplished scholar who ranks among the top 1% of influential researchers in business and management. 

Jing Zhou, Ph.D.
Deputy Dean of Academic Affairs, Rice Business
Mary Gibbs Jones Professor of Management and Psychology 

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Overview

This program will equip you with a comprehensive framework to successfully identify, cultivate and manage innovation at the individual, team and organizational levels. In our three-day course, you’ll explore three core elements of innovation strategy – people, process and culture – and examine scientifically-proven approaches to innovation. You’ll walk away with actionable tools to accelerate the application of innovation practices within your organization.

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Who Should Attend

  • Individuals at all levels who have the drive to innovate and facilitate innovation in their organizations

  • Leaders looking to identify, cultivate and manage innovation within their teams

Program Takeaways 

  • Skills to lead innovation  

  • Proven innovation models that can be used in your own organization

  • Strategies for creating and sustaining an innovative culture

More Details

This program will address the three core elements of innovation strategy to ensure sustainable growth in all organizations – people, process and culture.

Core Elements of Innovation Strategy
People Leaders are responsible for building and leading innovative teams who embrace opportunities and implement these ideas. Focus on how to introduce new strategies which enable others to think and act innovatively.
Process

The lifecycle of innovation evolves from idea generation to implementation. The process of leading the entire innovation value chain is essential, from design thinking, to disruptive innovation, to balancing exploitation and exploration. Discover how matching your innovation strategy with the ecosystem, both internally and externally, will help prepare you for success.
Culture

Conducting a diagnostic assessment of your internal and external environments is crucial to the advancement or restriction of innovation. Learn strategies for building a conducive work environment to support your culture of innovation.

(Note: Leading Innovation was formerly named Business Innovation and Corporate Innovation.)

Business Innovation Keynote Speakers and Advisory Board

The Leading Innovation program is supported by an advisory board consisting of distinguished innovation leaders. These advisors provide feedback on the program's curriculum and serve as keynote speakers during the program. Participants have the exceptional opportunity to learn from and connect with influential individuals who are driving change.

Tom Peck, EVP, Chief Information and Digital Officer, Sysco

Tom Peck

Executive Vice President, Chief Information and Digital Officer
Sysco

*# 1 Graduate Entrepreneurship - Princeton Review and Entrepreneur Magazine, 2020, 2021, 2022 & 2023 (over 10 years in Top 10)

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