For product leaders, creating new new products and improving existing products are imperatives for success. Maturing technologies and aging product portfolios are requiring companies to discover, develop, and deliver products that customers love. This course is focused on the first step of this journey, identifying and evaluating new product opportunities.
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Developing Innovative Ideas for Product Leaders
This course is part of Product Ideation, Design, and Management Specialization
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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
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1 video5 readings
Examine entrepreneurial thinking within yourself and your colleagues with an awareness of entrepreneurial mindset, entrepreneurial motivations, and entrepreneurial behaviors
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17 videos12 readings3 assignments
Cultivate seeing entrepreneurially within yourself and your colleagues with attention to industry conditions, industry status, macroeconomic change, and competition
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16 videos13 readings4 assignments
Champion acting entrepreneurially within the corporate environment with an understanding of value innovation and opportunity identification
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Reviewed on Jan 30, 2025
This course is very informative and provides insight of the subject.
Reviewed on Mar 9, 2022
Developing Innovative Ideas for Product Leaders help me a lot to understanding and improving my skills on Innovation field that required for ensure we could run the company in digital age
Reviewed on Jun 25, 2022
For online, in this format, not bad. Good use of real world examples.
Recommended if you're interested in Business
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