Course Duration: 2 weeks
Course Overview
This course explores innovative management practices in the context of co-operative principles and profitable business opportunities. While all businesses strive to be innovative, what does this mean for a co-operative? The co-operative model has various areas of strength, including its ownership and control structure, long-term planning horizon, values based decision-making approach, and triple-bottom line imperative. How do we approach innovation to create a co-operative advantage in the areas where we are strongest? This course distils innovation into its component parts in order to develop a foundational understanding of innovation, challenge students to critique their pre-conceptions, and explore models for and examples of innovation.