WHY CHOOSE TO MINOR IN ORGANIZATIONAL INNOVATION?

A minor in Organizational Innovation is a perfect complement to any major, regardless of your career choice, particularly if you aspire to an upper-level or executive management position in your field.

Through this minor you will:

• Develop personal and professional leadership characteristics, a systematic way to cultivate your creativity and a management framework that will give you highly differentiated resume-and the confidence to be a leader and innovator in your field.
• You'll practice a variety of thinking styles: divergent, convergent, design, critical, analytical integrative and creative, among others to become an inventive, flexible resourceful problem solver and design thinker who brings the capacity for positive change to the work place-either as an employee or an entrepreneur.
• Learn that innovation-that is to say designing and implementing creative ideas-is an essential element to any organization that wants to stay relevant and competitive in today's fast-paced society.
• This minor (18 credits for non-Division of Business majors; 15 credits for majors from all other Divisions), will teach the latest techniques for developing your creative talent to analyze problems, create solutions and seize opportunities in many contexts.
• The minor emphasizes the conscious application of creativity, design thinking, innovation and change management.

COURSES IN THIS MINOR CURRENTLY INCLUDE:

• MGT 100: Building a Business in a Global Environment (omit if you are taking a major in the Division of Business)
• MGT 210: Management & Organizational Behavior
• MGT 345: Being the Change: The Art & Science of Leadership
• INV 210: Creativity & Innovation in Business
• INV 310: Managing Innovation & Technology
• INV 410: Designing Innovative Organizations

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