Leverage organisational resources to set your company apart and drive innovation for business performance.
8 weeks, excluding
orientation
6–8 hours per week,
entirely online.
Weekly modules,
flexible learning
1
The ability to benchmark your business against competitors and the confidence to respond to disruption and competition strategically.
2
A strategic assessment of what makes your business unique and current organisational resources that could be used for competitive advantage.
3
The skills to drive innovation through the strategic application of design thinking, customer journey mapping and blue ocean strategy.
4
A practical, comprehensive toolkit to foster consistent innovation in your organisation for improved business performance.
Over the duration of this online short course, you’ll work through the following modules:
MODULE 1 The resource-based view of the firm
Learn about the key concepts that define a resource-based perspective of competitive strategy and innovation.
MODULE 2 The trade-off between value creation and value capture
Learn more about coopetition, value creation, and the trade off between value creation and value capture.
MODULE 3 Value proposition and strategic resources
Learn how to leverage strategic resources to protect a unique value proposition.
MODULE 4 Cumulative resources and internal organisation
Learn about leveraging cumulative resources to bolster your organisation’s unique value position.
MODULE 5 Innovation, competition, and blue ocean strategy
Use the concept of the blue ocean strategy to suggest changes in competitive positioning.
MODULE 6 Disruption and competence destruction
Discover how agile organisations can resource the right innovations.
MODULE 7 Design thinking for an innovation system
Learn about the design thinking process, and how it applies to an organisational context.
MODULE 8 Customer journey mapping and innovation in practice
Reflect on how you might be able to apply innovation systems in your organisational context.
Please note that module titles and their contents are subject to change during course development.
Dr Lourdes Sosa
Associate Professor, LSE Department of Management
Prior to joining LSE as an associate professor, Dr Lourdes Sosa spent seven years at the London Business School where she taught in the MBA, Executive MBA, Master of Management and Executive Education programmes. She received her PhD at the MIT Sloan School of Management. Preceding her academic career she worked in R&D management at General Electric and General Motors.
Dr Sosa studies technological discontinuities, a pervasive phenomenon in which a radical change in technologies disrupts a market, commonly referred to as creative destruction. In her work she uses technological discontinuities as an opportunity to contribute to mainstream strategy's objective of explaining within-market differences in firm performance. Furthermore, by looking at variation in the ability of established firms to adapt to a radical change in technologies, she also finds an opportunity to contribute to research on organisational change.
She is specifically interested in understanding the competitive dynamics of the R&D race that ensues through a technological discontinuity, thus her current interest in the pharmaceutical industry and the biotechnology revolution.
An active member of the Academy of Management, INFORMS, and the Industry Studies Association, she has won awards from these associations for her research. She is currently on the Editorial Board of the Academy of Management Journal.
This Competitive Strategy and Innovation online certificate course is certified by the United Kingdom CPD Certification Service, and may be applicable to individuals who are members of, or are associated with, UK-based professional bodies. The course has an estimated 70 hours of learning.
Note: should you wish to claim CPD activity, the onus is on you. The London School of Economics and Political Science (LSE) and GetSmarter accept no responsibility, and cannot be held responsible, for the claiming or validation of hours or points.
“The overall content of the course was very valuable and the topics covered are crucial to any institution. This is my second online course with LSE, the previous one being the MBA Essentials, which was also great.”
Ahmad Sallakh
CEO, Al Nabil Food Industries
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