This course perfectly aligns with NUCB's Mission Statement as it guides to nurturing leaders with Frontier spirits who can bridge cultural differences. It will provide students insights to confront situations where they require innovating thinking, innovating actions and innovative problem solving within an international context.

The course encompasses case method discussions which provide insights in forming answers to questions such as; Why do companies pursue innovation? What type of innovation are they going after? How does it matter to business? Why would strategy be critical to innovation? What are the drivers for innovation?
Innovation is much more than about technology, which covers business model, customer experience and work style innovations. This course pays particular attention to innovations found in industries related to science and technology, a la disruptive innovation - with case analysis extending to various angles; corporate strategy, company culture, leadership behaviors, teaming, talent management, R&D portfolio control and collaborative work.

When breaking down the course theme into three elements, (1)Driving force, (2)Strategy and (3) Innovation, companies face decision making crossroads at each. Driving force comprises topics of discipline vs creativity, entrepreneurship vs corporate culture, experimental vs proven. Strategy carries out controversies of balancing short term and long term results, company culture alignment, organizational change, and human resource evaluation. Innovation incorporates considerations on issues such as insource vs outsource , ambiguity vs clarity, and bottom up vs top down.
Through a wide array of discussion, the course intends to observe the social and economic impact of driving strategic technological innovations.

Through the case discussions, the class will co-create knowledge on innovation from an organizational, technological and strategical point of views while searching into mindfulness and personal aspects which form the basis for innovation.

*本学の教育ミッションを具現化する形で設定されています。

Through case method discussion and with your active involvement, the course is designed to hand over 'thinking tools' when driving strategic innovation. The course intends you to be ready for shaping strategies that answer basic questions of why, what and how - Why do we need innovation? What do we need to do? and How are we going to make it happen?
A set of insights which you take away from the classroom, we hope, becomes an armour of thoughts in constructing coherent narratives for driving strategic innovation - narratives of which will be shared among your colleagues and team members.

教育手法 Teaching Method		% of Course Time
インプット型 Traditional		0 %
参加者中心型 Participant-Centered Learning	ケースメソッド Case Method	100 %
	フィールドメソッド Field Method	0 %
合計 Total		100 %

Participants will leave this program armed with the knowledge of how to influence corporate culture, alter the way their organization responds to the challenge of innovation. This intensive case discussion learning experience will deliver multi-faceted insights which help leaders to:
- face technology challenges, from R&D to manufacturing, project management to engineering
- linking R&D portfolio decisions with business strategy
- Understand how technologies and markets evolve and how they are linked
( The course does not hesitate to discuss technology matters when necessary. )

Case Analysis Reports
The course requires to write ( a minimum of 1 page ) case analysis for one of the questions in each case.
( total of more than 8 pages for 8 cases )
They will be collected before each day and the reports will consist 50% of the final grade.

*成績は下記該当項目を基に決定されます。
*クラス貢献度合計はコールドコールと授業内での挙手発言の合算値です。

講師用内規準拠 Method of Assessment	Weights
コールドコール Cold Call	5 %
授業内での挙手発言 Class Contribution	45 %
クラス貢献度合計 Class Contribution Total	50 %
予習レポート Preparation Report	50 %
小テスト Quizzes / Tests	0 %
シミュレーション成績 Simulation	0 %
ケース試験 Case Exam	0 %
最終レポート Final Report	0 %
期末試験 Final Exam	0 %
参加者による相互評価 Peer Assessment	0 %
合計 Total	100 %

評価の留意事項　Notes on Evaluation Criteria

Please take a solid time for Case Analysis Reports (Preparation Reports).

• Peter Thiel「Zero to One: Notes on Start Ups, or How to Build the Future」Virgin Books（2015）978-0753555194
• Chade-Meng-Tan「Search Inside Yourself」Harper One（2014）978006211693-2

How Will You Measure Your Life?
by Clayton M. Christensen

Zen Mind Beginner's Mind
by Shunryu Suzuki

- Everything was really good overall --> by far one of the best classes we had at NUCB
- I feel that there was a deep attention on selecting the appropriate cases. And I also found that the final question made us think deeply on our own career.
- Education is not only about learning frameworks! That is the lesson I will remember about this class! Innovation finds its source inside of us, inside of our passion and we should always be open to learn about different approaches to be creative