Learning objectives
The candidate will manage the fundamentals of all the main discipline connected to Innovation, powerfully integrated, with their languages, semantics, application tools.
Once working in an organization, the candidate will be able to cover many roles related to innovation, mainly new product development in manufacturing, but also in any other application of the innovation process.
Prerequisites
None
Course unit content
Innovation definition & basics. Types of Innovation.
Stakeholder management, power/interest analysis, power types, French&Raven model.
Business analysis introduction and basics, requirements management, elicitation and traceability methods & tools.
WHY, WHAT, HOW categories, QFD, Quality Function Deployment.
New Product Development tools; the innovation funnel; Stage & Gate methods; automotive APQP quick tour.
Project Management basics, predictive process groups; knowledge area: scope - time - cost. Earned Value Management.
Team dynamics in innovations. Leadership, team management models. Motivational theories.
Program, Portfolio; demand management system; Innovation Project Portfolio Management.
Risk Based Thinking; risk management grammar; tools: SWOT, PxI Matrix; risk management processes; risk response planning.
FMEA, Design & Process; failure modes, effects, causes, detection, metrics, RPN, treatments action and improvement.
Agile mindset, 4 Values & 12 Principles. Iteration-based development. Sprint, events & artifacts.
Design Thinking basics: Empathize, Define, Ideate, Prototype, Test.
Full programme
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Bibliography
The study materials is based on the lessons slides, with other external annexes and contributions given by the trainer.
The is not one specific book.
For Project Management and Business Analysis, the reference model is the PMI one (PMBOK, Project Management Body of Knowledge).
For New Product Development the reference model is PDMA (Product Development Management Association), with some hints taken from ISO IATF 16949 for the automotive market.
For Risk Management the reference model is ISO 31000.
For AgileMoindset the reference model is Scrum Guide, by Ken Schwaber and Jeff Sutherland, and Agile Practice Guide, by PMI.
For Design Thinking, the reference model is the Design Thinking Foundation by Ideo and literature referring to Hasso Plattner Institute of Design di Stanford.
Teaching methods
Live lessons, based on the slides, with a huge spectrum of case study taken from manuafcturing real world and with a high interactivity with participants.
Lessons will be registered on Teams or similar platform, available for limited time, to support personal study; live participation to the lessons is highly recommended.
Assessment methods and criteria
The examination is splitted into 2 parts:
A. a written test, with some questions with close answers and a few exercise - with a 60% weight on the final vote,
B. a brief relation exploring one of the themes of the course, choose by the students, that can be developed in a group of max 3 students - with a 40% weight on the final vote.
Other information
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