Leading Emergence: Creative Adaptive Space in Response to Complex Challenge

Leading Emergence: Creative Adaptive Space in Response to Complex Challenge

Course Number
DYNM 603 001
Course Code
DYNM603001
Course Key
64722
Day(s)
Friday
Saturday
Sunday
Time
9:00am-5:00pm
9:00am-5:00pm
8:00am-12:00pm
Instructor
Prerequisites
Permit requests for non-DYNM students: https://www.sas.upenn.edu/lps/graduate/dynamics/course-permit
Primary Program
Course Note
DYNM Categories: F, A; DYNM Concentration: LMC. Schedule in description
Course Description
This course will meet in-person over two weekends (February 14-16 & April 17-19) and have three 1.5 hour virtual meetings (February 3; March 16; April 20)

This seminar is designed to be highly experiential so that participants can engage in the practices necessary to enable innovation and adaptation. Participants will examine emergent innovation theory by addressing the dynamics and conditions in which ideas emerge in an informal manner, garner organizational attention, and gain momentum towards becoming successful innovations or bold changes within complex organizations. This will include examining the need for adaptive space in generating value that drives growth by enabling an environment of idea generation, entrepreneurship and innovation while leveraging the benefits of existing, formal systems to scale these ideas. Participants will explore and engage in such topics as creative experimentation, idea emergence, organizational network analysis, social capital, design thinking, organizational analytics and complexity leadership.
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