Innovative Discovery: Based on your application of the course materials and outside sources, students are asked to develop a process that they can first use internally and second use within their organizations to support the development of innovation. Remember, that your organization knows you, so you will have to be considerate of how you are viewed and how you can leverage adoption and diffusion networks to begin building opinion leadership to support adoption of this new process for innovation. Your final project should include the process for innovation that elevates your personal consciousness and the organizational consciousness to a space of innovation. Additionally, it should include how you will work with the systems that created barriers (consider your first major assignment in this class) to maximize adoption of this new process. Ultimately, you are attempting to create a trajectory for shifting to a culture of innovation. Hence, explain what this reflects and the process for how to get there organizationally. Reflect on the materials within this course and how you can integrate them into this final assignment.
Grading Rubric
Your assignment will be graded according to the grading rubric.
cover page
Introduction
Process – 150
Adoption Plan – 100
Implications – 50
Creativity – 50
Conclusion
reference page
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