5. • Established in 1986
• Excellent group at Karlstad
University
• Involved in research, undergraduate
and graduate education in
cooperation with companies and
other organizations
• Over 60 researchers and Ph D
students in business administration,
working life science, sociology,
economics, psychology and
sociology of religion
• International visiting professors
Facts & figures
6. Research
CTF's efforts to develop
groundbreaking theoretical
knowledge has resulted in
multidisciplinary research
themes: Service Management,
Service Innovation and
Service Experience.
Based on these themes we
now develop a crosscutting
theme on Transformative
Service Research.
9. Purpose of the course
• to prepare participants for analytical and practical work
related to idea management by introducing useful methods
and theories.
• connect business professionals through engaging
conversations around current research on the topic of idea
management.
10. Two courses in one
Credit bearing
distance course
Open networked
learning course
Course website:
hhk3.kau.se/im
11. Learning outcomes
Upon completion of the course, students should be able to:
• give an account of theories on idea management.
• apply methods for idea generation, idea refinement and idea
assessment.
• reflect on the different stages in the idea development process.
• analyse the idea development process of e.g. your own
organisation and assess possible areas of improvement.
14. Assignments in module 1
Everyone:
• Active participation (Webinar and Tweetchat)
• Describe in a blog post on the course website how your
current or previous employer (or a freely chosen
organization) works with Idea Management.
16. Assignments in module 2-4
Everyone:
Active participation (Webinars, Tweetchats and Practical work)
Write a blog post on the course website where you
reflect on the specific theme in the different modules.
18. Project work
Credit bearing course:
Write a final reflection where you analyse an
organisation´s idea development process, and
propose areas of improvement, based on your
theoretical and practical experiences from
the course.
The project work will be uploaded to the Canvas platform.
27. Next step
1. Go to the course webpage and create a user account
https://hhk3.kau.se/im/module-1-introduction-and-theoretical-background-to-idea-management-im74/
2. Create a Twitter account
Twitter.com
Introduce you to idea management, front end innovation and open innovation
Introduce you to idea generation, who can gerenate ideas, how can we
Reserch about decision making in the front end innovation phase (i.e. the first evaluations of new ideas)
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