Course Description:
This course focuses on the strategies that leaders require to create, implement, and guide their organizations successfully through disruptive innovation − both that of their own making and that which is driven by external and uncontrollable circumstances.  The course examines the drivers of disruptive innovation to include emerging technologies, globalization, and demographic shifts.  It explores models of innovation and change as well as evolving concepts of organizational innovation and strategy designed to cope with uncertainty and rapid rates of change.  It also examines the barriers to and levers of disruptive innovation such as leadership, organizational culture, and bureaucratic politics, and their relationship to disruptive innovation.

Recommended Attendance:
The course is critical for DoD, national and international security community officers and civilian executives, particularly State and Homeland Security Departments, who have, or aspire to, hold leadership positions with transformation responsibilities.   

Prerequisites:
None

Learning Outcomes
Students will be able to develop effective strategies for leading organizations through disruptive innovation; to analyze the strengths and weaknesses of various strategies; and to leverage leadership, organizational culture, and bureaucratic politics to achieve successful organizational transformation.