Relate The Innovation Management Practice To The Current Research: Project Management Assignment, TCD, Ireland

MODULE LEARNING OUTCOMES ASSESSED:

Knowledge and Understanding:

Successful students will typically have a knowledge and understanding of-

• Relate the Innovation Management practice to the current research and theories relevant to the project management body of knowledge.

Skills and Attributes:

Successful students will typically be able to-

• apply different reading strategies appropriately to a modest range of texts;
• Utilize sources and employ appropriate referencing conventions.
• Illustrate the appropriate use of project planning skills, project management skills, professional skills in innovation projects.
• review and analyze current research in the area of innovation project management and synthesize the findings related to a selected topic;

ASSIGNMENT DETAILS:

Innovation is widely recognized as a major driver of economic growth. Yet innovation projects can be difficult to manage: they typically involve a high level of uncertainty, and many organizations are unsatisfied with the level of innovation they achieve. In this assignment, you should focus on issues in the management of innovation projects at the individual project level, organizational level, and across networks of organizations.

Since a systematic approach can and does improve our effectiveness in managing innovation, you should begin by exploring several different process models of the stages through which innovation projects are managed. Also Discuss the context and challenges which impact such projects, as well as the concepts of creativity and intellectual property management.

Using at least one focused case study, analyze best practices in the structures and processes that organizations can provide to enable innovation, as well as to support the search, selection, implementation, dissemination, feedback, and evaluation stages of their innovative projects.