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MGT 411 Entire Course For more course tutorials
visit www.mgt411.com   MGT 411 Week 1 Innovative
Elevator Speech (2 Papers) MGT 411 Week 2
Innovation/Entrepreneurial Mishaps (2 Papers) MGT
411 Week 2 Innovation and Competitive Advantage
Changing Environments (Starbucks) MGT 411 Week 2
Innovation and Competitive Advantage Changing
Environments (Coca Cola) MGT 411 Week 3
Innovation Entrepreneurial Change Annotated
Bibliography (Blockbuster) MGT 411 Week 3 Aspects
of Design Thinking Paper or Presentation
(Starbucks) MGT 411 Week 3 Aspects of Design
Thinking Paper (Coca Cola) MGT 411 Week
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MGT 411 Final Exam Study Guide For more course
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Exam 1. Technology pushes society when
2. Technologys impact 3Technologys impact is
4The goal of management of technology and
innovation in an organization should always be
to 5There are several definitions of technology
in the text all the definitions have some common
elements. Each definition implies 6Technology
can be broadly defined as 7Evaluation and
control of technology is the 8. The management
of technology is defined as the linking of
different disciplines to 9Innovation can be
defined as 10All of the following are elements
of strategic management EXCEPT 11. are the
monitoring of
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MGT 411 Week 1 Creativity and Innovation Table
(UOP) For more course tutorials
visit www.mgt411.com   Creativity and Innovation
Table Complete the Creativity and Innovation
Table located in the Materials section in Week
One. Describe creativity, innovation, and the
rules of innovation in your own words. Include
the following in your response
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MGT 411 Week 1 DQ 1 and DQ 2 For more course
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DQs Week 1 DQ 1 Of the seven innovation rules
listed in Ch. 1 of making Innovation Work, which
two rules are the most important to successfully
managing innovation? Explain your answer. Week 1
DQ 2 What are some of the most effective and
least effective ways to introduce innovative and
creative change into an organization? How is the
process of innovative management enhanced, or
diminished, by contemporary business practices
including widespread use and access to the
Internet and other communication and media
technologies? Explain your answer.
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MGT 411 Week 1 Innovative Elevator Speech (2
Papers) For more course tutorials
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Papers MGT 411 Week 1 Innovative Elevator Speech
Write a 2- to 3-minute elevator speech in which
you describe how you see yourself as creatively
intelligent, innovative, and/or entrepreneurial.
Describe at least one example of how you promoted
innovation in your personal or professional life.
Online students Present your elevator speech to
two different people. One can be a personal
acquaintance, the other must be a professional
connection. Local Campus students Present your
elevator speech to the class. Write a 525- to
700-wor
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MGT 411 Week 2 DQ 1 and DQ 2 For more course
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DQs Week 2 DQ 1 Adventuring, confronting, and
creating a portfolio of skills are all ways to
encourage creative thinking among employees. What
are the pros and cons of each strategy? What
strategy do you believe is most effective? Why?
Week 2 DQ 2 What are the most important resources
that might be employed in order to communicate
and propagate an innovation plan in an
organization? What factors must be considered
when developing a communication plan regarding
innovation? Why?
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MGT 411 Week 2 Innovation and Competitive
Advantage Changing Environments (Coca Cola) For
more course tutorials visit www.mgt411.com   MGT
411 Week 2 Innovation and Competitive Advantage
Changing Environments Resource Page 69 of
Managing Innovation and Entrepreneurship, Ch. 4
Competitive advantage according to Hisrich and
Kearney (2014) requires organizations to engage
in six processes to maintain innovation.
Organizations like Google, Amazon, Apple,
Android, Facebook, Siri, Virgin Group,
Microsoft
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MGT 411 Week 2 Innovation and Competitive
Advantage Changing Environments (Starbucks) For
more course tutorials visit www.mgt411.com   MGT
411 Week 2 Innovation and Competitive Advantage
Changing Environments Resource Page 69 of
Managing Innovation and Entrepreneurship, Ch. 4
Competitive advantage according to Hisrich and
Kearney (2014) requires organizations to engage
in six processes to maintain innovation.
Organizations like Google, Amazon, Apple,
Android, Facebook, Siri, Virgin Group
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MGT 411 Week 2 Innovation and Strategic
Management Annotated Bibliography For more
course tutorials visit www.mgt411.com   Write an
annotated bibliography of three references on
innovation and strategic management. Your
annotated bibliography must complete the
following Include three APA-formatted references
that are not from the same author. Contain an
abstract of at least 200 words for each
reference. Focus on the relationship between
innovation and strategic management, specifically
on the way innovation is shaping traditional
strategic management. Answer the following in at
least 200 words after you complete your annotated
bibliography Based on your literature
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MGT 411 Week 2 Innovation/Entrepreneurial Mishaps
(2 Papers) For more course tutorials
visit www.mgt411.com   This Tutorial contains 2
Papers MGT 411 Week 2 Innovation/Entrepreneurial
Mishaps Write a 525- to 700-word paper in which
your team identifies 2-3 organizations that have
missed opportunities for innovation and/ are on
the verge of closing down because a more
innovative competitor has overtaken the market.
Analyze innovative strategies that were missed by
the organization, and explain how the
organization either ignored or missed
opportunities for innovation. List and discuss
2-3 innovative strategies that the organization
could use today to potentially rebuild its
entrepreneurial culture. Format your paper
consistent with APA guidelines. Click the
Assignment Files tab to submit your assignment.
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MGT 411 Week 2 Managing Innovation Summary (UOP)
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Discuss the characteristics of managing
innovation listed on p. 23 of The Management of
Technology and Innovation. As a team, rank the
six factors in order of most important to least
important to the innovation process. Write a 350-
to 700-word summary of your discussion that
includes the following Your teams rankings with
a brief description of each characteristic A
description of how the team approached
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MGT 411 Week 3 Aspects of Design Thinking Paper
(Coca Cola) For more course tutorials
visit www.mgt411.com   MGT 411 Week 3 Aspects of
Design Thinking Paper or Presentation Resources
Page 109 of Managing Innovation and
Entrepreneurship, Ch. 6 and the organization you
selected in the Week 2 Individual Assignment
Choose from one of the following options Option
1 Write a 1,200- to 1,400-word paper using the
same organization you selected in Week 2, and
include the following ? Apply the five key
elements of design thinking to analyze the
organizations effectiveness in design thinking
and innovation. ? Evaluate where the organization
excels in design thinking.
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MGT 411 Week 3 Aspects of Design Thinking Paper
or Presentation (Starbucks) For more course
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Aspects of Design Thinking Paper or Presentation
Resources Page 109 of Managing Innovation and
Entrepreneurship, Ch. 6 and the organization you
selected in the Week 2 Individual Assignment
Choose from one of the following options Option
1 Write a 1,200- to 1,400-word paper using the
same organization you selected in Week 2, and
include the following
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MGT 411 Week 3 DQ 1, DQ 2 and Team Reflection
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Week 3 DQ 1 Describe a time when you used
heuristic thinking to solve a problem at work.
What steps did you take to solve the problem?
What was the outcome? Is there anything you might
have changed about your problem-solving process?
Week 3 DQ 2 Leadership, engagement, extension,
and alignment are four key issues related to
implementation. Which of the key implementation
issues do you feel is most important? Which is
least important? Explain your answers. Learning
Team Reflection Week Three
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MGT 411 Week 3 Innovation Entrepreneurial Change
Annotated Bibliography (Blockbuster) For more
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Week 3 Innovation/Entrepreneurial Change
Annotated Bibliography Select one of the
organizations that your team wrote about in the
Week 2 Learning Team Assignment
Innovation/Entrepreneurial Mishaps. Keep this
organization in mind for your Week 4 and 5
Learning Team assignments. Develop a 525- to
700-word annotated bibliography of five or more
references on the following topics innovation
measurement and reward systems, creative problem
solving, and innovation implementation and
evaluation. Be sure to include the following
? APA-formatted references (each from a different
author) ? An abstract of 100 to 200 words for
each reference Click the Assignment Files tab to
submit your assignment.
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MGT 411 Week 3 Innovation Planning and Design
Paper For more course tutorials
visit www.mgt411.com   Write a 1,250- to
1,500-word paper on the innovation planning and
design process addressed in Week Two. Include the
following in your paper Analyze the internal and
external factors related to designing innovation
strategies. Describe how they relate to one
another and to the overall innovation process.
Describe the factors involved in innovation
systems design. Explain the importance of
innovation systems. Describe the steps involved
in the innovation planning process. Format your
paper consistent with APA guidelines and
incorporate at least four scholarly references in
addition to your texts.
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MGT 411 Week 4 DQ 1 and DQ 2 For more course
tutorials visit www.mgt411.com   Week 4 DQ 1 What
are two advantages of merger or acquisition? What
are two disadvantages of merger or acquisition?
List two examples or situations when merger or
acquisition would be more beneficial to a company
than developing technology internally. Week 4 DQ
2 What are the key issues that must be considered
when implementing externally obtained technology?
Do these issues differ from implementing internal
technology? Why or why not?
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MGT 411 Week 4 Global Business Plan (Starbucks)
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MGT 411 Week 4 Global Business Plan Resources
Table 8.1 on page 139 of Managing Innovation and
Entrepreneurship, Ch. 8 and the organization you
selected in the Week 2 Individual Assignment
Choose from one of the following options Option
1 Write a 1,200- to 1,400-word paper using the
same organization you selected in Week 2. Create
a business plan for this organization to enter a
global market in which they are not already doing
business (see section 2 of Table 8.1). Be sure to
include the following ? Description of the
business ? Description of the industry
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MGT 411 Week 4 Innovation/Entrepreneurial Change
Paper (Blockbuster) For more course tutorials
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Innovation/Entrepreneurial Change Paper Use the
same organization that your team selected for the
Week 3 Innovation/Entrepreneurial Change
Annotated Bibliography Assignment. Write a
1,050-word business proposal to the
organizations Board of Directors to revitalize
the organization through some well thought out
innovative strategies. Your proposal should
include the following ? Analysis of the missed
opportunities for innovation which have
negatively impacted the organization.
? Description of innovation measurement and
reward systems for existing employees. ? A
process for creative problem solving.
? Description of the implementation and
evaluation of innovation.
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  MGT 411 Week 4 Innovative Technology Worksheet
(UOP) For more course tutorials
visit www.mgt411.com   Innovative Technology
Worksheet Complete the Innovative Technology
Worksheet
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MGT 411 Week 4 Innovative Thinking in a Business
Measurement and Reward System (UOP) For more
course tutorials visit www.mgt411.com   You are a
management team in a selected virtual
organization. Your business is shifting its focus
and has indicated innovation as a high priority.
To integrate innovation into the culture of the
company even further, an employee measurement and
reward system is being developed by your team.
Access the Virtual Organization on the student
web page to select either Kudler Fine Foods,
Riordan Manufacturing, or Huffman Trucking as the
basis for your team assignment. Write a business
proposal. Determine how you might measure a
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MGT 411 Week 4 Organizational Ecosystem Case
Study (UOP) For more course tutorials
visit www.mgt411.com   Organizational Ecosystem
Case Study Complete the Organizational Ecosystem
Case Study assignment
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MGT 411 Week 5 DQ 1 and DQ 2 For more course
tutorials visit www.mgt411.com   Week 5 DQ 1 What
is the role of leadership in a creative and
innovative culture? What tasks and qualities must
leaders focus on to create and maintain an
innovative culture? Week 5 DQ 2 How might a
leader generate employee motivation to maintain
creativity during times of organizational change?
What are two effective strategies to generate
motivation? What are two ineffective strategies
to generate motivation?
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MGT 411 Week 5 Innovation/Entrepreneurial Change
Presentation (Blockbuster) For more course
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Innovation/Entrepreneurial Change Presentation
Use the same organization that your team selected
for the Week 3 Innovation/Entrepreneurial Change
Annotated Bibliography Assignment. Create a 12-
to 15-slide Microsoft PowerPoint presentation,
with detailed speakers notes, on your innovative
strategic plan to move the organization back to
innovative vitality. Present two innovative
solutions that the organization can use to solve
its current downfall. Address the following in
your presentation ? The history and process that
led the organization to its current state
(include an analysis of the missed opportunities
for innovation as well as an analysis of the
organizations ecosystem in terms of innovation)
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MGT 411 Week 5 Innovative Thinking in a Business
Theory-Based Strategic Experiment Powerpoint
Presentation (UOP) For more course tutorials
visit www.mgt411.com Create a 7- to 10-slide
Microsoft PowerPoint presentation, with
detailed slide notes, on your strategic
experiment. Incorporate the following into your
presentation ? Present two innovative ways to
solve the problem. Address the following six
changes involved with theory-based planning in
your process and presentation Level of detail
Focus on the most critical market, technology,
and unknown costs.
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MGT 411 Week 5 Self-Reflection Motivation For
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411 Week 5 Self-Reflection Motivation Write a
700- to 1,050-word self-reflection on what would
motivate you to work more innovatively. ? Detail
how your current employer can change strategies
within the organization to promote your internal
motivation and innovation. ? Discuss what
motivates you in general to be innovative. ? Be
creative, innovative, and entrepreneurial in your
self-assessment
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MGT 411 Week 5 Training Session Handouts (UOP)
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You are the director of an organization and you
are tasked with training your management team on
creative problem solving, leadership, and
employee motivation. Create three bullet-point
handouts to distribute during your training
session. The handouts must address the following
topics Creative problem solving Describe
approaches to creative problem solving and ways
to encourage creative problem solving among
employees. Employee motivation Identify ways to
generate motivation during times of
organizational change.
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