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16 hours

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Mode of learning

Online

Difficulty level

Beginner

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Highlights

  • Earn a shareable certificate upon completion.
  • Flexible deadlines according to your schedule.
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  • The Master Class experience is designed to serve as the final project experience for the Corporate Entrepreneurship Specialization. Alternatively, professionals with experience in opportunity analysis, business modeling, and corporate finance are invited to complete the Master Class experience without the preliminary courses.
  • With maturing technologies and aging product portfolios requiring established companies to create, develop, and sustain innovative new businesses, graduates of the Master Class will develop an understanding of how to create new businesses and initiatives within the corporate environment. In collaboration with our award-winning faculty, and a vibrant peer group, learners will explore and apply the skills, tools, and best practices for:
  • ? Identifying and developing the entrepreneurial opportunities;
  • ? Building business models;
  • ? Creating strategies for leading innovation; and
  • ? Financing and profiting from innovation.
  • The Master Class experience is differentiated from typical Coursera courses and MOOCs in that our faculty and staff are actively engaged with learners by providing individual feedback on assignments. Our faculty and staff will review and offer feedback on the major assignment submissions, if you wish, in an effort to assist you in developing and launching your corporate ventures.
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Curriculum

Identifying and Analyzing the Opportunity

Key enablers of corporate entrepreneurship

Setting up a formal structure for corporate entrepreneurship

What are entrepreneurial opportunities?

Asking for ideas from employees

What impact do knowledge conditions have in your industry?

Are the demand conditions in your industry favorable?

What is the lifecycle stage of your industry?

Is the industry capital intensive?

Is the industry advertising intensive?

Are you trying to enter a concentrated market?

What is the average size of a company in the industry?

What demographic changes are creating new market needs?

What psychographic changes are opportunistic?

What technical advancements are emerging?

What societal changes are presenting new opportunities?

What political and regulatory forces will influence the market?

How does the learning curve influence your success?

What complementary assets are critical to develop?

What is the reputation of your competitors?

What is value innovation?

What existing factors can you eliminate?

Where can you reduce factors and not reduce value?

Which factors can you raise above competitors?

What new factors can you create?

Is the problem real?

Does your solution create value for your stakeholders?

Is your advantage superior and sustainable?

Can you build the right team at the right time?

Welcome

Meet Dr. James V. Green

The Opportunity Analysis Canvas

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Opportunity Analysis

Building the Business Model

Customer, market, and value propostion

Product-market fit: The heart of the business model

Walkthrough of the Business Model Canvas - Part 1

Walk-through of the Business Model Canvas - Part 2

How do you develop a business model?

Why talk to customers? What do they know?

How to get insights from customers

What to do before the interview

Building a pipeline of customer interviews

What to do after the interview

Cold calling 101

Why have customer segments at all?

Customer segments, value propositions, and product features

Customer types

Customer segments and business models

Minimum viable product (MVP)

Crossing the chasm

What is a channel?

Product-channel fit

Cost structure

Key activities

The rest of the business model canvas

Key partnerships

Key resources

Meet Dan Gordon

Business Model Generation

Talking to Humans

Initial Business Model Canvas

Crafting Strategies for Innovation Initiatives

What are some basic types of innovations?

How can an audit reveal innovation competence and weakness?

How many ways can companies innovate?

How does innovation occur at different business levels?

How does technology uncertainty influence an innovation in the marketplace?

What are key "associating" skills of innovators?

How do innovation managers survive an innovation project?

What's inside an innovation portfolio?

How do disruptive innovations change the marketplace?

How are innovations revealed in a blue ocean strategy?

How can lead users contribute to an innovation strategy?

How can open innovation become an entrepreneurial strategy?

Meet Dr. Thomas J. Mierzwa

Managing Innovation

Innovation Roadmap

Building the Proposal

Financial statement metrics

The entrepreneurial spectrum

The "too typical" return on investment (ROI) process

Finance for the corporate entrepreneur

A better approach to return on investment (ROI)

Intangible assets and return on investment (ROI)

Financial statement basics

Financial statement details

Sources of funding

Internal funding

Customer and vendor financing

Franchising

Joint ventures

Co-branding

Licensing agreements

Business proposals and the pitch

How to write an effective business proposal

What do your funding sources want to see

How to create a pitch deck

Do's and don'ts of the pitch

Meet Michael R. Pratt

Entrepreneurial Finance

Earn a Degree Online in Entrepreneurship and Innovation

Final Business Model Canvas

Final Pitch

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