While this requires constant efforts at innovation, the failure rate of these innovations is high.
Many innovations fail to take root at all.
Others are not sustained over the long term. Even the most technology driven innovations require organizational change. Successful organizational change, in turn, requires both technical vision and political coalition-building strategies. This course will describe how successful organizational entrepreneurs build teams that balance technical and political competence. We will examine in detail cases of successful innovations, and those where the innovation failed or was not sustained.