Following New Directions

Educators discuss the lessons they’ve learned as they’ve implemented innovation in their curricula. While no approach works for everyone, these educators hope there’s inspiration here for others who want to take new paths in management education.

To develop a wide-ranging workforce, business schools must first understand how all aspects of their programs—their curricula, their faculty, their locational advantages, their cultures—work together. Only with that understanding can they forge fresh approaches to developing innovative leadership.

Students must learn not only how to understand a problem, but also how to use new ways of thinking to generate innovative solutions.

If organizations want to innovate, says Cheryl Perkins of Innovationedge, they must focus on products, processes, and people.

Faculty and administration at the University of Central Missouri put their management students in charge of the learning process.