NS4755 Strategy and Innovation for Homeland Defense and Security Professionals

Offered through the Center for Homeland Defense and Security. Employing a social entrepreneurship approach to the strategic process, this course will provide students with the necessary methodological tools and content to think differently about strategy, manage complex challenges, and facilitate a planning process that fosters innovation and positive change in the homeland security enterprise. Prerequisites: None.

Lecture Hours

4

Lab Hours

0

Course Learning Outcomes

• Students will be able to counteract the “failure of imagination problem” in homeland defense and security policies by demonstrating in practice strong ideation skills in a real-world environment, by designing a project from its ideation phase.
• Students will demonstrate, by conducting a real-world project, that they can generate a business canvas based on lean strategy practices and run the appropriate activities to validate the business model through the application of effective entrepreneurship.
• Apply key strategic concepts (e.g. Competitive analysis, disruptive innovation theory, foresight practices, effectuation, etc.) in real-world settings in the context of business case studies and real-world project-based work.
• Students will demonstrate that they can build the appropriate coalitions to drive change within their organizations by effectively collaborating with their team members and presenting an effective “demo” at the end of the class of the project they managed.
• Students will demonstrate their understanding of foresight practices by participating in foresight exercises.