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If you are hoping for a
straight path to impact,
innovating may appear
daunting at first. You need
a lot of information to trace
changes at the outcome
all the way back to the
beginnings.

Luis Perez-Breva

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04 /What if innovation was about being

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Index productively wrong?

06 / Innovation

08 / About the Course

09 / Key Takeaways

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10 / Participant profile

11 / Instructor

12 / Course Outline

13 / Certificate of Completion

15 / About MIT Professional Education

17 / Why should you pursue an MIT Professional

Education Online Course?

18 / The Beyond Online Methodology

20 / Benefits of joining the Community

21 / Corporate Courses

22 / The Experience in Numbers

23 / Testimonials

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What if innovation was
about being productively
wrong?
Innovating—our minds are trained to
hear or read that word and imagine end
results awash with flash and grandeur:
a revolutionary product launch;
a cure for a centuries-old illness;
pristine robots coursemed to handle
manufacturing operations. While
these “end results” are undoubtedly
impressive, they expose a flaw in our
thinking about what “innovating”
really means and how innovations
are developed. At its genesis, no
thing about an innovations is new.
In fact, we deem them innovations
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only in hindsight, disregarding the
nonlinear process— full of twists and
turns, challenges and progress— that
advances them toward real-world
impact. What we celebrate today as
innovations—all of which originated
from a simple hunch about a problem to
solve—are the result of incredible effort
and, most importantly, of persistence
and being productively wrong.
The challenge is to turn that hunch
into an idea and scale it up to solve a
problem that matters.

With MIT Professional Education’s
online course, Innovation and
Technology, you will discover how to
do so. Beginning with an initial hunch
and the resources and knowledge
you already have, you will explore
innovating as a systematic process that
diverges from the flawed hindsight-
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Doing so will enable you to establish
innovating as an integral function in
your organization, scaling up from a
hunch as you forge a path to solve
problems that matter.

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heavy approach.

Innovating is essential to your

organization. Throughout this course,
you will examine the role of critical
thinking as you compile resources and
knowledge and create an innovating
toolkit to solve real-world problems.

Innovating

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Innovation is about being productively wrong. Without
attempts, yielding both failure and success, society
as we know it would not exist. Now, the accelerating
Clara Piloto rate of technological growth relies on trailblazers with
Director of Global Programs innovative ideas and the ability to take advantage of
at MIT Professional existing technology in order to elevate it to new heights
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and strengthen their organizations.

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Innovation

+300%

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Large innovators that outperform their big-
company peers put more money behind
their innovation courses—1.4 times more
as a percentage of sales*—and they get far
greater payoffs: four times as much as a

50%
percentage of sales (+300).

Source: BCG (Boston Consulting Group)

Over the next 10 years, around

50% of the companies* currently
on the Fortune 500 list will be
replaced. The life expectancy
of large companies is rapidly
declining as startups enter the
market at a rapid pace. Innovation
helps these companies to remain
75%
relevant.
The number of companies reporting that
Source: Fortune innovation is among their organizations’
top three priorities.

Source: BCG (Boston Consulting Group)

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About
8 weeks

the Course 8-10 hours a week

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MIT Professional Education’s online course Innovation and Technology you can:

• Explore the systematic process of innovating

• Examine the role of critical thinking in innovating

• Learn more about the benefits this framework can offer you and your
organization

Register

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Key
Takeaways
This course offers a fresh
approach—a doer’s approach—to
innovating. Aspiring innovators
will explore how to turn their
“hunches” into tangible, real-world
problems by learning to envision the
organizations that can solve them.
You will discover the advantages
of converting challenges into
opportunities and acquire the
necessary tools and techniques to
work with parts and people to move
forward in your innovating.
Throughout this course,
participants will:
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01 • Delve into hunches: what they look
like and their central role in solving
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real-world problems.
02 • Examine the solvable, recognizable,
and verifiable attributes of real-
world problems in order to devise
solutions for them.
03 • Engage in a process of critical
thinking to prototype and scale up
your problem.
04 • Develop a kit for innovating,
incorporating the strategies and tools
needed to transform hunches into
real-world impact.
05 • Work with strategies for scoping out
a space of opportunity.
06 • Address significant problems with
limited resources by bringing them
down to table scale.
07 • Discover how to secure the tangible
and non-tangible resources needed
to scale up your work.
08 • Explore how to collect and use data
and information appropriately and
to your advantage to write a final
technology-problem report that
advances your innovating.
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Participant
Profile
Innovating is a cornerstone of business. In this cross-sectional course, professionals
from any industry, business model, or position in an organization will benefit from the

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tools, skills, and knowledge on offer. This course is aimed at professionals with an
enthusiasm for innovating, including:

C-suite and managers undergoing transformative processes in which

innovation is central to success.

Entrepreneurs of tech start-ups with innovativeaspirations.

Technical experts with a strong interest in technology and innovation.

Professionals across all on the path to discovering how to truly innovate in

industries their businesses.

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Instructor
Instructor
Dr. Luis Perez-Breva
MIT Faculty Director of Innovation Teams
Enterprise (MIT Engineering and MIT Sloan)
Innovator, Educator, Author, AI Problem Solver
Luis Perez-Breva, Ph.D., is an
expert in technological innovation,
an entrepreneur, and the author of
Innovating: A Doer’s Manifesto for
Starting from a Hunch, Prototyping
Problems, Scaling Up, and Learning
to be Productively Wrong (MIT Press,
2017). Currently, Perez-Breva directs
the MIT Innovation Teams (iTeams)
Course, MIT’s flagship, hands-on
innovation course operated jointly by
the Institute’s School of Engineering
and the Sloan School of Management.
During his tenure, iTeams has
shepherded more than 170 MIT
technologies to discover a path to
impact.
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Perez-Breva co-led the Innovation
Pillar of the MIT Skoltech Initiative and
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collaborates with MIT’s innovation
initiatives in Portugal, Singapore, and Abu
Dhabi. He has taught innovating as a skill
worldwide to professionals and students
from all disciplines and has gotten them
started on innovating from any basis:
hunches, real-world problems, engineering
problem sets, and research breakthroughs.
Perez-Breva is a serial innovator with
achievements in emergency cell phone
location technologies currently deployed
worldwide and a fully automated portfolio
allocation and trading system.
As an innovator and entrepreneur, he has
also worked on genetics and healthcare
intelligence, and has developed several
non-profit organizations, including
building a new university centered around
innovation. He has numerous stories to
share from his trial-anderror adventures to
conceive artificial intelligence technologies
that tackle real-world problems and drive
them to market.
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Course
Outline
Module 1. Introduction to General 2. Differences Between Digital and Tangible Technologies

Method and Structure of Problems 3. Digital Twins

4. Five Guiding Principles for Identifying Parts
1. How to Get Started Innovating

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2. Innovations in Hindsight and Foresight
3. Real-World Problem Attributes
Module 5: Advocating for What’s Next -
4. A Crash Course in Critical Thinking
Scaling Up
5. Overview of Method of De-risking and Mindset
1. Describing an Opportunity Space Tangibly
2. Scoping Out What a Demonstration Could Look Like

Module 2. On Hunches and Scoping 3. Introduction to De-risking and Roadmapping

Out Problems 4. On Handling Uncertainty and Risk

1. What Does a Hunch Look Like?

2. Why Do We Use the Term “Hunch?”
3. How to Come Up with a Hunch - Part 1 Module 6: Creating a Technology –
4. How to Come Up with a Hunch - Part 2 Problem Report
5. Moving Forward from a Hunch
1. The Nature of Data and Evidence Over Time
2. The Pitfalls to Avoid When Creating a Technology-
Problem
Module 3. What Does a Successful
3. Report
Digital Ecosystem Look Like?
4. How to Build Your Problem Report: General Guidelines
1. Strategies to Explore a Space of Opportunity:
5. Reusable Lessons
Outlining Your Organization
2. The Elements of an Organizational Hypothesis
3. Being Productively Wrong through Conversation
4. Operating Principles to Learn through

Conversations

Module 4. Making the Problem

andOpportunities Tangible (Parts
andPeople) at Table Scale Register

1. Finding Parts and Bring Your Problem Down to

Table Scale

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Enrollment
Process

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Complete the form on the registration page.

Your place will be reserved upon confirmation

of payment.

You will receive a welcome email with the steps

to follow.

You will then be able to access the virtual campus and

become familiar with it before your course begins.

The course content will be available on the

start date.

You will begin your journey towards MIT

knowledge.

Register

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Certificate of
Completion
All participants who successfully
complete the course will receive an MIT
Professional Education Certificate of
Completion. In addition, they will also
earn 6.4 Continuing Education Units
(MIT CEUs).
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In order to obtain CEUs, participants
must complete a required CEU
accreditation form. CEUs are calculated
based on the number of learning hours
in each course.
* A CEU is a unit of credit equivalent
to 10 hours of participation in an
accredited course for professionals.
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About MIT
Professional
Education
MIT Professional Education provides
continuing education courses and
lifelong learning opportunities for
science, engineering, and technology
professionals at all levels, from around
the world. Worthy of note is that MIT
professors and lecturers lead and
teach all MIT Professional Education
offerings. Some of our courses have a
long history, others are relatively new.
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MIT Professional
Education fosters
the development of
innovative leaders
equipped to
address complex
problems globally
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Our Digital Plus courses go beyond
online, blending cutting-edge content
delivered using the best of online
technology and traditional classroom
instruction, to enable effective
learning outcomes in a flexible,
collaborative learning environment.
All MIT Professional Education courses
offer certificates, and Continuing
Education Units (CEUs), some offer MIT
credit in addition.

MIT Professional Education is central
to MIT’s vision. It fulfills the mandate
to connect practitioner-oriented
education with industry, and to
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The Institute is committed to
generating, disseminating, and
preserving knowledge, and to working
with others to apply this knowledge for

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incorporate industry feedback and the benefit of humankind.
knowledge into MIT education
and research.

Bhaskar Pant
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Executive Director of
MIT Professional Education
MIT Professional Education offers students not only a
world-class technical education but also the expertise
and increasingly essential human skills to convert that
knowledge into real-world, adaptable solutions that
benefit all of humankind.

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Why should you pursue
an MIT Professional
Education Online Course?

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01 • To fulfill your reskilling and
upskilling needs in this fast-
changing environment.

02 • To master the technical and

human skills necessary for
effective leadership.

03 • To learn proactively with our

hands-on methodology and
real case applications.

04 • To explore the latest knowledge

with MIT Faculty, leaders in
their respective areas.

05 • To build a solid network with

professionals from diverse
fields and nationalities.

Register

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The Beyond
Online
Methodology

MIT Professional Education is
revolutionizing the digital learning
experience. In fact, we are no longer
talking about online-only, but rather an
interactive and collaborative learning
experience that’s digitally powered: a
Beyond Online experience.
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That is because not only will you have
access to one of the most innovative
e-learning platforms that utilizes the
latest technology, you’ll also have
an opportunity to meet and work
with some of the world’s leading
subject matter experts in the fields of
technology.

With MIT Professional 1. Attend international workshops and live webinars

Education, you’ll have 2. Collaborate and engage with world-renowned
an opportunity to: MIT faculty
3. Learn from external facilitators, guest speakers,
and subject matter experts from various industries
4. Meet and network with other course participants
from all around the world

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Meet and work
with some of
the world’s
leading subject
matter experts
in the fields of
technology

Even though our online courses are
open to hundreds of participants, each
cohort is capped at 50 participants.
By connecting digitally and working in
much smaller groups with colleagues
from around the globe, you’ll get the
feeling of a personalized learning
experience, as if you were in the
same classroom.
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We believe in practical applications
for implementing what participants
learn. That’s why at MIT Professional
Education, we give participants the
tools to make their experience as
fulfilling as possible:

Self-assessment

Modular learning Guided discussion forums

Case applications Weekly projects

Share practices with Additional resources

your cohort (videos, readings, etc.)

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Benefits
of joining the Community

MIT Professional Education offers a number of benefits for participants who

successfully complete this course:

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01 • 15% discount for MIT Professional Education
online courses and short-duration in-person
courses.

02 • Access to the virtual campus for six months

after completing the course.

03 • Exclusive announcements of new courses,

programs, and events.

04 • Unlimited refresher resources and access to

webinars.

05 • Invitation to the “MIT Professional Education”

LinkedIn group, exclusively for alumni.

06 • Networking opportunities with other MIT

Professional Education alumni.

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Courses

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as they aspire to provide their professionals with the ongoing education critical
for success in today’s competitive environment. That’s why we offer plans for
companies who wish to train their professionals with us.

Which Corporate Standard courses

Teams or groups of at least
Course best suits
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Custom courses
Custom-made to meet
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For more information on our

Corporate Courses, please contact us
at: professionalprograms@mit.edu

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The 91%
experience Of our Professional Alumni consider
it important or very important to

in numbers obtain a Certificate issued by MIT

Professional Education.

94%
Of our Professional Alumni
would go through another MIT
Professional Education training.
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92%
Of our Professional Alumni
significantly, or outstandingly,
value their experience with us.

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Testimonials

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Nathan McDaniel
Director Software Development - AMD

This course has been a great resource for continuing to learn about innovation, and
teaches some creative techniques which could also be used for executing better with
existing products or services. I highly recommend this course!

“ Pradeep Sharma
Director, TTEC

It’s fascinating how detailed you

can get in identifying a problem
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Andy Jones
Managing director, Avalem Ltd

This exellent course is a structured

and building a solution based on
a hunch. Identified some of the
mistakes that I have done in life will
help me in the future for sure.
way of mentally approaching and
evaulating innovation. It equips
you to think critically and creatively
about the situation you perceive, to
recognize and deal with innovation
problems early on in the process,
and to remove uncertainties.

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