Deadline: 3-Oct-22
Ashoka has launched its Social Intrapreneurship for Innovation in Health Course, a six-week online, facilitated, and interactive course, focused on changemaker talent development, skill-building, and real-life application. The training is free of charge, but requires a time commitment of two hours minimum per week.
Ashoka, one of the world’s largest networks of social entrepreneurs and Boehringer Ingelheim, a world-leading health company, have come together to create the six-week online course: Social Intrapreneurship for Innovation in Health. This course is part of the global “Making More Health” initiative to explore innovative pathways to improve access to healthcare for people, animals, and communities around the world. In this course, you will connect with a global community of health professionals from across the private, public, and nonprofit sectors and convene to learn intrapreneurial strategies for creating social and business impact in the health and wellness space.
Course Modules
- Module 1: The Business Case for Social Intrapreneurship Module 1 explores the concept and definition of social intrapreneurship and investigates the business case for fostering intrapreneurship within institutions. Participants are exposed to real world examples and applications to the health sector.
- Module 2: Intrapreneurial Challenges & Opportunities Module 2 focuses on defining and understanding the challenges surrounding social intrapreneurship through market research and patient needs. They review examples of these challenges, paying attention to communicating and framing the problem in a compelling and accessible way.
- Module 3: Strategies for Advancing Social Innovation Within Your Institution Social innovation allows businesses to spark the next generation of sustainable solutions. New business models and ideas rise out of close collaboration with nontraditional partners, beginning with social entrepreneurs. Module 3 brings out real world examples of products, services, or business models created through social innovation and collaboration.
- Module 4: Co-Creation Part I: Leveraging on Shared Value Cross-sector collaborations create solutions for society’s most pressing social, cultural, and environmental challenges. Looking to examples that have reshaped global industries, in Module 4 they connect the dots between game-changing innovations and social entrepreneurs to learn how they have influenced new systems, mindsets, and ways of working through co-creation.
- Module 5: Co-Creation Part II: Idea Development and Pitching Pitching and developing ideas are important steps for social intrapreneurs during the early stages of their innovation. This module will review fundamentals of both, offer best practices, and look at real case studies.
- Module 6: Final Review and Wrap-up The final module of the course is an exercise in reflection and an opportunity to review all the content covered to date. It also enables participants to crystallize the professional connections they made throughout the course and discuss concepts already explored.
Course Development
- As the first and largest global network of social entrepreneurs, Ashoka understands how leading changemakers across sectors are tackling problems and reimagining systems for the common good. This course is part of the Making More Health initiative, a partnership between Ashoka and Boehringer Ingelheim.
- Making More Health is a global initiative that aims to create a healthier world for individuals, animals, and their communities. By supporting social intra/entrepreneurs and innovation, MMH generates social impact, helps identify creative business models, and benefits employees, organizations, and society.
- Changemakers is an Ashoka program that uses the power of digital technology to equip everyone to play a role in positive change. Ashoka launchs initiatives in partnership with companies and foundations, such as digital innovation challenges and course, to empower individuals with the tools, resources, and network to succeed as agents of change in their communities and work environments. Changemakers developed and produces this course.
Benefits
In this course, participants will
- Prepare to lead social and business impact within their institution.
- Gain skills and strategies to garnerinternal and external supportfor new ideas.
- Learn how to collaborate and advance innovation in a bureaucratic setting.
- Develop intrapreneurial strategies for cross-sector collaboration, co-creation, and projectprototyping.
- Connect with a network of intrapreneurs and innovators to exchange ideas and receive ongoing feedback and supportfortheirinitiatives.
- Engage with Ashoka’s network via Ashoka Fellow case studies, learning opportunities, and experts in social intrapreneurship and entrepreneurship around the world.
For more information, visit https://www.ashoka.org/es-mx/program/social-intrapreneurship-innovation-health-course