Managing Research & Development

Managing Research & Development (9 hours). Innovation has become essential to every company's survival and well-being. Innovation takes many forms including product, process, and business model innovation. Individuals who understand and can manage innovation and creativity regarding product development have great career opportunities in R&D management in Colorado.

This R&D Management certificate provides proven concepts and tools for managing the creation and development of new products and processes, and the innovation process of strategy formation, portfolio development, and project execution in both hardware and software environments.

Benefits of our R&D Management Certificate program:

• Acquire "best practice" tools for improving R&D management.
• Learn leading-edge concepts to help create powerful R&D portfolios.
• Develop a sample R&D portfolio.
• Appreciate the universe of R&D and product development efforts - from project to company to the national level.

Objectives of our R&D Management certificate program:
Provide the students with an understanding of product development and the management of R&D organizations with emphasis on linkage to overall business strategy.

• EMEN 5300 Management of R&D (Fall)
  EMEN 5400 Principles of Product Management (Spring)
• -or- EMEN 5430 Software Product Management (Spring)
• EMEN 5030 Project Management Systems (Fall or Course Library in Spring, Summer)