Cloud and Mobile
Zynga: Filling gaps with mobile
EXECUTIVE EDUCATION
EXECUTIVE EDUCATION
25 March 2021
9 weeks, online
4–6 hours per week
Special pricing up to 20% discount is available if you enrol with your colleagues. Please send an email to group-enrollments@emeritus.org for more information.
Imperial Digital Transformation is an online programme brought to you by Executive Education at Imperial College Business School. The eight-week (excluding orientation) programme combines live online teaching sessions and video lectures with interactive activities and assignments to enable high-impact learning. As a participant you will:
The internet of things (IoT) will grow to 25 billion connected things by 2021, creating massive volumes of data, and an organisation’s ability to derive meaning from it will be essential to their success.
Worldwide spending on blockchain is predicted to grow to $15.9 billion by 2023.
Nearly one-third of enterprises are investing up to $50 million in automation, including AI, machine learning, cognitive computing and robotic process automation.
This programme offers a non-technical, broad overview of new technologies that are impacting companies across every industry. Digital transformation is an essential topic for professionals including:
As a participant, you will learn to master game-changing technologies that are driving digital transformation and use them to implement digital transformation across your organisation. No matter where your organisation is in your transformation journey, you’ll walk away with actionable insights and a solid strategy to successfully move your organisation forward.
As a participant in this programme, you will learn to master the technologies that are driving transformation, and develop your own strategy and put them to work in your business.
Describe what the cloud is and how it works, evaluate when it makes sense to store data in the cloud vs on the "edge", assess the importance of mobile devices in your business, analyse to what extent 5G will change how value is delivered in business
Describe the Internet of Things and its functions, compare and contrast the Internet of Things and Industry 4.0, analyse the benefits and risks of IoT to business, analyse the potential of IoT in creating new business innovations
Distinguish between the roles of data science and data engineering, analyse the patterns of change in price and performance of key digital technologies, interpret and create data visualisations and make related recommendations, devise a big data dashboard that would be useful to an organisation's operations
Compare successes and failures of AI, suggest new areas of innovation for existing digital capabilities, such as voice recognition, identify opportunities for new technologies to disrupt existing industries, debate the impact that AI and automation will have on jobs
Identify the components of a financial ledger, compare sources and examples of fraudulent financial activities, discuss how blockchain enables trust, analyse the utilisation and success of blockchain applications in a range of financial sectors, suggest technology innovations that could impact subsectors in financial services
Identify sources of digital value, compare and contrast sources of value in a digital vs "offline" world, recommend steps to digitise a traditional customer journey, evaluate digital transformations for customer value, identify service design opportunities in an organisation
Identify efficiency problems that can be solved through digital transformation, analyse the role of digital transformation in achieving operational efficiency, generate ideas for improving an organisation's efficiency through the use of digital tools, suggest opportunities for strategic innovation in organisations that are using digital solutions, compare and contrast effective change management strategies
Discuss the business value of privacy and security, identify types of organisational data that should be protected, generate examples of security breaches that might adversely affect a brand, suggest cyber security threats that could have a major impact on an organisation, define the critical roles related to data governance
Describe what the cloud is and how it works, evaluate when it makes sense to store data in the cloud vs on the "edge", assess the importance of mobile devices in your business, analyse to what extent 5G will change how value is delivered in business
Identify sources of digital value, compare and contrast sources of value in a digital vs "offline" world, recommend steps to digitise a traditional customer journey, evaluate digital transformations for customer value, identify service design opportunities in an organisation
Describe the Internet of Things and its functions, compare and contrast the Internet of Things and Industry 4.0, analyse the benefits and risks of IoT to business, analyse the potential of IoT in creating new business innovations
Identify efficiency problems that can be solved through digital transformation, analyse the role of digital transformation in achieving operational efficiency, generate ideas for improving an organisation's efficiency through the use of digital tools, suggest opportunities for strategic innovation in organisations that are using digital solutions, compare and contrast effective change management strategies
Distinguish between the roles of data science and data engineering, analyse the patterns of change in price and performance of key digital technologies, interpret and create data visualisations and make related recommendations, devise a big data dashboard that would be useful to an organisation's operations
Discuss the business value of privacy and security, identify types of organisational data that should be protected, generate examples of security breaches that might adversely affect a brand, suggest cyber security threats that could have a major impact on an organisation, define the critical roles related to data governance
Compare successes and failures of AI, suggest new areas of innovation for existing digital capabilities, such as voice recognition, identify opportunities for new technologies to disrupt existing industries, debate the impact that AI and automation will have on jobs
Identify the components of a financial ledger, compare sources and examples of fraudulent financial activities, discuss how blockchain enables trust, analyse the utilisation and success of blockchain applications in a range of financial sectors, suggest technology innovations that could impact subsectors in financial services
The case scenarios and industry examples featured throughout the programme provide a wide-ranging look at how companies, organisations, and governments are using technology to drive transformation.
Zynga: Filling gaps with mobile
LinkedIn: Devising digital solutions for service problems
Cemex: Automated digital communication through the use of sensors.
IBM Watson: Revealing algorithmic blas in technology solutions
Tesla: Leveraging opportunities for new technologies to disrupt existing industries
Ali Pay: Analysing the impact of technology applications on financial brands
L'Oréal: Using big data to predict the next “must have” beauty product
Cemex: Innovating in organisations that already use digital solutions.
Upon completion of the programme, participants will be awarded a verified Digital Certificate of Participation by Imperial College Business School Executive Education.
Imperial College Business School is collaborating with online education provider Emeritus to offer online programmes. This allows us to broaden access in a collaborative and innovative format that stays true to our distinctive methods of learning, content and outstanding quality.
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