Digital platforms and two-sided markets have quickly established themselves as a staple of modern business, presenting new opportunities and challenges alike for engineers, product managers, regulators, and entrepreneurs. However, there continues to be little discussion surrounding why some digital platforms help companies flourish where others have fallen short.
This comprehensive course provides up-to-date assessments, case studies, and important knowledge on issues that affect you and your organization — response organizations, cyber security, supply chain, crisis leadership, artificial intelligence, crisis communications, news media, social media, and all levels of government response — from the experts involved with these efforts. We also examine strategies for program, job, and career improvement. You will have the opportunity to interact with our lecturers and with your peers from industry, academia, and government. Participants can also practice what is learned: the course concludes with a highly interactive crisis simulation in which participants take active roles in a multiple event crisis, including a realistic news media briefing.
Graph analytics provides a valuable tool for modeling complex relationships and analyzing information. In this course, designed for technical professionals who work with large quantities of data, you will enhance your ability to extract useful insights from large and structured data sets to inform business decisions, accelerate scientific discoveries, increase business revenue, improve quality of service, detect fraudulent behavior, and/or defend against security threats.
Enhance your decision-making, project management, and leadership capabilities by acquiring the tools and knowledge you need to identify, understand, frame, scale, and prioritize solutions to your most pressing challenges. In this actionable 8-week online course, you’ll learn how to facilitate and lead highly effective, image results for transdisciplinary problem-solving teams and determine the best ways to acquire critical context for developing human-centered products, ventures, and services.
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Discover Applied Data Science Program: a comprehensive curriculum designed for professionals seeking to excel in data analysis, visualization, and machine learning. Gain hands-on experience & earn a prestigious certificate of completion by MIT Professional Education.
Reinforcement learning (RL), is enabling exciting advancements in self-driving vehicles, natural language processing, automated supply chain management, financial investment software, and more. In this three-day course, you will acquire the theoretical frameworks and practical tools you need to use RL to solve big problems for your organization.
In today’s highly competitive and volatile market, rapid innovation and mass customization offer a new form of competitive advantage—pushing organizations to implement strategies for designing and developing an entire family of products. In our eight-week Designing Product Families: From Strategy to Implementation course, you will explore how product architecture, platforms, and commonality can help you successfully deploy and manage a family of products.
Leaders in innovation are often the same individuals who become major players in global transformation. Our eight-week Leadership & Innovation program merges the development of leadership skills with the vision needed to address the innovation process within an organization. In this dynamic course, you will learn to lead from self-knowledge and creativity, and enhance your ability to build teams and organizations with a culture of innovation.
During times of uncertainty, one thing doesn’t change—your responsibility to provide value to your customers. Learn to build an innovative, resilient organization that can beat the odds amid difficult circumstances. In this three-day course, you’ll acquire the tools and frameworks you need to drive increased revenue for existing products, services, and customers, while simultaneously building new lines of business that position your organization for sustainable growth.
How do you solve important, large-scale challenges with evolving and contradictory constraints? In this 5-day course, transform your approach to large-scale problem solving, from multi-stakeholder engineering projects to the online spread of misinformation. Alongside engineers and leaders from diverse industries, you’ll explore actionable innovative frameworks for assessing, communicating, and implementing complex systems—and significantly increase your likelihood of success.