¿Qué es la innovación? Nuestras mentes están diseñadas para leer o escuchar esa palabra e imaginar un resultado final marcado por el éxito y la grandeza: el lanzamiento de un producto revolucionario, la cura para una enfermedad centenaria, la creación de robots programados para llevar a cabo operaciones manufactureras… Aunque estos “resultados finales” son ciertamente impresionantes, muestran que hay un defecto en nuestra forma de definir lo que es realmente “innovar” y en cómo creemos que se desarrollan las innovaciones.

Upon hearing the word “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 programmed 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.
Plataformas Digitais: um modelo de negócio em crescimento. As plataformas digitais e os mercados bilaterais se estabeleceram rapidamente como um fator fundamental nos modelos de negócios atuais, apresentando novos desafios e oportunidades para engenheiros, gerentes de produto, reguladores e empreendedores. Mas apesar desse desenvolvimento, uma questão continua em aberto: por que algumas plataformas digitais geram progresso e prosperidade e outras não?
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 9-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.

O objetivo do programa online “Sustentabilidade: Estratégias e Oportunidades para a Indústria, do MIT Professional Education, é capacitar profissionais de diferentes setores com a formação e as habilidades necessárias para melhorar a sustentabilidade em suas atividades. Os participantes conhecerão as ferramentas essenciais para transformar o conhecimento adquirido no programa em estratégias aplicáveis em suas empresas.