Improve your skills and knowledge of digital transformation and how to manage the process of technological change. Build skills for the future work landscap. In this course from the Media Design School, you’ll explore the future of the work landscape and how technology continues to redefine it through the process of digital transformation.
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You’ll cover key topics, themes, concepts, and vocabulary relating to the overall notion of digital transformation in order to keep your skills fresh and learn new approaches to projects.
Discover the opportunities and risks of artificial intelligence (AI)
What makes technology artificially intelligent? This course will help you answer that question, while also looking at the many uses of AI. You’ll also explore the impacts, opportunities, and risks that this technology could have on business and society.
Then you’ll learn about data science, its applications, and the tools that are widely used across the industry. With data being a precious commodity in the modern business world, you’ll also investigate the current challenges that affect the industry.
Explore the key characteristics and uses of cloud computing
As more businesses look to reduce costs, improve security, and enable remote working, cloud computing is becoming increasingly popular.
This course will take you through the key concepts, terminology, and characteristics of cloud computing using popular services, such as AWS, Azure, and Google, as examples.
Learn the design thinking process and agile methodology
Design thinking, a solution-based approach to solving complex problems, has been adopted by many industries due to its effective and efficient methodology.
You’ll examine the components of each step in the design thinking process before applying the methodology to solve a real-world problem. To complement this process, you’ll also explore agile project management, learning its approaches, methodologies, and benefits.
What topics will you cover?
- Artificial Intelligence
- Data Science
- Cloud Computing
- User Experience Design
- Design Thinking
- Agile
Learning on this course
You can take this self-guided course and learn at your own pace. On every step of the course you can meet other learners, share your ideas and join in with active discussions in the comments.
What will you achieve?
By the end of the course, you‘ll be able to...
- Apply what you have learned in this course to your future work.
- Contribute to your overall understanding of a Digital Transformation process
- Describe artificial intelligence and determine what makes technology artificially intelligent
- Identify current and potential future uses of artificial intelligence and explore the impacts, opportunities and risks of these on business and society.
Who is the course for?
This course is designed for anyone looking to enhance their career by learning how to approach digital transformation in their workplace. It will be useful to working professionals in any sector as digital transformation has a broad impact across all industries.
