Certificate of Disruptive Technologies

Unit 1 – Best practices for digital transformation

• Implementing a digital transformation
• Transforming organisational operations
• Transforming a business model
• Transforming customer experiences
• Leadership roles in digital transformation
• Avoiding common mistakes
• Change management
• Resilience and flexibility during change
• Disruption threats

Unit 2 – Harnessing the benefits of platform as a service

• Benefits of PaaS to reduce cost
• Types of PaaS deployment options
• Effective ways to use PaaS
• When PaaS is not the ideal option
• Current trends in PaaS application
• Application platform as a service (aPaaS)
• Benefits of cloud computing and PaaS
• Deployment options
• Implementing PaaS

Unit 3 – Leading your team through change

• Leading change
• Transition processes that facilitate change.
• Sources of employee resistance
• Change resistance to actions for dealing with them
• Change obstacles in an organisation
• Overcoming obstacles to change
• How to overcome information-based roots of inertia
• Overcoming action-related employee inertia
• Appropriate ways to communicate change
• Effectively leading change in your organisation

Unit 4 – Getting your pitch heard

• Attributes of good ideas
• Elements that hinder a successful pitch
• Effective verbal communication
• Convincing and confident presentations
• Target audience
• Elements of a convincing pitch
• Maximising the impact of your pitch

Unit 5 – Rethinking business models to enable digital transformation

• Business model innovation
• Harvesting future opportunities
• Ensuring an actionable digital transformation
• Emerging new business models
• Assessing current business models
• Remaining competitive in the digital world
• Digital business models
• Evolving current models
• Encouraging innovation

Unit 6 – Harnessing the benefits of platform as a service

• Benefits of PaaS to your organisation
• Reducing costs while increasing the business’s flexibility
• Types of PaaS deployment options
• Effective ways to use PaaS
• Situations where PaaS is not the ideal option
• Current trends in PaaS application
• Implementing PaaS in your organisation.

Unit 7 – Knowing when to take strategic risks

• Types of business risk
• Strategic risk taking and risk aversion
• Why risk-taking is necessary
• Developing a risk plan
• Fostering strategic risk-taking
• Assessing a threat
• Evaluating impact of risk
• Competing in digitally transformed markets

Unit 8 – Using robots and RPA in the workplace

• Characteristics of a robot
• Robots and employees working well together to succeed
• Ways to improve how employees work with robots
• Considerations for using physical robots
• Types of physical robots
• Benefits and risks of using software robots
• Implementing robotic process automation
• Optimising the human-robot relationship.

Unit 9 – Applying virtual assistant technology

• Benefits of using VA technology
• Enabling artificial intelligence to assist your workforce
• How VA technology can enhance the overall business experience
• Implementing and deploying VA technology
• Challenges when introducing VA technology
• Overcoming challenges
• Current and future trend
• Smart growth and future-proofing strategies

Unit 10 – Connecting with the internet of things

• Purpose and ideas behind IoT
• Applications of IoT that address key areas of concern
• Key data management challenges
• Key business areas where IoT can generate value
• Approaches to generate revenue from IoT
• Ways that IoT benefits customer relationships
• How IoT has changed business

Unit 11 – Creating engagement with virtual reality

• Describing virtual reality
• Business benefits of virtual reality
• Factors that affect the virtual reality participant’s sense of presence
• Levels of immersion
• Equipment for a mobile virtual reality experience
• Equipment for a high-powered virtual reality experience

Unit 12 – Effective edge computing

• Business advantages of using edge computing
• Types of edge computing
• Effective ways to use edge computing
• Key edge computing challenges
• Comprehensive edge computing strategies
• Reliable and resilient edge computing implementation
• reduce costs and latency issues
• Improving data management and data warehousing
• Enhance business continuity

Unit 13 – Getting started with machine learning

• Description of machine learning
• Benefits of machine learning
• Considerations for using machine learning
• Identifying opportunities for machine learning
• Determining the feasibility of machine learning opportunities
• Basic steps of the machine learning process
• Machine learning can provide a competitive edge
• Transforming the ways businesses operate

Unit 14 – How blockchain technology is transforming businesses

• How transactions take place
• Statements that describe how blockchain technology works
• Public and private blockchains
• Smart contracts – how they enable innovative applications
• How blockchain technology is being used in business today
• Challenges of widespread adoption of blockchain technology

Unit 15 – Preparing for the additive manufacturing revolution

• Characteristics of additive manufacturing
• Seven main techniques used in additive manufacturing
• Applications for additive manufacturing
• Advantages offered by additive manufacturing
• Challenges that lie ahead for additive manufacturing
• Lessons learned

Unit 16 – Transforming the workplace using artificial intelligence

• Cognitive technologies of artificial intelligence
• Three main categories of applications of AI
• Identifying opportunities for AI in your business
• Tasks that might benefit from an AI application
• Ethical and moral considerations associated with AI
• Risks associated with adoption of AI as mainstream technology

Unit 17 – Using augmented reality for organisational gains

• Characteristics of augmented reality
• Technical components of augmented reality
• Types of augmented reality
• Using augmented reality to increase business value
• Planning for AR implementation
• Current augmented reality trends

When you study with Australian Online Courses, you will be assessed using a competency-based training method.

Competency-based training focuses on the achievement of skills and knowledge against set criteria to ensure your competency is industry relevant. You will not be benchmarked against other students.

If you do not achieve a competency result on your first attempt, you have two more attempts to pass your assessment. So, you have three attempts in total to obtain a competency result.

In this way, you can complete your course in your own time and at your own pace with the assistance of unlimited tutor support.

In this course, you will be assessed via multiple-choice questions to determine your mastery of details and specific knowledge gained during your studies to achieve a ‘competent’ or ‘not yet competent’ result.

Benefits of Multiple-Choice Assessments

• Appropriate for assessing students’ mastery of details and specific knowledge.
• Can be used to assess both simple knowledge and complex concepts.
• Questions can be answered quickly to accurately assess a students’ mastery of many topics relatively quickly.
• Assessment can be quickly and reliably scored to achieve a ‘competent’ or ‘not yet competent’ result.
• As the answers are visible, multiple-choice questions offer the opportunity for the continuation of the learning process, offering educational value.

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• High-quality professional development programs written by industry experts;
• No entry requirements;
• All course materials provided online – no textbooks to buy;
• Unlimited tutor support;
• Easy to understand course content;
• We offer twelve (12) months’ access, with extensions available upon application (fees apply);
• Certificate of Attainment/Completion issued for your CV (hard copy provided); and
• Course may be tax deductible; see your tax advisor.

The approximate study hours for this course is 10 hours. We offer twelve (12) months’ access, with extensions available upon application (fees apply).

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