Ultimate ‘Digital Transformation’ Professional Development Program
It’s time to rethink the workplace of the future! Digital transformation is a necessary disruption that transforms a business’s products, services and processes to deliver value to customers and other stakeholders.
It’s a rethinking of how a business uses technology, employees and processes to fundamentally improve business performance, which often involves replacing time-consuming, manual methods with innovative digital alternatives. It can also be as simple as upgrading older digital technology with their cutting-edge counterparts.
So, if you want to lead the charge in the digital revolution – the Ultimate Professional Development Program (Digital Transformation) is for you!
Learn More About Digital Transformation
Like a lot of technical careers, working in digital transformation isn’t about collecting university degrees, but rather your ability to learn on the job and think outside the box.
There are many emerging new fields in digital transformation from The Internet of Things to digital forensics and big data, giving you the ability to pick and choose your own specialty!
The Ultimate Professional Development Portfolio
Ultimate ‘Digital Transformation’ Professional Development Program is an online course that will allow you to learn as much as you can about this fascinating field in a 12-month study period. *
In this professional development course, you will learn about agile methodologies, computational thinking, data analytics and decision-making, virtual collaboration and more with hundreds of hours to study – learn as little or as much as you like!
You will also learn about championing digital transformation in today’s tech-savvy world and the practical applications of virtual collaboration.
On completion of this course, you will have the ultimate professional development portfolio in digital transformation to pursue a career in this innovative and exciting industry.
Course Structure
Unit 1 - Agile Methodologies
- The essential role of the Agile product owner
- Agile principles and methodologies
- Agile project planning
- Agile project scheduling and monitoring
- Agile stakeholder engagement
- Innovating with lean product management
- Maximising value with A/B testing
- Cultivating enterprise Agile
- Testing assumptions
- Lean project management
- Agile transformation
- Building high-performing digital product teams
- Digital project management
- The journey to enterprise agility
- Transforming the way work gets done
- Agile practice guide
- Agile and effective leaders, teams and organisations
- Building Agile business through digital transformation
- Guide to analytic lifecycle management
- Lean driven innovation
- Agile for project managers
- Creating a lean culture
- Team roles at work
Unit 2 - Agile mindset and culture
- Developing and supporting an Agile mind-set
- Embracing and Agile culture for business growth
- Learning from failure
- Agile is not enough
- Agile mindset and culture
- Innovation and agility in the digital age
- How leaders beat the odds and survive
- How to survive and thrive in the age of digital disruption
- How reframing flexible working delivers competitive advantage
- How smart companies are transforming the way work gets done
- 10 rules for mastering disruption in recruiting and engaging employees
- A practical guide to successful digital transformation
- The future workplace experience, 10 rules for mastering disruption in recruiting and engaging employees
- Understanding the first generation of digital natives
- The lean leader
- Leading the Lean enterprise transformation
- Lean for the information age
Unit 3 - Big Data
- Organising business data with data modelling
- Turning social intelligence into actionable insight
- Harnessing the power of data science for business growth
- Making data-driven decisions
- Big data fundamentals
- Big data interpretation
- Killer marketing with big data
- Finding the quality in your data
- Being a responsible corporate digital citizen
- Frameworks of engagement
- Data science for business growth
- Technology and the blue economy
- Life after google: the fall of big data and the rise of the blockchain economy
- Monetising data: how to uplift your business
- Improving decision making through model-based management
- Big data, open data and data development
- Big data review
- Real-time strategy and business intelligence
- Big data management
- Information and society
- Streaming, sharing, stealing: big data and the future of entertainment
Unit 4 - Championing Digital Transformation
- Getting your pitch heard
- Leading your team through change
- Championing digital transformation
- The drama-free workplace and inspire a healthy culture
- How to architect your business for sustained success
- Creating a movement that drives transformational change
- Digital@scale: the playbook you need to transform your company
- CIOs and the digital transformation: a new leadership role
- Bridging the innovation gap
- Successful digital transformation
- Digital disruption: Unleashing the next wave of innovation
- Revolutionising customer engagement through continuous digital innovation
- Business model generation
Unit 5 - Computational thinking
- Reaching efficient solutions with computational thinking
- Growing value through algorithmic business
- Computational thinking
- Computational thinking: MIT press essential knowledge series
- Super minds: the surprising power of people and computers thinking together
- Computational and cognitive thinking
- Computational modelling for decision processes
- Solving complex decision problems
- Cognition beyond the brain
- An introduction to mathematical cognition
- How business analytics can turn data into profitable insight
- Harnessing your brain’s power to adapt and change your life
- Applied minds: how engineers think
- Evidence-based guidelines to manage cognitive load
- Cognitive methods for training and performance improvement
- Working minds: a practitioner’s guide to cognitive task analysis
Unit 6 - Continuous Learning
- Cultivating a passion for learning
- Developing a growth mind-set
- Keeping your skillset current in the digital economy
- How to build a learning mindset
- How to drive a continuous learning culture
- Barriers to a continuous learning culture
- Changing your inner dialogue
- Passion for learning
- Growth mind-set
- Meaningful training
- Lifelong learning
- Building a culture of continuous employee development
- Culture of continuous learning
- The best leaders are great teachers: (Part 1 and 2)
- Learning and development: a practical introduction
- Sustaining a resilient learning organisation
- Business education in the digital age
- Learning for organisation development
- Developing employees to love to learn and promoting learning at work
- Using science to build a leading-edge learning organisation
- 7 practices for sustaining a resilient learning organisation
- The art and practice of the learning organisation
- Continuous education will keep us competitive in the global knowledge economy
- How to create a continuous learning culture
Unit 7 - Cross-Functional Collaboration
- Cultivating cross-functional team collaboration
- Enabling business-IT collaboration and strategic alignment
- Achieving digital dexterity
- Building innovation cultures and leaders
- Strategies for management technical teams
- Business-IT collaboration and strategic alignment
- Business leadership, technology and success in the digital age
- Succeeding with senior management: getting the right support at the right time for your project
- 7 principles of business transformation through functional integration
- Cross functional productivity improvement
- IT-driven business models: global case studies in transformation
- Cross functional teams: working with allies, enemies and other strangers
- The basics of process mapping
Unit 8 - Data and Analytics Literacy
- Data and analytics literacy
- Thinking and acting like a data scientist
- Working with your data creators to achieve greater results
- Grasping the key concepts in data science
- What is quality data and what makes data fit for purpose
- What do data scientists do and what make a great data scientist?
- Improving quality of your data
- Managing data and technology separately
- Becoming data drive
- The hidden data factory
- Startling facts about data
- Are you contributing to the data quality problem
- I love data provocateurs
- Embrace the data revolution
- The Friday afternoon measurement
- Stewarding a data-driven culture
- Data-driven decision making
- Translate data to persuade your audience
- Designing your analytics system
- Strategy for analytics
- Three skills of data-driven executives
- Data analytics: concepts, techniques and applications
- How to profit from a world of big data, analytics and the internet of things
- Data visualisation and statistical literacy for open and big data
- How to improve customer acquisition, customer retention and fraud detection and prevention
- Making sense of data with analytics
- How anyone can use business analytics to turn data not profitable insight
- Digital literacy for dummies
- Big data analytics: turning big data into big money
Unit 9 - Data Analytics at Work
- Using analytics to improve customer engagement
- Review on data analytics at work
- Managerial perspectives on intelligent big data analytics
- Data professionals at work
- Master the fundamentals of working with data and supercharge your career
- Big data at work: dispelling the myths, uncovering the opportunities
- Big data analytics: a practical guide for managers
- Big data in practice: How 45 successful companies used big data analytics to deliver extraordinary results
- Big data made easy: a working guide to the complete Hadoop toolset
- Guerrilla analytics: a practical approach to working with data.
- Analytics at work: smarter decisions, better results
Unit 10 - Data-Driven Decision Making
- Framing opportunities for effective data-driven decision making
- Working with data for effective decision making
- Guiding the analysis for effective data-driven decision making
- Motivating action with a compelling and data-driven story
- Preparing impactful presentations that drive decision makers to action
- Positioning powerful messages to enable action
- Data-driven decision making
- A guide for non-technical executives, managers and founders
- A practitioner’s guide to business analytics
- Data quality and its impacts on decision-making
- Big data: using SMART big data, analytics and metrics
- Data-driven business decisions
- Data mining and statistics for decision making
- Web analytics: using data to make smart business decisions
Unit 11 - Data Visualisation
- Exploring data visualisation
- 3D printing: The MIT press essential knowledge series
- Harnessing data and AI to reinvent customer engagement
- A guide to building the technology stack for turning data lakes into business assets
- Data analysis, visualisation and modelling for the data scientist
- The visual imperative: creating a visual culture of data discovery
- The visual organisation: data visualisation, big data and the quest for better decisions
- Cool infographics: effective communication with data visualisation and design
- Data points: visualisation that means something
Unit 12 - Design Thinking Methodologies
- Design thinking for innovation: stakeholder engagement
- Design thinking for innovation: defining opportunities
- Design thinking for innovation: Prototyping and testing
- Design thinking methodology
- Using narratives to forge emotional connections
- Design connection creates value
- Design can boost user experience
- Essential elements of great design
- Trust matters
- Aligning strategy and design
- Design profits
- Challenges in creating great design
- What is design?
- Four elements of dynamic work design
- Dynamic work design
- The fundamentals of the design process
- The importance of giving input on design
- Building internal design capabilities
- How design creates value for businesses
- Mistakes when designing software products
- Biggest mistakes when building software products
- How to harness the power of design
- What is design thinking?
- Design’s greatest superpower
- Great design starts with customers
- Design is teachable
- Principles of design
- Everyone is a designer
- The design thinking playbook
- Design thinking research
- Designing for growth
- Users workarounds reveal true behaviours
- Selecting the best idea
- Design thinking and problem of fixation
- Overcome challenges with design thinking
- Encoding failure: an obstacle to design thinking
- Five stages of design thinking
- How design thinking transforms organisation and inspires innovation
- Designing for growth: a designing thinking tool kit for managers
- Service design and delivery
- Design thinking for strategic innovation
- Why thinking is the next competitive advantage
Unit 13 - Designing Digital Experiences
- Exploring the relationship between U/UX design
- Building a culture of design thinking
- Exploring customer journey mapping
- Achieving customer-centric design with user personas
- B2B customer experience: a practical guide to delivering exceptional CX
- Customer-driven transformation: how being design-led helps companies get the right services to market
- Transforming your organisation to value customer time
- The driver in the driverless car
- How to build winning stores in a digital world
- Improve your net promoter score
- Objectives and key results
- Tracking progress
- Project goals that deliver
- Experimentation for outcomes
- Getting specific with goal setting
- Agility with outcomes
- A guide to developing next generation enterprise applications
- Designing digital experiences
- Aligning UX design with use psychology
- Customer obsessed: a whole company approach to delivering exceptional customer experiences
- Universal UX design: Building multicultural user experience
- Jobs to be done: a roadmap for customer-centred innovation
- Successful user experience: strategies and roadmaps
- How to gain insight into your customer expectations, align your marketing strategies and win more business.
- Customer-centric strategy for enduring growth
- Personas: User-focused design
- Getting stakeholder buy-in for user experience research projects
- A practical guide for creating useful UX documentation
- Smashing UX design: foundations for designing online user experiences
- The essential person lifecycle: your guide to building and using personas
Unit 14 - Digital Automation
- Implementing an automation software strategy
- Exploring business process automation
- Enhancing the customer experience with HCI
- Business process automation
- Supercharg3D: How 3D printing will drive your supply chain
- High performance through business process management
- Rise of the robots: technology and the threat of a jobless future
- Fundamentals of business process management’
- Introduction to software quality
- Strategy and business process management
- A pragmatic guide to business process modelling
- More Joel on software
Unit 15 - Digital Transformation Strategy
- Best practices for digital transformation
- Rethinking business models to enable digital transformation
- Harnessing the benefits of platform as a service
- Knowing when to take strategic risks
- Digital transformation
- The technology fallacy
- Build a next-generation digital workplace
- CIO’s and the digital transformation
- Chasing digital: a playbook for the economy
- Digital transformation: embracing new technologies
- How digitisation disrupts existing business models
- The importance of CIO leadership
- Sources of competitive advantage for the digital economy
- How companies can become future ready companies
- How boards must respond to digital disruption
- Strategies to create more digitally savvy boards
- Business models for the digital era
- Managing in a digital business environment
- Making data analysis work for you
- Building the digital enterprise
- The future of the workplace
- Artificial intelligence
- Dual transformation
- Adaptive space
- The ethics of analytics
- The limitations of amplifying analytics
- Safeguarding IoT-enabled devices from attack
- The need for greater algorithmic transparency
- The error of using AI to expediate bad legacy processes
- Rethinking AI: upfront abouts Bots
- Making digital platforms work
- Why digital transformations fail
- Plato and the nerd
- Bits to bitcoin
- See sooner, act faster
- The AI advantage
- The technology fallacy
- How to go digital
- Digital transformation is not about technology
- How to digitally transform your organisation
- Digital transformation: more about will than skill
- Digital transformation is a talent retention issue
- False assumptions about digital leadership
- Absurdly long-term strategic planning
- Where do you start with digital transformation
- Protect against technology vulnerabilities
- Analytics fundamentals for managers
- Data and analytics: talent and techniques
- Data and analytics: targets
- Leadership in an analytical culture
- Enterprisewide approach to analytics
- Data analytics and technology
- Data and analytics: The DELTA plus framework
- The critical ingredient in digital transformation
- Digital disciplines
- Innovation or transformation
- Navigating the digital transformation
- Chasing digital: a playbook for the new economy
- Adaptive space
- The seven principles of digital business strategy
- Seeing digital: Careers of the 2020s
- Digital transformation
- The innovation-friendly organisation
- Value in a digital world
- The Q-loop
- The digital transformation playbook
- Building the digital enterprise
- Digital disruption
- The business model innovation factory
- The digital innovation playbook
Unit 16 - Disruptive Technologies
- Using robots and RPA in the workplace
- Preparing for the additive manufacturing revolution
- Transforming the workplace using AI
- Creating engagement with virtually reality
- Getting started with machine learning
- How blockchain technology is transforming businesses
- Connecting with the internet of things
- Effective edge computing
- Using augmented reality for organising gains
- Applying virtual assistant technology
- The future of work
- Jobs that AI will create
- Reshaping business with AI
- AI in business gets real
- What to do when machines do everything
- How advances in automotive technology will disrupt life
- Make it, wear it
- Turning the tables on digital disruptors
- AI in practice
- Turning tables on digital disruptors
- The crypto craze
- Harnessing AI and maintaining a competitive edge
- Implications of 3D printing on society
- Pan-industrial companies and spheres of influence
- 3D printing is changing the competition
- 3D printing platforms
- Implications of 3D printing
- Versatility of 3D printing
- What is 3D printing
- 3D printing is here
- The cloud adoption playbook
- Make it, wear it
- The bitcoin standard
- Business strategy in the AI economy
- Review on robotics
- Review on IoT
- Review on blockchain
- Review on AI
- Review on Additive manufacturing 3D printing
- Cognitive computing
- Leading through disruption
- The business blockchain
- Bitcoin and cryptocurrency
- Blockchain: from concept to execution
- Augmented reality and virtual reality
- The B3 perspective
- Autonomy and artificial intelligence
- Intelligent cars and the road ahead
- The internet of things
- Machine learning
- The disruption dilemma
- How science is redefining humanity
- Robot futures
- The business blockchain
- Blockchain basics
- New business models
- Driving disruption and accelerating transformation
- Rethinking macroeconomic policy
- Social machines
- Digital disciplines
- Beginning design for 3D printing
- The future smart connected life and business
- Understanding augmented reality
- Designing the internet of things
- The new world of 3D printing
- Emerging technologies
Unit 17 - Infrastructure and Architecture
- Microservice architecture
- Embracing the cloud for efficiency
- Effective mobile App strategy
- Network security threats
- Infrastructure and architecture
- Inventing the cloud century
- Cyber security
- Digital resilience
- Unlocking the mobile economy
- Cloud computing
- Network and data security for non-engineers
- Protecting your digital business
- Harnessing the potential of cloud computing
- Digital security in a networked world
- iOs app development
- Android app development
- Models for social mobile cloud
- The art of the App store
Unit 18 - Serving Digital Customers
- Understanding the digital customer
- Optimising the customer experience
- Serving digital customers with omnichannel
- Serving digital customers
- Transforming customer relationships
- Managing digital supply chains
- Effectively blending social business strategy
- Keeping pace with rapidly changing behaviours
- Clickology: online shopping
- CRM strategies and relationships
- Customer-centric marketing
- How to win customers in a digital age
- Delivering positive experiences to your customers
- Capturing customers and brand loyalty
Unit 19 - Social Media Marketing
- Social media for persuasive communication
- Reaching customers digitally
- Helping customers find you
- Managing corporate reputation online
- Effective digital community management
- Marketing in the age of automation
- Marketing content and strategies
- Storytelling about your brand
- Humanising your brand
- Moving from traditional to digital marketing
- Influencer marketing
- Effective ways to increase Facebook ROI
- Generating more leads with messenger automation
- How to optimise social media conversations
- Increasing Facebook engagement with contests
- Facebook watch parties
- Engaged Facebook business groups
- Facebook live video broadcasts
- Facebook and Instagram stories
- Facebook video content success tips
- A successful Facebook business page
- Social media brand presence
- Social media strategy and tactics for leaders
- Social media marketing review
- Customer Engagement marketing
- Customer experience management rebooted
- The social media bible
- Creating memorable content
- Disruptive marketing
- Understanding digital marketing
- Creating memorable content
- Social media rules of engagement
- Embracing the micromedia mindset
- Managing online reputation
- Digital relevance
- Brand media strategy
- Digital brand strategy
- The digital marketer
- Harnessing the power of social
- Klout, social scoring and influence marketing
- Engaging more customers by integrating SEO
- Teaching your business to market itself
Unit 20 - Virtual Collaboration
- Exploring virtual collaboration
- Establishing effective virtual team
- Facing virtual team challenges
- Contributing as a virtual team member
- Virtual collaboration
- Virtual leadership
- Successful virtual classrooms
- Collaboration tools for PM
- Virtual leadership
- 5 roles of a master herder
- Remote: office not required
- Creative conspiracy
- Working at a distance
- Trust in virtual teams
- Uniting the virtual workforce
- Virtual coach, virtual mentor
- Where is the world is my team?
- High performance virtual teams
- Building strong, personal, professional virtual teams
Assessment
Assessment
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.
Course FAQs
Why Choose Australian Online Courses?
- Professional development that is widely recognised and respected;
- Improve your employment opportunities;
- Study online, anywhere via our elearning system;
- 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.
How long will it take to complete this course?
The study hours for this course vary as you can study as little or as much as you like over the twelve (12) month enrolment period. Extensions available upon application (fees apply).
s. We offer twelve (12) months’ access, with extensions available upon application (fees apply).
Can I purchase optional printed materials?
While printed materials are not available for purchase, transcripts of video lectures and other learning resources are available for printing via our elearning system.
When can I start this course?
You can start within 60 minutes during business hours when you enrol and pay in full with a credit card!
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Will I receive a certificate upon completion of this course?
Yes! You will receive a Certificate of Attainment upon successful completion of your assessment.
Do I need to attend classes or undertake any work placements?
No. All courses are delivered online via our e-learning system and there are no work placement requirements in this course.
What support can I expect from Australian Online Courses?
Unlimited tutor support is available throughout your studies via email during business hours Monday to Friday. Our Administrative team are available Monday to Friday via email, live chat and telephone.
I am an international student. Can I enrol into this course?
Yes! We accept enrolments from individuals both within Australia and internationally; location is no barrier to entry into our programs.
Career Pathways
Future growth
Strong
Unemployment
Low
The Ultimate Professional Development program for those who are wanting a wide variety of professional development.