Online Course – Certified Professional Internship in Corporate Data Analytics from the University of Maryland, College Park

Leading the Digital Enterprise: Discovering New Ways to Improve Performance, Innovation, and Growth in the Digital Age.

Suggested by: Coursera (What is Coursera?)

Professional Certificate

Beginners Intermediate level Advanced involved

No prior knowledge required

Time to complete the course

7-day free trial

No unnecessary risks

Skills you will acquire in the course

  • Digital Transformation Management
  • Bug data analysis
  • Communication with stakeholders
  • Digital transformation

What you will learn in the course

Courses for which the course is suitable

  • Digital Project Manager
  • Data Strategy Manager
  • Customer Experience Manager
  • Digital Marketing Manager
  • Information Technology Manager
  • Organizational Change Manager
  • Digital Team Manager
  • Data Analyst
  • Digital Transformation Consultant
  • Business Development Manager

Internship – 4-part course series

This program helps you see your organization’s dynamic capabilities. Using the “Fitness Landscape” model, we help managers understand where they stand relative to other organizations and how they can change their dynamic capabilities to rise higher in the competitive landscape.

Dynamic capabilities

These “dynamic” capabilities include the social and digital aspects of how we work and the technologies that enable that work. As companies engage in big data and cloud computing strategies, the technologies are changing. To sustainably improve the customer experience and achieve the competitive advantage that the power of data promises, you need social enabling technologies and processes that can align with your data strategy.

Dynamic capability

The ability to change and deploy new capabilities within an organization by creating, extending, or modifying existing resources is a “dynamic capability.” With the speed of technological disruption, business leaders must enable their companies to adapt.

Data learning

We will learn how to discover data sources in your company and leverage structured and unstructured data to improve your entire business, from sourcing to marketing and distribution.

Lessons

These lessons will help you make the right choices about digital transformation so your organization can better fulfill its mission and delight customers. To get there, you must first understand the vision of a digital entrepreneur, what it looks like, how it works, and why it is so powerful in delivering results.

Hands-on Learning Project

Learn the following topics through a series of knowledge tests, quizzes, and a final exam:

  • vision
    – What does a digital entrepreneur look like? How does he operate?
  • road map
    – How do we get there? What is the path to change?
  • process
    – What can be done with the data? New processes? New values?
  • communication
    – How can we lead digital teams at scale?
  • culture
    – How to prepare the organization, employees and leadership for the optimization of digital technologies and processes?

Details of the courses that make up the specialization

Digital transformation with data analytics

Course 1

Duration: 8 hours

Course Details
What you’ll learn:
  • Every modern organization is a digital organization or will soon become digital.
  • Artificial intelligence, Google, Amazon, Facebook and Uber, and big data, have dramatically raised customer expectations and demand.
  • Organizations that specialize in using data will win in the mid-21st century economy.
  • The basic skills required include: data analysis, machine learning, data visualizations, data mining, predictive data analysis, and deep learning.
  • Organizations that fail to transform themselves to digital will follow the footsteps of Blockbuster or Borders Bookstore.

The organization that best utilizes the power of data to create a superior customer experience will prosper in the new business reality.

The question is, how does an organization make a digital transformation? There are so many digital technologies to choose from – too many options! And digital technologies are only part of creating a digital organization. Employees need to be trained in the new technologies, leaders need to learn how to use data to make strategic decisions, and the organization’s business processes need to be rebuilt. There are so many choices to make and the stakes have never been higher!

This course will provide you with a framework to help you successfully navigate the challenges of digital transformation. First, we will talk about how to leverage your organization’s dynamic capabilities to kickstart digital transformation. Second, we will use a fitness landscape to build a competitive digital business model. Finally, we will apply a strategic vision function to help develop your digital business model for the organization’s continued success.


Digital transformation with data analysis projects

Course 2

Duration: 8 hours

Course Details
What you’ll learn:
  • Every modern organization is a digital organization or will soon become digital.
  • Artificial intelligence, Google, Amazon, Facebook and Uber, and big data, have dramatically raised customer expectations and demand.
  • Organizations that specialize in using data will win in the mid-21st century economy.
  • The basic skills required include: data analysis, machine learning, data visualizations, data mining, predictive data analysis, and deep learning.
  • Organizations that fail to transform themselves to digital will follow the footsteps of Blockbuster or Borders Bookstore.

The organization that best utilizes the power of data to create a superior customer experience will prosper in the new business reality.

The question is, how does an organization make a digital transformation? There are so many digital technologies to choose from – too many options! And digital technologies are only part of creating a digital organization. Employees need to be trained in the new technologies, leaders need to learn how to use data to make strategic decisions, and the organization’s business processes need to be rebuilt. There are so many choices to make and the stakes have never been higher!

This course will provide you with a framework to help you successfully navigate the challenges of digital transformation. First, we will talk about how to leverage your organization’s dynamic capabilities to kickstart digital transformation. Second, we will use a fitness landscape to build a competitive digital business model. Finally, we will apply a strategic vision function to help develop your digital business model for the organization’s continued success.


Data-driven strategic decision making

Course 3

Duration: 9 hours

Course Details
What you’ll learn:
  • Every modern organization is a digital organization or will soon become digital.
  • Artificial intelligence, Google, Amazon, Facebook and Uber, and big data, have dramatically raised customer expectations and demand.
  • Organizations that specialize in using data will win in the mid-21st century economy.
  • The basic skills required include: data analysis, machine learning, data visualizations, data mining, predictive data analysis, and deep learning.
  • Organizations that fail to transform themselves to digital will follow the footsteps of Blockbuster or Borders Bookstore.

The organization that best utilizes the power of data to create a superior customer experience will prosper in the new business reality.

The question is, how does an organization make a digital transformation? There are so many digital technologies to choose from – too many options! And digital technologies are only part of creating a digital organization. Employees need to be trained in the new technologies, leaders need to learn how to use data to make strategic decisions, and the organization’s business processes need to be rebuilt. There are so many choices to make and the stakes have never been higher!

This course will provide you with a framework to help you successfully navigate the challenges of digital transformation. First, we will talk about how to leverage your organization’s dynamic capabilities to kickstart digital transformation. Second, we will use a fitness landscape to build a competitive digital business model. Finally, we will apply a strategic vision function to help develop your digital business model for the organization’s continued success.


Storytelling and persuasion with data and digital technology

Course 4

Duration: 8 hours

Course Details
What you’ll learn:
  • The decisions that humans make are not usually based on data alone.
  • Decision makers operate from cognitive biases, are influenced by emotions, and make perceptual leaps beyond what the data can suggest.
  • The best way to educate and convince decision-makers is through stories.
  • Stories built by good data analysis.

In this course, you will learn how to create data-driven stories – data storytelling – using the ABT (“And, But, Then”) storytelling framework. We will start by using powerful data science techniques to explore and improve your data. We will craft a compelling narrative from the insights in the data using brain-friendly storytelling techniques.

Once you have the stories, you’ll learn to create inspiring data visualizations and build a compelling presentation for business people – whether face-to-face or online.

In the last week of the course, we will talk about customer training. Customers want the newest and greatest digital products, packed with features. But customers don’t want to spend too much time learning those features. Customer training helps the digital organization be more strategic by helping the customer connect more with the product.

Using data storytelling skills, you will build stories that help customers understand how your organization’s products and services will improve their lives. You will learn how to use data analytics and machine learning in your digital organization to create effective customer training so that your products and services gain the expertise needed to succeed in digital transformation.