Online Course – IBM & Darden Certified Professional Internship in Digital Strategy, University of Virginia

Gain an edge with key business and technical skills. Understand how emerging technologies are changing the industry and create a strategy to transform your business.

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קורס אונליין - התמחות מקצועית מוסמכת באסטרטגיה דיגיטלית של IBM & Darden

Professional Certificate

Beginners

No prior knowledge required

Time to complete the course

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Skills you will acquire in the course

  • Understanding the three technologies that are impacting all businesses: artificial intelligence, cloud computing, and data science.
  • Developing or upgrading a digital transformation strategy for a business.
  • Helping managers understand technology and technical employees understand strategy.
  • Leading projects in the field of digital transformation and business and technical strategy.

What you will learn in the course

Courses for which the course is suitable

  • Digital project managers
  • Business Strategy Managers
  • Data analysts
  • Artificial Intelligence Experts
  • Information Technology Managers
  • Digital Transformation Consultants
  • Digital Marketing Managers
  • Business Development Managers
  • Information Systems Administrators
  • Data science professionals

Internship – 6-unit course series

This specialization is designed to combine the latest business research in digital and strategy with the most advanced technological knowledge about the technologies that are changing the way we work and do business, to enable you to advance your career.

Internship goals

  • Understand the three technologies that are impacting all businesses: artificial intelligence, cloud computing, and data science.
  • Develop or upgrade a digital transformation strategy for your business.
  • Help managers understand technology and technical employees understand strategy.
  • Lead projects in the field of digital transformation and business and technical strategy.

Details of the courses that make up the specialization

Introduction to Artificial Intelligence (AI)

Course 1
13 hours
4.7 (14,934 ratings)

What will you learn?

  • Describe what artificial intelligence is and explain the key concepts related to it.
  • Demonstrate how AI applications and use cases can transform our lives and work
  • Learn about the potential and impact of AI to transform businesses and professions
  • Describe the ethical issues, limitations, and concerns related to AI

Skills you will acquire

  • Business Transformation
  • Data-driven decision making
  • Business solutions
  • Digital strategy
  • Technology Strategy

The Strategy Challenge

Course 2
5 hours
4.7 (63 ratings)

What will you learn?

  • Develop your ability to think strategically, analyze the competitive environment, and recommend company positioning and value creation

Skills you will acquire

  • Data Science
  • Spreadsheet
  • Data Analytics
  • Microsoft Excel
  • Data visualization

Introduction to data analysis

Course 3
10 hours
4.8 (16,464 ratings)

What will you learn?

  • Explain what data analysis is and the key steps in the data analysis process.
  • Consider different data roles such as data engineer, data analyst, data scientist, business analyst, and business intelligence analyst.
  • Describe the different types of data structures, file formats, and data sources.
  • Describe the data analysis process that includes collecting, processing, searching, and visualizing data.

Skills you will acquire

  • Business Transformation
  • Cloud-based platforms
  • Digital strategy
  • Data integrity

Introduction to cloud computing

Course 4
12 hours
4.6 (6,573 ratings)

What will you learn?

  • Define cloud computing and explain essential characteristics, history, the business case for cloud, and emerging technologies that enable the cloud
  • Describe the cloud service models – IaaS, PaaS, SaaS, and the cloud distribution models – public, private, hybrid
  • Explaining new trends related to the cloud including hybrid, microservices, serverless, cloud-native, DevOps, and application modernization
  • List and explain services of popular cloud platforms including AWS, Microsoft Azure, Google Cloud, IBM Cloud, Alibaba Cloud and others

Skills you will acquire

  • Generative AI
  • AI Ethics
  • Natural language processing
  • Machine learning
  • Artificial Intelligence

Introduction to Digital Transformation Part 1

Course 5
4 hours
4.7 (290 ratings)

What will you learn?

  • Understand the “digital transformation stack” – infrastructure, technology, business functions, and strategy

Skills you will acquire

  • Cloud Computing
  • Hybrid multi-cloud
  • Devops
  • IaaS PaaS SaaS
  • Cloud-born

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