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SERIAL LEARNING

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INNOVATION

GAMIFICATION - Wharton School - 2021

Gamification is the application of game elements and digital game design techniques to non-game problems, such as business and social impact challenges. This course teaches the mechanisms of gamification, why it has such tremendous potential, and how to use it effectively.

INNOVATION MANAGEMENT - Erasmus University Rotterdam - 2020

Course topics:

  • Use the main innovation management concepts

  • Explain the adoption life cycle and innovation adoption at the individual level

  • Define creativity and explain how creativity can be stimulated

  • Recognize and describe three types of idea management systems

  • Explain what an innovation strategy is and why it is important

  • Describe what a product portfolio is

  • Explain how innovation projects should be selected and managed

  • Explain the importance of teams, team structures and networks for innovation

DESIGN THINKING - HPI For Porsche AG - 2020

This course provides an introduction to the foundational activities related to design thinking: a flexible, yet systematic process to define and solve problems.

Design thinking is a strategy and mindset that can be applied to any industry to solve problems.

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STRATEGY AND FORESIGHT

DIGITAL STRATEGY - Hyper Island - 2021

​Key learnings:

  • Align your current business strategy with the opportunities and risks of digital

  • Create a sustainable and adaptable digital strategy, to meet customer demand and your business’ vision

  • Create your own digital strategy, know how to implement it, and gain the confidence to present a digital strategy

  • Know how the networked society and platform economy will impact businesses, individuals, and society

  • Understand how you can and cannot apply new technology to existing business activities

  • Understand changes in consumer behavior and the impact of digital business models and client journeys

SYNTHESIZING FUTURES - Futurity Studio - 2021

A four-step future-focused multidisciplinary approach to tackle uncertainties, understand emerging customer needs, communicate your vision, accelerate new product development, and plan a roadmap to future growth.

  • Mapping futures landscapes

  • Building futures worlds

  • Making future artifact

  • Forming roadmap and backcasting

BLUE OCEAN PRACTITIONER - INSEAD - 2020

Learn how to:

  • Reorient perspective from focusing on competition to focusing on creation

  • Look to non-customers rather than customers to create new demand

  • Turn pain points buyers face into opportunities to create value

  • Reconstruct existing market boundaries and create new market space

  • Create value for buyers while keeping costs down

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AGILE METHODOLOGIES

SAFe PRODUCT OWNER/PRODUCT MANAGER - Scaled Agile - 2021

Develop the skillsets needed to guide the delivery of value in a Lean enterprise by becoming a SAFe® 5 Product Owner/Product Manager (POPM).

Gain an in-depth understanding of how to effectively perform their role in the Agile Release Train (ART) as it delivers value through Program Increments.

Explore how to apply Lean thinking to decompose Epics into Features and Stories, refine Features and Stories, manage Program and Team backlogs, and to plan and execute Iterations and Program Increments.

Discover how the Continuous Delivery Pipeline and DevOps culture contribute to the relentless improvement of the ART.

AGILE COACH - Tagueri for Porsche AG - 2021

Get a theoretically deep understanding of Agile principles, values, roles, and artifacts.

Learn how crucial attitude is for success/failure. With the help of valuable tips and tricks, reflect and develop a guide for consciously dealing with the agile mindset and changes in general.

AGILE PROJECT MANAGEMENT - University of Maryland - 2020/2021

Learn the mechanics of how to design and facilitate projects using “pure” Agile Scrum and Lean Kanban techniques.

Learn the trade-offs of using hybrid techniques, such as Lean Startup, Scaled Agile for the Enterprise (SAFe), and Disciplined Agile Development.
Go beyond these frameworks to the science and essential principles needed to ensure getting the great benefits of Agile Project Management methods: Speed, Innovation, Leadership and Kaizen (Change for the Better).

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SUSTAINABILITY AND CIRCULAR ECONOMY

INSIDE THE CIRCULAR ECONOMY: BEYOND THE BASICS - Ellen MacArthur Foundation - 2021

Key modules:

  • Circular economy common misconceptions

  • Circular design

  • Systems thinking and climate change

  • Regenerative agriculture

  • Upstream innovation

  • Circular economy opportunities and benefits

CIRCULAR ECONOMY - TU Delft - 2020

Key modules:

  • What is circular economy?

  • Business value in a circular economy

  • Longer lasting products

  • Remanufacturing

  • Waste equals food

  • Thinking in systems

DESIGN FOR SUSTAINABILITY - SCAD - 2019

Key learnings:

  • Understanding the basics of sustainability

  • A diversity of sustainable design approaches

  • The sustainable development goals

  • Unleashing sustainability in all its forms

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ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE AND MACHINE LEARNING

AI PRODUCT MANAGER ND - Udacity - 2020

Learn how to evaluate the business value of an AI product.

Build fluency with AI concepts, create a data set, measure the effectiveness of different Machine Learning models, and craft a product proposal.

Modules:

  • Introduction to AI in business

  • Creating a dataset

  • Build a model

  • Measuring impact and updating models

Projects: Create a medical image annotation job - Build a model with Google AutoML - Create an AI business proposal

MACHINE LEARNING FOR ALL - University Of London - 2020

Learn about:

  • Machine Learning

  • Data Features

  • Machine Learning in practice

INTRO TO SELF DRIVING CARS ND - Udacity - 2018

Learn about:

  • Bayesian Thinking

  • Working with Matrices

  • C++ Basics

  • Performance Programming in C++

  • Navigating Data Structures

  • Vehicle Motion and Control

  • Computer Vision and Machine Learning

Projects: Implement a Matrix Class - Translate Python to C++ - Implement a Route Planner - Traffic Light Classifier

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MOBILITY AND SMART CITIES

LEVERAGING URBAN MOBILITY DISRUPTIONS - MITx - 2020

Key learnings:

  • Definitions and concepts related to new mobility

  • Critically evaluate new mobility disruptions

  • Gain knowledge about land use development, urban economics, and transportation pricing

  • Differentiate between different business models and how to approach technology and data for new mobility

  • Gain knowledge about how human psychology can be used to change travel behavior through behavioral economics

  • How to mitigate the effects of transportation on climate change

  • How to positively transform urban areas into sustainable, equitable, and joyful cities

SMART CITIES - ETH Zürich - 2020

Key modules:

  • Smart cities

  • Big Data and stocks and flows of information

  • Citizen-design science

  • Urban complexity science

  • Smart livability

  • From smart cities to responsive cities

SMART CITIES: MANAGEMENT OF SMART URBAN INFRASTRUCTURES - EPFL - 2019

Key learnings:

  • Nature of disruptive innovations (smart technologies) in urban infrastructure systems

  • State-of-the-art strategies that can be used for “smart infrastructure” solutions in cities, while effectively managing the transition from legacy infrastructures to smart systems

  • Management of the transition phase from legacy infrastructure systems to smart cities by supporting innovations while avoiding early lock-in

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