Digital Disruption (Coursera)

Digital Disruption (Coursera)

In this exciting online course you can understand how technology, strategy and digital business models are important to be innovative in your job. Also, you will understand what disruption is and which are the most disruptive technologies to articulate business strategy in times of digital innovation and and be able to capture those impacts using modern strategy analysis tools.

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To succeed in this course, you should be a professional with at least 2-3 years of experience in an organizational setting. Having specific experience in a design role or working with designers will be helpful.
By the end of this course, you will be able to:

  • Identify the relationship between technology and innovation, recognizing different types of innovation.
  • Identify the impact of digital technologies both within a firm (being digital) and from the firm outwards (going digital).
  • Apply the concept of business plans and use modern tools to summarize their main elements.

Course 1 of 4 in the Business Innovation and Digital Disruption Specialization.

Syllabus

WEEK 1
Disruptive Technologies
Understand the technical background behind disruptive technologies, looking at general concepts behind innovation and disruption.

WEEK 2
Digital Disruption in Organizations - Being Digital
Understand the impact of digital disruption on organizations internally.

WEEK 3
Digital Disruption in Organizations - Going Digital
Understand the impact of digital disruption on organizations externally, with clients.

WEEK 4
Strategy and Business Plan
Understand how strategy is formulated and expressed in order to be communicated to others.

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