Using Open Data for Digital Business (FutureLearn)

Using Open Data for Digital Business (FutureLearn)

Discover the power of Open Data and learn how you can use it to transform business. Open Data is data that anyone can access, use or share and when used well it can be extremely powerful. It enables businesses, citizens, developers and researchers to harness resources that can make crucial improvements to their communities and the economy. It can also help with the development of new products and services, improve business efficiency and create economic value.

Class Deals by MOOC List - Click here and see FutureLearn's Active Discounts, Deals, and Promo Codes.

This course provides new insight into the history of Open Data, its pros and cons, business cases and business models related to publishing and using Open Data.
How could you benefit? Join to find out.

What topics will you cover?

  • What is Open Data?
  • Why is Open Data useful in business?
  • How to assess and manage risk when using Open Data
  • How Open Data can improve business
  • How to create an Open Data business model
  • How to use external Open Data
  • How to publish Open Data

What will you achieve?

  • Develop Open Data Publication and Use strategies
  • Identify potential Open Data Business Models
  • Explore strategies in Open Data to enhance performance
  • Describe Open Data and its relevance to business
  • Investigate Open Data licensing and risk management
Go to Class
MOOC List is learner-supported. When you buy through links on our site, we may earn an affiliate commission.

Related Courses

Diseño y Creación de un Emprendimiento Social (Coursera) Coursera
Pontificia Universidad Católica de Chile

Diseño y Creación de un Emprendimiento Social (Coursera)

Este MOOC introduce al mundo del emprendimiento social definiendo conceptos de innovación y emprendimiento social dentro de un contexto nacional e internacional, por medio de herramientas, metodologías y técnicas útiles para desarrollar un modelo de negocios con misión social. También se utilizará un enfoque interdisciplinario, abarcando las temáticas del curso desde la perspectiva de la gestión de proyectos, la creatividad, la ideación, el diseño e implementación de soluciones y el comportamiento humano en la sociedad.

Nov 30th 2026
4 Weeks
O Mundo dos Negócios das Subscrições (Coursera) Coursera
FIA Business School

O Mundo dos Negócios das Subscrições (Coursera)

Nossas boas-vindas ao Curso O Mundo dos Negócios das Subscrições. Neste curso, você aprenderá que vivemos em um momento crucial na história dos negócios, no qual o mundo se move de produtos para serviços. No tradicional modelo de negócios, a empresa, através de múltiplos canais, vende seu produto ao cliente e pronto: deve-se entregar o produto o mais rápido possível e passar para o próximo contrato.

Nov 16th 2026
4 Weeks
DO Your Venture: Entrepreneurship For Everyone (edX) EdX
Indian Institute of Management, Bangalore,IIMBx

DO Your Venture: Entrepreneurship For Everyone (edX)

Learn a systematic, scientific and iterative process for identifying, evaluating and testing entrepreneurial opportunities. Are you a student, professional, educator, home-maker or someone who dreams of someday starting your own venture? This hands-on, action oriented business and management course will introduce you to a systematic, scientific and an easy process of testing your ideas and opportunities you envision.

Self Paced
Self-Paced
UX Design Fundamentals: Creating Business Outcomes (FutureLearn) FutureLearn
FutureLearn

UX Design Fundamentals: Creating Business Outcomes (FutureLearn)

Uncover the role of business strategy and adopt a customer-centric mindset to become a successful user experience designer. Create added value to your business with insightful user research. How can a UX (user experience) designer add value to a business across all levels and all team levels? This short UX design course will teach you how the core fundamentals of UX design foster collaborative thinking, drive engagement and ensure better business.

May 23rd 2022
4 Weeks
Creating a Social Business (Coursera) Coursera
Yunus Social Business Fund Bengaluru

Creating a Social Business (Coursera)

This course is primarily aimed at learners interested in knowing about and running a social business. An ideal learner could be a student, social entrepreneur, social intrapreneur, or a corporate professional interested in social business. In the Module 1 of the course students will learn how different social business leaders - such as Professor Muhammad Yunus, Rajni Bakshi, Corinne Bazina, Lamiya Morshed, Suresh Krishna, and Daniel Nowack - are reimagining capitalism. The subsequent modules of this course crystallize varied learnings of practitioners and theorists at YSB to a set of tools and readings, which a learner may use as building blocks of a social business.

Nov 11th 2026
5-12 Weeks
Digital Business Strategy (Coursera) Coursera
University of Virginia

Digital Business Strategy (Coursera)

Develop your ability to design and implement strategies that will help your company prosper in the digital age. In this course, developed by the Darden School of Business at the University of Virginia, Professor Mike Lenox will help you understand the critical function of strategic thinking in the digital age, the role of data and analytics in creating value, the challenge of establishing a dominant platform, the impact of digital technologies on competition, and the importance of appropriating value from innovation.

Nov 30th 2026
4 Weeks
Business Model Thinking (FutureLearn) FutureLearn
Coventry University

Business Model Thinking (FutureLearn)

Get an introduction to business model thinking and turn your ideas into real business opportunities. Learn how to add value to your business. Do you have a business idea? Can your idea make a difference? This course will show you how to use business model thinking and other tools and techniques, to develop your ideas into business opportunities.

No sessions available
2 Weeks
Strategic planning for professional service firms in the time of COVID-19 (FutureLearn) FutureLearn
College of Law

Strategic planning for professional service firms in the time of COVID-19 (FutureLearn)

Plan strategically for a “new normal” by evaluating opportunities and risks in complex and challenging markets. Strategic planning is a fundamental process used to drive business success. While organisations always need to navigate and plan for challenges, the COVID-19 pandemic has shattered stability and continuity and upended both social norms and ways of doing business – creating a “new normal”.

Aug 16th 2021
4 Weeks
Blockchain in Financial Services: Strategic Action Plan (Coursera) Coursera
INSEAD

Blockchain in Financial Services: Strategic Action Plan (Coursera)

In this fourth and final course of the specialization, you will synthesize your learning into a Strategic Action Plan. The goals of this course are twofold: One, it’s for you to identify a specific need or problem within the financial services industry that can potentially be solved using blockchain technology. Two, it’s for you to investigate possible solutions to this problem, and to develop a strategic plan for how these solutions might be executed.

Nov 16th 2026
5-12 Weeks
Companies and climate change (Coursera) Coursera
ESSEC Business School

Companies and climate change (Coursera)

How can companies act in the fight against global warming? This is a question that is being asked more and more urgently to all economic actors. To shed some light on your thoughts, we have met with four companies of various sizes and sectors of activity that are very committed to the subject. They will share with you their progress in aligning themselves with the objectives of the Paris Accord.

Nov 23rd 2026
4 Weeks
Social Impact Strategy: Tools for Entrepreneurs and Innovators (Coursera) Coursera
University of Pennsylvania

Social Impact Strategy: Tools for Entrepreneurs and Innovators (Coursera)

This course offers an introduction to social impact strategy and social entrepreneurship, including key concepts, an overview of the field, and tools to get started as a changemaker. Students will learn how to innovate and design new ideas and new organizational forms to implement those ideas. Students who take this course will be better prepared to launch social impact organizations of their own invention.

Nov 16th 2026
4 Weeks