Tech for Managers

New online Tech for Managers courses

Adapted from the successful Tech for Managers programme, these new courses are designed to improve your professional development online and develop your understanding of these important technologies, from anywhere in the world.

• Blockchain for Managers (Online) (25 - 28 Jan)

Dates for the following courses are to be confirmed, and will be announced via course news.

• Artificial Intelligence Demystified: Opportunities and Value in Your Business

• Design Thinking Introductory Tutorial 

• Design Thinking Practitioner 

We are also running a new programme of online business courses taught by industry experts and Oxford University academics. 

Tech for Managers programme in Oxford

A programme of short, intensive and practical courses held in-person at the University of Oxford, which have been developed to help you gain a critical appreciation of these important technologies.

The programme consists of the following courses:

• Cyber Security for Managers (11 June 2021)

Dates for the follwing courses are to be confirmed, and will be announced via course news.

• Design Thinking: A Collection of Methods and Tools for Inventive Problem Solving (2-day course)
• FinTech for Managers (1-day course)
• Artificial Intelligence De-mystified: Opportunities and Value in Your Business (1-day course)
• Blockchain for Managers (1-day course)

These courses can be taken separately or as a complete week.

Details of the discount package for the complete week.

The courses are for managers and entrepreneurs who require a good overview of the subject area and also some practical implementation of the relevant technologies.

• Gain an understanding of the overall strategic threats and opportunities
• Organise your business response to exploit opportunities
• Learn how to identify and select opportunities
• Expand your knowledge of the technologies that are available
• Obtain a realistic, hands-on appreciation of what it takes to implement these technologies

Course structure

Each course has been developed to follow the format below:

Strategic

Is this technology important to my business?
Discovering strategic threats and opportunities.

Organisational

How should I organise to exploit this opportunity?

Operational

Finding specific opportunities within my business.

Technological

What kind of things can this technology do for my business? What technologies are available?

Implementation

The technology at the ‘ground level’. Doing it for real.