Tech for Managers

Spring 2020

A new programme of short, intensive and practical courses which have been developed to help you gain a critical appreciation of these important technologies.

The programme consists of the following courses:

Design Thinking: A Collection of Methods and Tools for Inventive Problem Solving (16-17 March 2020)
FinTech for Managers (18 March 2020)
Artificial Intelligence De-mystified: Opportunities and Value in Your Business (19 March 2020)
Cyber Security for Managers (20 March 2020)
Blockchain for Managers (21 March 2020)

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.

Upcoming courses

Design Thinking: A Collection of Methods and Tools for Inventive Problem-solving

Professional development
Mon 16 Mar 2020 to 17 Mar 2020
9:00am-5:00pm

Design Thinking is about solving problems to create products. It is concerned with developing a deep understanding of human needs, wants and desires through ethnographic research and close observation.

FinTech for Managers

Professional development
Wed 18 Mar 2020
9:00am-5:00pm

This intensive one-day course will help you separate myth from reality and gain a critical foundational appreciation for FinTech developments and associated innovations globally, with an unique focus on Asia and China in particular.

Artificial Intelligence De-mystified: Opportunities and Value in Your Business

Professional development
Thu 19 Mar 2020
9:00am-5:00pm

This one-day course sets out to demystify artificial intelligence (AI) and machine learning (ML). We will introduce the language and key ideas that will enable your business to unlock value from this powerful emerging technology.

Cyber Security for Managers

Professional development
Fri 20 Mar 2020
9:00am-5:00pm

This one-day course sets out to de-mystify Cyber Security. For business managers and those who want a practical, 'business oriented' introduction to understand the protection of internet-connected systems from cyberattacks.

Blockchain for Managers

Professional development
Sat 21 Mar 2020
9:00am-5:00pm

Focus on the use of distributed ledgers in business scenarios, taking into account the various privacy and confidentiality requirements that organisations face, and the various other regulatory frameworks that govern business today.