Our Courses

Capstone: Design Thinking for IS in Business

In this course, learners will be introduced to the capstone project and learn how to integrate the design thinking process in business problem solving. In addition, learners will develop a prototype and get feedback from peers.

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• Self Paced
• 11 hours
• English

Design Thinking and Predictive Analytics for Data Products

This is the second course in the four-course specialization Python Data Products for Predictive Analytics, building on the data processing covered in Course 1 and introducing the basics of designing predictive models in Python. In this course, you will understand the fundamental concepts of statistical learning and learn various methods of building predictive models. At each step in the specialization, you will gain hands-on experience in data manipulation and building your skills, eventually culminating in a capstone project encompassing all the concepts taught in the specialization.

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• Self Paced
• 8 hours
• English

Create Innovative Teams with Design Thinking

Implement design thinking principles and team-based methods to support idea generation and create innovative teams.

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• 18
• English

IoT Systems and Industrial Applications with Design Thinking

The first MOOC to provide a comprehensive introduction to Internet of Things (IoT) including the fundamental business aspects needed to define IoT related products.

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• 25
• English

Problem Solving and Critical Thinking Skills

Develop your ability to tackle complex problems in the workplace using known analytical problem solving techniques, design thinking, and effective research.

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• 11
• English

The Citizen Developer Mindset: Creating Business Solutions with Design Thinking

Learn how to use design thinking to create training programs to teach citizen developers in design thinking.

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• 10
• English

Fostering Virtual World Community Conversations

Design thinking provides “social technologies” to channel conversations into more productive areas and provides structures to make for a safe environment for individuals involved in the problem-solving venture. Finding higher-order solutions is the key to buy-in and community-centered solutions through conversations that start at the grass root level, bringing about long-lasting sustainable change.

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• 64
• English

UX Design

Master Design Thinking and UX Design through user-centred design to deliver innovative user experiences. Learn divergent ideation methods to bring creativity to problem-solving, and convergent ideation methods to innovate within your business context.

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• Self Paced
• 10
• English

Building Strategic Foresight Capabilities

Today, organizations find themselves dealing with an increasing amount of uncertainty. They are often ill-equipped at responding to disruptive change and find themselves blindsided by ‘unexpected’ landslides in their ecosystems. In order to hold their ground, they need to upgrade their capabilities, become more agile in adapting to change and drive firm-level, society-level and industry-level change proactively. This course introduces you to strategic foresight, its main methods and tools and their application in public and private organisations.

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• Self Paced
• 10 hours
• English

Lean Software Development

While scrum and XP were transforming the software development industry, there were another set of ideas (derived from lean manufacturing and Six Sigma) that started to influence software development methods. These ideas around Lean Software Development forms the foundation of number of agile methods.

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• Self Paced
• 10 hours
• English

Innovative Finance: Hacking finance to change the world

To address global poverty - do we really not have enough resources or do we not have the right tools to allocate our resources? The tools of finance, when applied correctly, can be an enabler of social and environmental outcomes. This course is designed to give you the ability to build innovative financing strategies that work towards outcomes such as financial inclusion, access to energy, and access to education. The innovative finance process has five key components.

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• 19 hours
• English

Planning a Patient Safety or Quality Improvement Project (Patient Safety III)

This course provides students with a set of tools and methodologies to plan and initiate a Problem Solving or Quality Improvement project. The first module presents methods for selecting, scoping and structuring a project before it is even initiated. It also introduces the project classifications of implementation and discovery. The second module describes the A3 problem solving methodology and the tool itself. Further in that same module, the student is shown tools to identify problems in flow, defects, and waste and to discover causes, brainstorm, and prioritize interventions.

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• 6 hours
• English

AI Workflow: Feature Engineering and Bias Detection

This is the third course in the IBM AI Enterprise Workflow Certification specialization.    You are STRONGLY encouraged to complete these courses in order as they are not individual independent courses, but part of a workflow where each course builds on the previous ones.   Course 3 introduces you to the next stage of the workflow for our hypothetical media company.  In this stage of work you will learn best practices for feature engineering, handling class imbalances and detecting bias in the data.  Class imbalances can seriously affect the validity of your

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• Self Paced
• 12 hours
• English

Le design thinking pour débutants avec Mural

Ce projet vous permet d’utiliser le design thinking à travers les modèles offerts par la plateforme Mural, outil en ligne de création de visuels graphiques professionnels et de travail à distance.

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• Self Paced
• 1 hour
• French

Design Thinking and Creativity for Innovation

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• English

Design thinking for beginners with Mural

This project allows you to use the design thinking approach through the templates offered by Mural, an online tool for creating professional graphic designs and remote work.

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• 3 hours
• English

Leading the Modern Day Business

The modern day business is a dynamic enterprise, and leading it now needs a conglomerate of essential skills, ranging from design thinking and digital transformation, to product management and IT. This specialization covers these essential skills and concepts, and what they mean for companies and businesses. It starts with digital transformation, developed at the Darden School of Business at the University of Virginia, and led by top-ranked Darden faculty and Boston Consulting Group global management experts.

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• English

Digital Health

This specialisation introduces students to the emerging and multidisciplinary field of digital health and the role and application of digital health technologies including mobile applications, wearable technologies, health information systems, telehealth, telemedicine, machine learning, artificial intelligence and big data. These digital health technologies are assessed in terms of their opportunities and challenges to address real-world public health and health care system challenges in order to improve the quality, safety and efficiency of these services.

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• English

Innovation & Entrepreneurship - From Design Thinking to Funding

This Innovation and Entrepreneurship course focuses on the interconnection between entrepreneurial thinking and innovation. Specifically, we look at models used in Silicon Valley to grow both start-up companies as well as innovation inside large organizations. Bringing together top Haas School of Business, UC Berkeley faculty, this course addresses critical areas for successful growth, including design thinking, open innovation, business models, product-market fit, and financing.

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• 12 hours
• English

Fintech Startups in Emerging Markets

The University of Cape Town’s specialization will give aspiring entrepreneurs the tools to understand the technological innovations and challenges the financial services industry faces in the emerging market context. The specialization covers foundations of the changing financial regulations, new technological applications like blockchain or artificial intelligence and design thinking for startups in emerging markets.

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• English

Enhance User Interface Design with Mood Boards in Miro

By the end of this project, you will be able to create a mood board that can be leveraged to enhance user interface design. To do this, you will gain hands-on experience applying design thinking, user interface knowledge, and context from each step of the customer journey to create a mood board in the Miro online visual collaboration platform for teamwork. Note: This course works best for learners who are based in the North America region. We’re currently working on providing the same experience in other regions.

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• Self Paced
• 4 hours
• English

3D Printing Applications

This course will help you understand how 3D printing is being applied across a number of domains, including design, manufacturing, and retailing. It will also demonstrate the special capabilities of 3D printing such as customization, self-assembly, and the ability to print complex objects. In addition to business applications, this course will also examine how individuals, including those in developing countries, are using this technology to create solutions to the problems they face.

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• 21 hours
• English

Python Data Products for Predictive Analytics

Python data products are powering the AI revolution. Top companies like Google, Facebook, and Netflix use predictive analytics to improve the products and services we use every day. Take your Python skills to the next level and learn to make accurate predictions with data-driven systems and deploy machine learning models with this four-course Specialization from UC San Diego. This Specialization is for learners who are proficient with the basics of Python. You’ll start by creating your first data strategy.

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• English

Customer-Centric IT Strategy

Now more than ever, corporations are investing heavily in IT. The quality of these investments affect the daily work of millions, yet it’s not uncommon to see industry surveys where the failure rates for IT projects is over 50%. It’s possible to do better and it’s possible to do so consistently. In this two-week course, we’ll step through major challenges within corporate IT and how to address them with the disciplined use of design thinking, Lean Startup, and agile as a team framework.

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• 3 hours
• English

Business Innovation and Digital Disruption

In this specialization, participants master the basics of design thinking and its application to business development and innovation. They learn how to identify challenges and validate opportunities in order to drive commercial success using various design methodologies. Remapping the newly defined business model canvas is an important part of the specialization. The specialization also encompasses the technical side of business modeling and strategy development.

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• English