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Description:
Empower your business through our 'Business Transformation with Cloud Computing' training course. Explore the profound impact of cloud technology and data science on modern business landscapes. Discover core cloud business drivers, evaluate the feasibility of business transformation for your team, and develop the skills to execute short- and long-term projects utilizing the cloud's capabilities. Enhance your understanding and vocabulary in the realms of cloud technology. Additionally, receive a valuable student workbook equipped with templates, guides, and resource links to assist you in crafting a customized briefing document for sharing insights with leadership, technical teams, or partners. Embrace the transformative potential of cloud computing for your business
Course Code/Duration:
BDT174 / 1 Day
Learning Objectives:
After this course, you will be able to:
- Explain what cloud technology is and the top reasons the cloud era is revolutionizing business.
- Identify ways cloud technology can create more value in your day-to-day work and for your overall organization.
- Explain how a combination of an innovation mindset and specific business principles and practices can help to organically promote an innovation culture.
- Craft an ideal transformation challenge for your organization.
- Recognize today’s top cybersecurity challenges and the importance of a shared responsibility plan for maintaining data security and privacy.
- Identify components of a security program to build into your transformation journey.
- Build a business case and summary page for your overall transformation project using the templates provided.
- Savvy about your own business practices.
- No prior technical knowledge.
- Business decision-makers: directors (managers of managers), managers of individual contributors (ICs) or ICs working in non-IT functions/divisions (such as finance, marketing, sales, HR, product design) interested in understanding the applications of cloud technology for business improvement opportunities and transformational project(s).
- Business decision-makers: directors (managers of managers), managers of individual contributors (ICs) or ICs working in non-IT functions/divisions (such as finance, marketing, sales, HR, product design) interested in understanding the applications of cloud technology for business improvement opportunities and transformational project(s).
Course Outline:
The course includes presentations, demonstrations, and hands-on labs.
Module 1: Why cloud technology is revolutionizing business
- Innovations throughout history leading up to the cloud era.
- What is cloud and why is it revolutionizing business?.
- The danger of maintaining status quo.
- The superpowers of cloud technology.
- What does this mean for you?
Module 2: Fostering a culture of innovation
- The “garage” or “innovation” mindset.
- Business and culture challenges of the new cloud paradigm.
- Principles and best practices to scale the innovation mindset.
- Practicing an innovation mindset with an industry example.
- What does this mean for you?
Module 3: Define the ideal business transformation challenge
- Improvements versus transformations.
- Writing the ideal transformation challenge with two key principles.
- Data sets and mapping your organization’s data ecosystem.
- Identifying most transformative challenge using a framework.
- What does this mean for you?
Module 4: Build trust with availability, security, and compliance
- Fundamental terms: privacy, availability, security, and compliance.
- Today’s top cybersecurity challenges.
- What is a “Shared Responsibility Model” and why is it important?
- Discuss examples of international compliance standards for cloud and how Cloud can help meet them.
- What does this mean for you?
Module 5: Build a business case for your transformation challenge
- Identifying the best solution for a business challenge.
- Creating a transformation roadmap.
- Categorizing the required datasets to reach a solution.
- Creating a business case for a transformation project.
- What does this mean for you?
Training material provided:
Yes (Digital format)