Welcome to the future of organizations
Technology is drastically reshaping the business world. And in this world marked by tight competition, organizations are required to innovate and develop at the speed of light to remain ahead – regardless of what industry they belong to, or which countries they operate in.
This exhilarating environment requires leaders who adapt, continuously learn, and understand that technology is key to take their organizations to a more beneficial, optimized, and connected reality.
$3.3 billion
The worldwide spending on technology reached $3.360 billion in 2019.
Source: Statista
52%
52% of tech firms are hiring due to the need for skills in new tech.
Source: IT Industry Outlook 2020
46%
46% of organizations agree that one of the factors that is driving tech growth is the need to reach new customers.
Source: IT Industry Outlook 2020
An online course for updating your competitive advantage
Our online course, Management of Technology: Roadmapping & Development, provides an overview of the principles, methods, and management tools for technologically enabled systems and organizations.
During the course, you will take the journey of technology through its history, its different tools and methods, its fundamental limits, and the theory and empirical evidence for technology evolution over time. All this is supported by a rich set of examples and practical exercises from aerospace and other domains such as transportation, energy, communications, agriculture, and medicine.
By the end of the course, equipped with this knowledge, you’ll be able to lead the implementation of technology in your organization.
When you enroll in this course, you will receive a complimentary copy of Prof. Olivier de Weck’s eTextbook, Technology Roadmapping and Development: A Quantitative Approach to the Management of Technology. The book complements the Management of Technology: Roadmapping & Development course by detailing topics regarding principles, methods, and tools of technology management for organizations and technologically enabled systems. Find more information about the book here.
The skills you will develop
1.
You will learn to quantify technological progress
over time using relevant figures of merit (FOMs).
2.
You will be able to perform a search for technologies
using a systematic scouting approach and comprehensive intellectual property (IP) search.
3.
You will know how to map one or more technologies
to a target product and/or service of your choice and set realistic FOM-based targets.
4.
You will understand how to quantify
the financial and societal value of a technology in its context.
5.
You will be ready to shape the R&D strategy
and portfolio of an organization based on a set of technology roadmaps and by creating an effective environment for R&D project execution.
In addition, you will receive a Certificate of Completion
All the participants who successfully complete the online course Management of Technology: Roadmapping & Development will receive an MIT Professional Education Certificate of Completion. Furthermore, participants will receive * MIT Continuing Education Units (CEUs)*.
To obtain CEUs, complete the accreditation confirmation, which is available at the end of the course. CEUs are calculated for each course based on the number of learning hours.
* The Continuing Education Unit (CEU) is defined as 10 contact hours of ongoing learning to indicate the amount of time they have devoted to a non-credit/non-degree professional development program.
To understand whether or not these CEUs may be applied toward professional certification, licensing requirements, or other required training or continuing education hours, please consult your training department or licensing authority directly.
This course is aimed at
- CTOs, CINOs, AND LEADERS
of technological departments or projects.
- TECHNICAL PROFESSIONALS
who want to obtain a broader strategic vision of technology management.
- CEOs, ENTREPRENEURS, AND FUNCTIONAL MANAGERS
who seek to create new business models and/or scale up their current operations.
- C-SUITE
(especially CTOs, CIOs).
- R+D PROJECT EXECUTIVES
and project managers.
- INDIVIDUAL ENGINEERS
who want to move up within their organizations.
- ANY ROLE
within R+D.
- OTHER PROFILES
that can benefit from this course: engineers, physicists, mathematicians.
Upon completion of this program, you will receive, exclusively, Prof. Olivier de Weck’s e-book: Technology Roadmapping and Development: A Quantitative Approach to the Management of Technology.
Meet the instructors of this course
Listed in alphabetical order
PROF. OLIVIER DE WECK
Professor of Aeronautics and Astronautics and Engineering Systems, MIT
“Technology is the deliberate creation of objects and processes to solve specific problems”.
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Olivier de Weck is the Apollo Program Professor of Astronautics and Engineering Systems at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT). He earned degrees in Industrial Engineering from ETH Zurich and Aerospace Systems from MIT where he is the faculty director of the Engineering Systems Laboratory. His main research is in Systems Engineering with a focus on how complex technological systems are designed and how they evolve over time. He has authored or co-authored over 400 publications for which he has been recognized with twelve best paper awards since 2004. He is a Fellow of INCOSE and a Fellow of AIAA where he is Editor-in-Chief of the Journal of Spacecraft and Rockets. As a former Senior Vice President of Technology Planning and Roadmapping at Airbus he was responsible for roadmapping a $1-billion R&D portfolio for the world’s largest aircraft manufacturer. His passion is to improve life on our home planet Earth through research and education, while paving the way for humanity’s future off-world settlements.