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The current complexities of technology implementation
Effective technology implementation requires careful planning, evaluation, and management to ensure that you incorporate the disruptive technologies that will benefit your organization the most, keeping in mind your workforce, product or service, and goals. By applying data analysis and theory, elaborating technology roadmaps, and examining reskilling and upskilling solutions, business leaders can enhance the decision-making process for new investments and ensure that every aspect of a business is optimized in the process of implementing new tech.
As these new, disruptive technologies trigger the seismic shifts currently affecting multiple industries around the globe, organizations are constantly looking to incorporate the latest developments and maximize efficiency. And as technology evolves at a faster-than-ever pace, these momentous changes reiterate the need for decision-makers to carefully place their strategic bets, lead their teams effectively, and leverage all available data to achieve their goals.
An online Professional Certificate Program to evaluate, incorporate, and manage new technology
This Professional Certificate Program in Strategic Technology Roadmapping and Innovation is a technical program with an emphasis on:
strategic technological leadership
team management
data-driven planning
decision-making
This all-encompassing program incorporates a wide range of expertise and skills to strategically boost innovation in your organization, including technology forecasting and roadmapping, innovation management, and the use of data analysis to enhance the decision-making process behind tech investment and design. You will discover how these disciplines converge to guide you toward developing more efficient business operations.
The Learning Journey
In this nine-month online program, participants will explore these four courses in-depth to discover how to prepare their organizations for their own technological transformation:
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Management of Technology:
Roadmapping & Development
Management of Technology:
Roadmapping & Development
Examine the principles, methods, and management tools for technologically enabled systems and organizations. Walk the path of technology through its history, its different tools and methods, its fundamental limits, and the theory and empirical evidence for technology evolution over time.
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Management of Technology:
Strategy & Portfolio Analysis
Management of Technology:
Strategy & Portfolio Analysis
Explore how to build, analyze, and manage an efficient technology portfolio, while also contemplating the expectations of technology in the future. To do so, you will be provided with a wide variety of real case studies and practical exercises from diverse industries.
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Digital Platforms: Designing Two-Sided Markets from APIs to Feature Roadmaps
Digital Platforms: Designing Two-Sided Markets from APIs to Feature Roadmaps
Digital platforms and two-sided markets have quickly established themselves as a staple of modern business, presenting new opportunities and challenges alike for engineers, product managers, regulators, and entrepreneurs. However, there continues to be little discussion surrounding why some digital platforms help companies flourish where others have fallen short.
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Leadership & Innovation
Leadership & Innovation
Learn to lead by understanding your own strengths as a leader and harness your own creativity to build teams and cultures with an instilled culture of innovation. Take a pragmatic approach and discover the tools, methodologies, and processes that can be put in practice from day one to boost both leadership and innovation in your business.
The skills you will develop
By more effectively uniting the disciplines of innovation, technology, and workforce management under a single directive, professionals will be able to lead their teams and organizations to successfully select, deploy, and manage technology. In this Professional Certificate Program, you will be able to:
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Quantify technological progress over time
using relevant figures of merit (FOMs), map one or more technologies to a target product and/or service of their choice, and set realistic FOM-based targets.
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Shape the R&D strategy and portfolio
of an organization based on a set of technology roadmaps along with the creation of an environment conducive to R&D project execution.
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Leverage both the theory and data analysis-based insights
into technological, innovation-related outcomes to improve investment and design choices.
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Establish a clear vision of their strengths and goals
as a leader while contemplating the full range of impacts that leadership can have on innovation.
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Discover how to create, communicate, and solve problems
in an innovative way that fosters an environment of creativity and innovation.
In addition, you will receive a Certificate of Completion
All the participants who successfully complete Strategic Technology Roadmapping and Innovation will recieve a Certificate of Completion from MIT Professional Education. Furthermore, the participants who complete the program recieve 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 Professional Certificate Program is designed for (but not limited to)
- C-SUITE—INCLUDING CTOs AND CINOs—AND LEADERS OF TECHNOLOGICAL DEPARTMENTS OR PROJECTS
who need to understand the evolution of technology and optimal technology management for their organizations.
- TECHNICAL PROFESSIONALS
wishing to discover how the methods and tools of technology management can transform their business operations.
- CEOs, ENTREPRENEURS, AND FUNCTIONAL MANAGERS
looking to create new business models and/or scale up their current operations.
- R&D PROJECT EXECUTIVES AND PROJECT MANAGERS
seeking to understand the benefits and opportunities that technology offers their organization and its digital transformation.
PREREQUISITES
Experience is beneficial but not required.
Meet the instructors of this program
Listed in alphabetical order
Dr. Bruce Cameron is director of the System Architecture Lab at MIT and co-founder of the consulting firm Technology Strategy Partners. His areas of research include technology strategy, system architecture and product platform management. Previously, Dr. Cameron led the “MIT Commonality”, a research study of 30 companies on platform performance, which concluded that companies face systemic pressure on homogeneity, in part, as a result of problems in determining costs. Dr. Cameron has supervised more than 50 graduate students and conducted research projects for Amazon, BP, Sikorsky, Nokia, Caterpillar, AMGEN, Verizon and NASA.
Dr. Cameron teaches the subject of System Architecture for the “System Design and Management”, where he has trained over 500 students. Dr. Cameron´s teaching at Sloan Executive Education has been rated as the highest level of Executive Education program at MIT for several years. In addition, he is the Faculty Director of MIT´s online certificate “Architecture and System Engineering”, which has trained more than 5,300 participants.
David Niño is a senior lecturer on the Daniel J. Riccio Graduate Engineering Leadership Program at MIT. Previously, he was a professor in the practice of engineering leadership at Rice University. During this tenure, he led the creation of the first four-year certificate in engineering leadership and was director of Leadership Rice, the university’s leadership development program.
A former professor of management, Dr. Niño has published works on leadership, ethics, corporate culture, and the development of professional management skills. He has conducted research in cutting-edge technology environments and is currently interested in researching how leadership develops among engineers and in engineering organizations. Dr. Niño has taught leadership since 1998 at the undergraduate, master’s, doctoral, and executive/professional levels.
He is currently a founding officer of the Leadership Development Division of the American Society for Engineering Education and advises professionals and executives on leadership and development issues.
He holds a PhD in management from the University of Texas, Austin, where he also studied for his Bachelor of Arts, Bachelor of Business Administration, and Master of Arts.
Olivier de Weck was born in Switzerland and has a degree in industrial engineering from the ETH Zurich and in aerospace systems engineering from MIT. Prior to joining MIT, he was an engineering liaison and later director of the McDonnell Douglas F/A-18 aircraft engineering program.
Professor De Weck is a leader in systems engineering research. He focuses on the design of complex man-made systems, such as aircraft, spacecraft, cars, printers and critical infrastructure, and on their evolution. His main focus is on strategic properties that have the potential to maximize life cycle value. Since 2001, his group has developed new methods and quantitative tools that explicitly consider production, flexibility, common features and sustainability, among other characteristics. Professor De Weck’s teaching emphasizes excellence, innovation, and the combination of theory and practice.
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Receive a call for an interview with our admissions team
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