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Data Driven Business and Digital Leadership

Prepare for success in the current shift towards data driven, platform and digital business models.  Understand the Fourth Industrial Revolution in which data, analytics and smart propositions leveraging AI will be the norm.  Our journey follows a progressive path to help you transform and succeed in a digital world:

1. Raising awareness of the data driven and platform business models and associated data management prerequisites
2. Understanding the Business Intelligence, Analytical and Data Management capabilities needed and defining the steps needed to implement these
3. Guiding you through the transformation of your business to be successful in this data driven future.  Addresses leadership, strategy and change agendas.

Winning with Artificial Intelligence and Cognitive Augmentation

Learn how to leverage AI for smart customer propositions and a transformed business model.  We offer our popular introduction journey “AI in a Day”, together with the extended version which describes how to augment the cognitive abilities of an organisation:

1. Artificial Intelligence (AI) in a Day
   This provides an overview of AI, explains the key algorithms and applications, and takes you through the steps to build your first AI model using automated Machine Learning.  After this course you can build and assess your own AI models.
2. Cognitive Augmentation
   Take the additional steps to learn how leaders such as Google and Tesla embed AI capabilities as a core competence across their organisation including “Human in the Loop” continual Machine Learning.  This is essential to enable your organisation to use AI in a data driven or platform business model and transform performance to the levels seen by unicorns and Big tech leaders.

We recommend the Data Driven Business I Foundation journey as a prerequisite to these journeys.  This helps the participant understand the underlying approach to data that is required to be successful in AI.  Contact us to discuss further.

Marinka Vervaart: “AI in a Day is really next level – this is directly applicable and relevant in business today”

Blockchain, Digital Assets, Decentralised Finance and Ecosystems

Learn how to move beyond the hype and create transformational platforms and distributed applications (dApps) using one of the most disruptive technologies of our day.  We have delivered this training in different variants to more than 4.000 participants with an ongoing schedule both in-company and via our learning partners.

We are developing the online version now and continue to offer these journeys via webinar and classical classroom masterclasses and workshops.  Contact us to discuss this further.

We offer the following series of Blockchain journeys:

1. Blockchain Foundation
   This provides an overview of Blockchain, Distributed Applications (dApps) using Smart Contracts and the Governance, Risk and Compliance issues it raises.  We address business models, the technology and regulatory issues.
2. dApps and Smart Contract Development
   Learn how to develop distributed applications (dApps) using Smart Contracts.  We tailor the programme to your technical experience level including business professionals who wish to experience what the technology is and IT professionals with development experience who wish to start developing dApps.  We use Solidity on the Ethereum platform.
3. Managing Digital Assets and Decentralised Finance in Ecosystems
   Learn how to disrupt existing business models using tokens to digitally manage assets, create payments with crypto-euros and design ecosystems to transform the economy.  include Decentralised Finance (DeFi) and Central Bank Digital Currencies (CBDCs).

Contact us to discuss the variants which we regularly run for these programmes.  Upon sufficient demand we will schedule a new date or combine with our partners to enable the programmes at short notice.

Protecting Value with Risk Management

An entrepreneur creates and protects value.  Our business driven approach to risk management addresses the cultural, behavioural and procedural aspects of managing risk in your business. Discover how to manage risk both today and in the fast changing, digital future.

We offer Foundation, Advanced and Fit for the Future programmes for risk professionals and a tailored programme for business professionals who wish to learn how to manage risks.

1. Foundation
   Essential competencies for junior to medium level risk managers.  This programme focuses on the why and what of risk management, psychology of risk taking, and all steps in the risk cycle including risk assessments, control design, monitoring and reporting.
2. Advanced (Risk Leadership)
   Essential Competencies for senior risk managers and risk leaders.  This programme focuses on setting the right context for risk management including Integrated Risk and Control Frameworks, Strategic Risk Assessment, Risk Appetite and Scenario Planning and how to engage with executive business leaders around Risk and Compliance.  We also address how risk capability can be positioned to win business in different market areas.
3. Fit for the Future
   Essential preparation for all risk professionals to prepare for the new digital world.  Learn how risk management must evolve to be relevant in the new world, how to perform risk assessments of digital technology such as Blockchain and AI, and how to work in agile organisations.
4. Risk Management in Business
   A tailored programme for business professionals who must manage risks in their business domain.  Focuses on Foundation activities to enable business managers to integrate essential risk management activities in business operations and change.

We also run a Collaborative Learning programme with Risk Organisations who wish to share learning based upon the above programmes.  This enables sharing of experience and enhanced learning.  Senior risk managers are able to contribute their expertise and reuse materials for tailored in-company programmes – contact us to discuss further.

Become “Fit for the Future”!

Prepare yourself and your organisation for success in a digital future.  The nature of competition is rapidly changing driven by the emergence of new technologies and the dominance of companies who are organised to take advantage of them – rapidly growing startups or unicorns, and established technology leaders who are dominating the economy with a new platform oriented and data driven business model.

Where does this leave the traditional businesses? How to adapt in order to survive and how does the current Covid-19 situation factor into this? How can employees develop the essential skills to remain relevant and employable in the near future?

We have supported multiple corporate organisations with our “Fit for the Future” programme, helping drive transformation of the business and helping employees understand the new rules of business and step into a development track to thrive in the new world.  This helps employers develop their employees for success in a digital world.

Our programme can be followed by individuals or applied across an organisation as part of an overall transformation and reskilling initiative. The key modules are:

• I.amDigital
  We partner with I.amDigital to provide basic awareness of a range of technologies and trends through a learning portal with highly accessible materials.  This materials is currently only available in Dutch.
• Top 10 Technologies
  Our Top 10 technologies masterclass is a popular introduction to the key technologies which are reshaping our economy.  In addition to Blockchain and AI we look at the most significant established and emerging technologies including augmented reality, internet of things, edge, mobile, quantum, robotics and wearables.  This is continually updated with new insights and includes demonstrations and applications of the technologies.
• Fit for the Future
  Prepare for a new future.  Start the path of acquiring the skills that are essential to remind relevant in a new era of competition.  We take you on a voyage through a world of data, AI, blockchain and new business models with demonstrations and participant exercises such as engaging with a robot and analysing your own images with advanced facial and scene recognition technology.  We also address organising for innovation looking at startups and scalps, successful unicorns, holocratic and agile organisations and the challenge for traditional corporates to innovate and grow in a fast moving world.

Engaging in our community

We run some programmes which are free to join.  This includes the “Ask me anything” webinar enabling you to ask any questions related to a journey that you are following or enquire about the journeys.  We also have provided a programme to help get you started with virtual team working and related technologies.

1. Ask me anything webinar
   Join our ongoing series of webinars which enable you to ask questions live with the experts behind these journeys.
2. Virtual Teamwork Kickstarter
   Learn about the various tools which help you to work as a virtual team and collaborate on projects.

You need to register in order to join these free programmes.