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Meet Your Instructor:

A Globally Recognized Expert In Data Science & Strategy

Vin Vashishta has a 3-layered professional background: Technology, Leadership, and Strategy.

25 years in technology, starting in software engineering and moving into data science in 2012.

Strategist, first published in 2013, Vin has combined his technical and strategic expertise to build Data and AI Strategies for 10 of the largest companies in the world, 21 SMEs, and 3 startups.

2X Founder, leader, and organization builder. Clients bring Vin in as an interim CDO to build and lead their data organizations during crucial growth stages. He founded V-Squared in 2012 and built it into a successful AI Strategy consulting practice. In 2019, he expanded into education and launched High ROI Data Science.

Since 2014, Vin has been called a Data Science and Strategy expert by IBM, Intel, SAP, LinkedIn, NVIDIA, and others. He is a globally recognized thought leader, followed by Gartner, Walmart, Uber, Microsoft, Salesforce, MongoDB, Deloitte, and many others.

Vin has been teaching technical and non-technical audiences since 2007.

What Does Certification Give You?


Technical strategists are some of the highest-paid employees and consultants because of their significant impacts on revenue and margins. Technical strategists are c-level advisors who modernize businesses, making them more innovative, productive, and profitable. They bring a new unicorn skillset to meet the business’s need for technologies to drive growth.


This certification course teaches the technology model, a new strategic construct explaining why businesses leverage each available technology. Use cases support 4 main benefits: revenue growth, increased productivity, cost reductions, and competitive advantages.


Objectives and Outcomes. The sections on the technology model teach technical strategists to:


  1. Define and implement a technology model to support the business and operating models
  2. Reveal opportunities created by each technology during the strategy planning process
  3. Implement a framework for c-level leaders to manage their technologies’ value creation
  4. Develop and implement a transformation roadmap and timeline for technical maturity


Businesses with a holistic technical strategy that includes data and AI see 50% more growth than their peers, according to a 2021 Accenture survey. This certification course teaches an assessment framework that creates transparency into the business’s current maturity level. The enterprise transformation framework teaches technical strategists how to:


  1. Align the data maturity across the business
  2. Define maturity to multiple audiences with technical and non-technical backgrounds
  3. Present the value proposition for each phase of maturity to get buy-in
  4. Connect capability development to the products they enable the business to develop and monetize
  5. Reduce the complexity and costs of transformation
  6. Prevent bottlenecks, silos, and a lack of clarity from derailing business-critical initiatives
  7. Teach each organization the benefits they will realize, and what transformation strategy means for them


Take a look at the full course outline. You can email your questions to [email protected]

Certification Outline

  Introduction
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  Business Fundamentals In The Data Age
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  Integrating Data And AI Strategy Into The Larger Business Strategy
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  Strategy Planning
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  Strategy Implementation
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  Using AI For Operating Model Optimization
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  Data Science And Strategy
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  A Unified View Of Enterprise Transformation For Alignment
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  Assessing The Business
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  Solving The Business’s AI Last Mile Problem
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  Data Product Strategy
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  Implementation Cases
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  Causal KPIs And Communications Frameworks
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Why Certify?


Individual Benefits:
  • Higher Earning Potential
  • More Career Options and Stability
  • Faster Advancement
  • Greater Career Satisfaction From Impact and Recognition


Business Benefits:
  • Control over technical initiatives
  • Alignment with business strategy and other organizations
  • Lower initiative costs
  • Faster implementations and execution
  • Results are more predictable and have a higher impact
  • Clarity on strategy, execution, and benefits across the enterprise


Why HROI Certifications?


Well Recognized and Respected: Taught by an award-winning industry expert on AI and strategy. HROI certifications prove capabilities.

Customized For Data Professionals: Lessons are connected to the field and relevant to data professionals' unique needs.

Curriculum Built From A Rich Set Of Sources: Use cases, research, industry surveys, and dozens of authors.

Expert Insights: 27 years in technology, 17 in leadership, 10 in data science, and 7 in technical strategy. The instructor brings real-world insights into each lesson.

Course Design Best Practices: Courses are distraction-free and built on adult education principles. A combination of engaging methods delivers key learning objects for multiple learning styles.