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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:
- Define and implement a technology model to support the business and operating models
- Reveal opportunities created by each technology during the strategy planning process
- Implement a framework for c-level leaders to manage their technologies’ value creation
- 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:
- Align the data maturity across the business
- Define maturity to multiple audiences with technical and non-technical backgrounds
- Present the value proposition for each phase of maturity to get buy-in
- Connect capability development to the products they enable the business to develop and monetize
- Reduce the complexity and costs of transformation
- Prevent bottlenecks, silos, and a lack of clarity from derailing business-critical initiatives
- 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
- Course Introduction (8:43)
- Why Do We Use Systems, Models, & Frameworks For Strategy? (9:56)
- What Is An AI Strategy? (10:03)
- A Real World AI Strategy: SKTelecom (12:30)
- What Happens Without An AI Strategy? (11:33)
- McDonalds Case Study: Where Does Data & AI Strategy Start? (12:52)
- McDonalds Drive Through AI Strategy Case Study (8:54)
- Building A Data & AI Strategy (7:22)
- The Technology Model: Where To Begin? (4:34)
- Why Does The Business Need Data, Analytics, & AI Strategies (11:21)
- Data Strategy: Definition & Objectives (5:11)
- AI Strategy: Definition & Objectives (7:38)
- The Data Monetization Catalog (11:04)
- Case Study: What Happens When Technical Strategy Doesn’t Align With Business Strategy? (9:14)
- Case Study: Apple Using Data As A Competitive Advantage (5:22)
- Justifying The Need For Change (11:18)
- Why People Resist Change And How To Fix It (14:05)
- Evolutionary Decision Making (9:31)
- Introducing The Continuous Improvement Flywheel (12:03)
- Time Travel: Why What We Say Can Sound Ridiculous (10:47)
- The Implications Of AI Extending Decision Time Horizons (9:21)
- Wrapping Up And Connecting To The Business (6:27)
- Slides
- Becoming A Strategic Partner (8:49)
- Decision Support Systems & KPIs (30:02)
- The Data Science Value Stream (15:20)
- Case Study: Microsoft’s Initial AI Product Strategy (19:21)
- Capabilities Based Competition (29:57)
- Case Study: Tik Tok VS Google. Competing On Best In Class Capabilities (8:02)
- Case Study: Exploring Partnerships For Capabilities Acquisition (23:12)
- Introduction To 4 Main Business Platforms (12:38)
- Building T-Shaped Platforms With Multiple Technologies (8:07)
- SAP & OpenAI Case Studies (19:47)
- Introduction To The Capabilities Maturity Models (11:59)
- Calculating The ROI For AI Initiatives (8:29)
- ROI Calculation Exercises (13:55)
- The Product, Data, & Design Maturity Models (12:33)
- Advanced Capabilities Maturity Levels (18:55)
- Slides
- Introduction To The Assessment Framework (4:31)
- Culture (5:51)
- Leadership Commitment (5:38)
- Operations And Structure (7:37)
- Skills And Competencies (8:30)
- Analytics-Strategy Alignment (5:50)
- Proactive Market Orientation (8:27)
- Employee Empowerment (13:06)
- Opaque VS Transparent & Justifying Early Initiatives (11:37)
- Implementation Cases Introduction (5:12)
- Implementation Case: Data Strategy (7:21)
- Implementation Case: Data Monetization Catalog (16:35)
- Implementation Case: Analytics Strategy (16:47)
- Implementation Case: AI Strategy (18:46)
- Implementation Case: Transformation Strategy (10:02)
- Implementation Case: AI Governance (6:51)
- Implementation Case: Pulling 3 Concepts Together (14:06)
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.