Digital Lifestyles
Category:Technology
Course Level Startup
Course Description
From cell phones to MP3 players to digital cameras, computers are changing our everyday lives. This course introduces you to digital technologies, including digital audio, digital video, and digital photography. It explores how these and other computing technologies are creating new career opportunities and shaping the world we live in.
Course Benefits
Digital technology is used in all areas of life today. It has changed the way people work and entertain themselves. This module explains the scope of digital technology at home, at work, and at play. It also identifies the different career opportunities made available because of the extensive use of computers in various fields.
Introducing Data Science and Big Data Analytics for Business Transformation
Category:Technology
Course Level Growing
Course Description
Businesses are increasingly looking to take advantage of Big Data to be competitive. To do this, organizations need data-savvy business leaders who can identify opportunities to solve business problems using advanced analytics. This course provides business leaders with a baseline understanding of Data Science and Big Data. Specifically, it addresses: illustrative examples of Data Science and Big Data Analytics in three industry verticals, deriving business value from Big Data, characteristics of Big Data, and key elements to consider for driving the change toward Big Data projects.
Course Objective
- Discuss examples of Big Data analytics in several vertical markets
- Articulate the business value and benefits of Big Data
- Distinguish between the techniques for Business Intelligence and Data Science
- Define Big Data and identify the main catalysts of Big Data
Course Developer
Dell Technologies helps organizations and individuals build their digital future and transform how they work, live and play. The company provides customers with the industry’s broadest and most innovative technology and services portfolio for the data era.
Small Business Owners Training
Category:Operations
Course Level Growing
About this Course:
The Small Business Owners (SB) training builds on the key principles of business to develop the competencies needed for managing operations and making improvements. The emphasis is not on producing fully worked revisions of written business plans but on supporting business owners to develop the skills for assessing different business strategies and identifying practical improvements. The SB training is designed for individuals that have existing enterprises, particularly those that have been recently established or those that have faced difficulties.
After completing the training, participants will better understand how a business operates, how to assess different business strategies, and how to collaborate with others to promote their businesses success. Participants will have a new skill set and confidence to take action, make decisions and plan for the future of their businesses or prospective businesses.
The SB is part of Community-Based Enterprise Development (C-BED), a low cost, innovative training program designed by the International Labour Organization (ILO) to support skills development and empowerment in local communities for improvements in livelihoods, productivity and working conditions.
Available Lessons:
- Overview of the programme
- Introductions
- Better Marketing
- Improving Productivity
- Improving Quality
- Bookkeeping
- Understanding Costs
- Action Planning
Eligible for Certification: Yes
Primer on Intellectual Property
Category:Operations
Course Level Growing
Course developed by:
Course Description
This course covers the fundamental aspects of intellectual property (IP): copyright and related rights, trademarks, patents, geographical indications, and industrial designs. It also covers contemporary issues impacting the IP field such as: new plant varieties, unfair competition, enforcement of IP rights and emerging issues in IP.
Learning Objectives
Familiarization with the different types of IP, how to enforce your IP rights if infringed
Course Developer
The World Intellectual Property Organization (WIPO) is the global forum for intellectual property (IP) services, policy, information, and cooperation. A self-funding agency of the United Nations, with 193 member states, WIPO’s mission is to lead the development of a balanced and effective international IP system that enables innovation and creativity for the benefit of all. Through the WIPO Academy, WIPO offers a range of online training courses designed to introduce business owners, students, IP professionals and government officers to the various forms of IP.
Sales Forecasting
Category:Marketing
Course Level Startup
Course Summary
How can you gather the right information to forecast sales for your business?
Learn why sales forecasting is important for your business and how to gather information to make a sales forecast. Learn how to customize a spreadsheet to track your sales forecast. Learn how to gather the important information needed to create your sales forecast.
In this course, you will learn how to:
Gather information to make a sales forecast for your business
Use spreadsheet software to track your sales forecast
Introduction to Inclusive Business
Category:Management
Course Level Growing
Course Description
This general introductory course imparts basic knowledge on inclusive business, its definition and features. The course also sets the parameters of the Inclusive Business’ target groups and how they are involved in the value chain. It outlines the different sectors where the BoP is engaged, identifies different IB approaches and illustrates the inclusive business ecosystem. Overall, the intro course makes the case for inclusive business and highlights IB’s positive impact on the SDGs.
Course Objective
In this course, you will develop a deep understanding of what Inclusive Business is. And recognize the relevance of Inclusive Business to connect with investors, policymakers, and low-income communities.
Course Developer
The Inclusive Business Action Network (iBAN) – a programme funded by the German Federal Ministry for Economic Cooperation and Development and the European Union and implemented by the Deutsche Gesellschaft für Internationale Zusammenarbeit (GIZ) GmbH.
The Inclusive Business Action Network (iBAN) is a global initiative supporting the scaling and replication of inclusive business models. Through its strategic pillars iBAN blue and iBAN weave, iBAN manages an innovative online knowledge platform on inclusive business (www.inclusivebusiness.net) and offers a focused Capacity Development Programme for policymakers and investment seeking companies in developing and emerging countries.
iBAN creates a space where evidence-based knowledge transforms into learning and new partnerships. With its focus on promoting the upscale of inclusive business models and consequently improving the lives of the poor, iBAN is actively contributing to the achievement of the United Nations Sustainable Development Goals.
Selling Online
Category:Finance/ Accounting
Course Level Startup
Course Summary
How can you create effective online marketplace listings for your products?
Learn how to maximize the use of selling online in your business. Learn how to create effectively put together online listings for your products. Explore how you can use photo-editing software to improve your product photos and advertisements.
In this course, you will learn how to:
Create effective titles, descriptions, and photographs for your online product listing
Improve your products’ photographs using photo-editing software
Computer Basics
Category:Technology
Course Level Startup
Course Description
Computing has become a very integral part of everyday life in the twenty-first century. From music and photos to banking and communicating, computers have changed the way we work and live.
This course introduces you to the fundamentals of computing, explains the components of a computer, explores operating system basics, and shows you how to use a mouse and a keyboard. Also explains how computers can be used in different aspects of life.
Course Benefits
Computers are used in every field. They help organizations and individuals to conduct business transactions efficiently and quickly. Today, one of the basic skills necessary to succeed at a workplace is to know how to use the computer. To be able to get better jobs, you need to know how to use a computer.
All About Marketing Automation – What it is & Why it works
Category:Technology
Course Level Startup
Course Description
Hear how you can respond to prospective buyers anywhere and everywhere, at any moment in time with triggered campaigns–from scoring specific actions to prioritizing leads for sales to creating timely emails from website visits.
Minimizing the Risk of Fraud
Category:Technology
Course Level Growing
About this Course:
Learners will be introduced to the ways to minimize the risk of fraud. Clients prize Baker & McKenzie for its breadth of access to markets, as it can individually guide cross-border transactions without using external local counsel.
Learners will be acquainted to common email scam including information on phishing, and malware/ransomware. The course will also provide information how to prevent and minimize fraud.
Instructors:
Susan Kendall, Partner, Hong Kong
Course Type: Self-Paced
Lesson Length: 20 minutes
IP Panorama
Category:Operations
Course Level Growing
Course developed by:
Course Description
This learning resource is specifically designed to help SMEs utilize and manage IP in their business strategy and deal with the wide range of IP issues from a business perspective.
Learning Objectives
Familiarization with the different types of IP, how to commercially exploit an IP asset, various aspects of IP management
Course Developer
The World Intellectual Property Organization (WIPO) is the global forum for intellectual property (IP) services, policy, information, and cooperation. A self-funding agency of the United Nations, with 193 member states, WIPO’s mission is to lead the development of a balanced and effective international IP system that enables innovation and creativity for the benefit of all. Through the WIPO Academy, WIPO offers a range of online training courses designed to introduce business owners, students, IP professionals and government officers to the various forms of IP.
Productivity Programs
Category:Technology
Course Level Startup
Course Description
Productivity programs are tools that you can use to create documents, presentations, tables, charts, and graphs. This course explores the most common productivity software applications used in business, in education, and at home. In this course, you will learn the features of various productivity programs such as word processing software, spreadsheets, presentation software, and databases. You will also learn how to select the right software to cater to your needs.
Course Benefits
Productivity programs are used in business for schedules, resumes, business plans, and more. These programs are widely known and used on a daily basis. In school, students are using these applications to write essays, create presentations, and organize their schedule. High Schools and Colleges have started demanding a typed final essay for a grade; forming these applications into a vital part of education. Others may use the applications at home for any other tasks, making these applications a universal tool.
Tool for Entrepreneurship and Innovation
Category:Operations
Course Level Startup
About this Course:
This Entrepreneurship and Innovation (EI) training is designed for individuals that have existing enterprises, particularly those that have been recently established or those that have identified problems.
After EI training, participants will better understand how to innovate through an innovative process, and how to use the tools presented to spend time on innovating within their businesses. Participants will have a new skill set and confidence to think creatively, come up with innovative ideas and test these with people in and outside their business.
The EI is part of Community-Based Enterprise Development (C-BED), a low cost, innovative training program designed by the International Labour Organization (ILO) to support skills development and empowerment in local communities for improvements in livelihoods, productivity and working conditions.
Available Lessons:
- Overview of the programme
- Introductions
- What is Innovation
- Creative Thinking
- Problem Definition
- Create Ideas
- Filter
- Pilot
- Action Plan
Eligible for Certification: Yes
Effective Leadership
Category:Human Resources
Course Level Startup
Course Summary
Discover different leadership approaches and understand when and how to use them to be a more effective leader. Learn how to become a stronger and more effective leader in all aspects of business.
In this course, you will learn how to:
Assess which leadership approaches are appropriate for different situations
Use desktop or mobile software to collaborate and communicate more productively as a leader
How to Increase Your Business in the US Market for Electrified Furniture
Category:Trade/ Logistics
Course Level Ready to Export
Course Description
Join UL experts to gain insight into the U.S. market for electrified furniture.
Administer Salesforce from Anywhere During COVID19
Category:Technology
Course Level Growing
Course Description
Learn how to manage users and data, secure your org, and create actionable reports while working from home.
Course Objective
After completing this unit, you’ll be able to:
- Stay connected and succeed while working from home during COVID-19.
- Learn how to collaborate with distributed teams and manage remote employees.
- Set up users and control how they can view or edit your business data.
- Control access to data using point-and-click security tools.
- Clean up data with validation rules, formula fields, lookup filters, and Process Builder.
- Track key business information for your stakeholders with reports and dashboards.
Course Developer
Salesforce is the #1 CRM, bringing companies and customers together in the digital age. Founded in 1999, Salesforce enables companies of every size and industry to take advantage of powerful technologies — cloud, mobile, social, voice, and artificial intelligence — to connect to their customers in a whole new way. They are coming to us as their trusted advisor, and together we are transforming their businesses around the customer.
Salesforce Customer 360 is our vision for how we help customers with their digital transformations. With Customer 360, all your teams — marketing, sales, service, commerce, IT, and analytics — have a single view of customer data on an integrated CRM platform powered by AI. Collaboration is easier, so employees can work together to build lasting, trusted relationships and deliver the intelligent, personalised experiences their customers expect.
Salesforce is committed to a set of core values — trust, customer success, innovation, and equality of every human being. Salesforce is one of the leaders on Fortune’s Change the World list, and has been one of Fortune’s 100 Best Companies to Work For, for twelve years in a row. For information, please visit www.salesforce.com.
Furniture Safety Requirements for the US Market
Category:Trade/ Logistics
Course Level Ready to Export
Course Description
The U.S. market has specific safety requirements for testing and certification of furniture sold in the U.S.The requirements include stability, electrical and flammability conditions.
Join UL, an authority on product safety, for an overview on how UL Standards and Certifications demonstrate that furniture complies with U.S. requirements.
The Internet and the World Wide Web
Category:Technology
Course Level Startup
Course Description
The Internet can connect you to people, information, and resources around the world. This course shows you how to connect to the Internet, browse webpages and websites, use search engines, and communicate with others using email, instant messaging, blogs, and other media.
Course Benefits
The Internet has changed the way people communicate with each other. You can access and use various services related to finding information, communicating, and conducting business on the Internet.
Email Marketing: Engage Your Audience with Personalized Emails at Scale
Category:Marketing
Course Level Startup
Course Description
Engage your audience with personalized emails at scale.
Sustainability through Digital Transformation
Category:Technology
Course Level Growing
Course Description
Digitization is the word on everyone’s lips. Businesses, governments, and other public organizations are busy trying to define their own digital roadmap. But how is this connected with sustainability? Events like the United Nations Conference on Climate Change in Paris or the World Economic Forum in Davos made it clear that if businesses want to survive, they have to learn how to become sustainable. And digitization plays a key role in enabling this. “Sustainability through Digital Transformation” allows you to explore the opportunities digitization offers to further drive sustainability. The course shows how the power of technology can help companies become more successful and at the same time contribute to the United Nations Sustainable Development Goals.
Together, we’ll explore opportunities to master the “Fourth Industrial Revolution”. We’ll look at examples of how to leverage digital innovation to transform industry sectors, including health, mobility, financial services, and education for the better.
To enroll in this course, please click the ‘Course Content‘ to be directed to the openSAP course website.
Course Benefits
Join this free open online course, Sustainability Through Digital Transformation, to explore how companies can embrace the opportunities that are arising. In this course, you’ll learn about the evolution of sustainability within organizations in the areas of integrated reporting, social and environmental impact creation, and responsible investment. You’ll become familiar with recent sustainability frameworks, including the SDGs (Sustainable Development Goals), and gain an understanding of how digitization can enable companies to become more successful while contributing to the SDGs.