Cisco Leadership Course Webinar: Artificial Intelligence – Opportunity or Threat for SMEs?
Category:Management
Course Level Startup
Webinar Session
Wednesday, March 27, 2019
10.00 AM (ID, TH, VN)
11:00 AM (MY, PH, SG)
From Apple’s Siri and Amazon Alexa to Telsa’s self-driving cars, we are seeing more Artificial Intelligence (AI) technologies at work in business and daily living. Despite the seeming proliferation, it is still in the very early stages of development and because of that complex, time and resource consuming. Facing limited data, limited resources, and limited data science talent, is Artificial Intelligence – an opportunity or threat for SMEs?
Why Join the Webinar?
AI has already impact on competition, customer experience and is evolving extremely fast. Whether to adopt it or just want to prepare for its impact on our business, SMEs need to understand the consequences and changes AI is bringing into our environment. Find out about:
- AI fundamentals for business leaders
- Differentiate facts from fiction in terms of AI capability
- Understanding business benefits of AI (use case examples)
- What differentiates us in an AI centric world
About the speaker:
Robert Schaffner
Robert Schaffner is a native Austrian and has lived and worked in Austria, Germany, Australia, and currently makes his home in Singapore. He started his career as a technologist 25 years ago at Siemens. In 2006, he co-founded Avodaq, a German IT system integrator. He co-founded the collaboration software company, Andtek, in 2011, which he later sold. Robert’s passion is teaching leaders, sales teams, and organizations how to have impact on individuals, organizations, and society.
He has just written a book with Pat Bodin and the title of the book is Get In the Boat – A Journey to Relevance.
Trademarks, Industrial Designs and Geographical Indications
Category:Operations
Course Level Growing
Course developed by:
Course Description
Provides a detailed coverage of trademarks, industrial designs and geographical indications and their role in trade and international commerce. Additionally, the course covers the protection and management of brands. There is a written final exam at the end of this course for which participants are required to compose written responses to a series of questions within a specified timeframe and submit their responses, via the eLearning platform, to their tutors for marking.
Learning Objectives
Understand how to make the best use of IP in marketing and how to manage the intangible assets of a private company.
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.
Finding Funding
Category:Operations
Course Level Startup
Course Summary
How can you find funding to start or grow your business?
Explore sources for start-up funds for your business. Identify which sources are the best match for your needs and learn what to consider before you apply. Explore how to search the Internet to find potential funders and then bookmark sites you find using social bookmarking. Finally, learn how to download and print applications for funding.
In this course, you will learn how to:
Find sources for start-up funds
Identify the sources that are best for your business needs
Use social bookmarking
Download and print applications
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
Visa: Practical Business Skills
Category:Technology
Course Level Growing
Course Summary
Visa sees micro and small businesses as the backbone of the global economy. Our goal is to empower these enterprises and improve their livelihoods, ultimately creating a ripple effect throughout their communities. With greater financial and business knowledge, micro and small entrepreneurs can better manage their money and make confident, informed decisions about their businesses.
Visa’s Practical Business Skills offers free educational resources and interactive tools to help business owners around the globe start, manage and grow their businesses to help their communities prosper. Practical Business Skills offers visitors access to an up-to-date online library of interactive content, quizzes, video lessons and infographics as well as customizable business templates.
For more information, contact: info@practicalbusinessskills.com
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.
Effective Presentations
Category:Operations
Course Level Startup
Course Summary
How can you create effective and targeted slide presentations?
Learn how to create slide presentations that are well-designed and targeted to particular audiences. Make sure that you express what you want to say clearly, through the use of effective text, images, and examples.
In this course, you will learn how to:
Determine what information is relevant to a particular audience
Create effective and well-designed slide presentations
Cloud-Native Development with SAP Cloud Platform
Category:Technology
Course Level Growing
Course Description
SAP Cloud Platform is the enterprise platform-as-a-service, with comprehensive application development services and capabilities. It enables customers to achieve business agility, create a truly integrated and optimized enterprise, and accelerate digital transformation across the business – all without the requirement of maintaining or investing in on-premise infrastructure.
In this new advanced course, you’ll learn how to develop microservice-based cloud-native applications with SAP Cloud Platform through hands-on exercises. You’ll be working primarily with the Cloud Foundry environment within SAP Cloud Platform and many of its open-source services to develop step-by-step a Java-based application that is made for the cloud.
We’ll start with a theoretical introduction to SAP Cloud Platform and microservice architectures. We will also cover Spring basics and introduce the sample application with which we will be working throughout the course for the hands-on exercises. In the following weeks, we’ll go deeper into how to create a microservice, how to connect a database, how to handle logging and tracing, as well as service-to-service communication, how to ensure security, and additional topics like multitenancy, continuous integration and delivery, Spring Boot and advanced microservice design. In between we will also cover topics like REST services, stateless apps, Cloud Foundry as a platform, unit and component testing, and much more. In the hands-on exercises we will start based on an empty shell application and build a full real-world cloud application. The optional system preparation with instructions on setting up the development environment and some information to get started will open two weeks before the actual course start.
This advanced course is primarily aimed at developers and application and technology consultants who have already finished the openSAP course SAP Cloud Platform Essentials (Update Q3/2017) and want to learn more. For the first time, we’ll cover in-depth microservice architectures and the open-source services of the Cloud Foundry environment within SAP Cloud Platform, and how to leverage them to build cloud-native applications.
As this course focuses in detail on the app level, the backend and how to offer REST services, topics like building SAP Fiori UIs with SAPUI5 are not covered. To learn about those topics please have a look at the great openSAP courses Developing Web Apps with SAPUI5 and SAP Fiori for iOS – Build Your First Native Mobile App.
Also, database development for SAP HANA is not covered in this course, please refer to the openSAP course Software Development on SAP HANA (Update Q4/2017) to learn more about that.
The registration, learning content, and final exam are free of charge. You’ll be able to get some practical experience of the platform by using a free trial account. We’ll explain how you can access this in the System Preparation.
To enroll in this course, please click the ‘Course Content‘ to be directed to the openSAP course website.
Course Benefits
Join this free online course, Cloud-Native Development with SAP Cloud Platform, to learn and experience how microservice-based cloud native development with SAP Cloud Platform works. This is an advanced course aimed primarily at developers and application and technology consultants, teaching hands-on the important concepts of developing innovative cloud applications.
Setting Prices
Category:Marketing
Course Level Startup
Course Summary
How do I set prices for my products or services?
Explore how to price your products and services effectively. Learn how to use word processing software to customize tables that help track information you gather to set your prices. Learn what research to complete to determine prices for your products and services.
In this course, you will learn how to:
Set prices for products and services
Use word processing software to customize tables
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.
Cash Flow
Category:Finance/ Accounting
Course Level Startup
Course Summary
How can keeping track of your cash flow help your business?
Explore how to monitor and track your cash flow. Learn how to customize a spreadsheet to track your cash flow. Learn why cash flow is important to your business, and how to make decisions based on the research and results you gather.
In this course, you will learn how to:
Make decisions about how to manage your cash
Use spreadsheet software to track your cash flow
Marketing Benefits vs Features
Category:Marketing
Course Level Startup
Course Summary
How can you effectively promote the benefits of your products or services?
Learn how to effectively promote the advantages of your products or services to your target audience in order to help you increase sales. Learn how to use templates to create marketing materials.
In this course, you will learn how to:
Understand the difference between the benefits and features of your products or services and effectively promote them to your target market
Use online templates to create a flyer for your business
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.
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.
Understanding the Concepts of AI and ML
Category:Technology
Course Level Growing
Course Description
This course describes the concept of AI and ML. The course provides a detailed description about the scope and need of AI and helps to understand the impact of AI in enabling human progress and transforming business. The course explains the concepts of artificial intelligence, machine learning, and deep learning.
Course Objective
- Describe the impact and scope of artificial intelligence
- Explain the concepts of artificial intelligence and machine learning
- List the challenges and the application of artificial intelligence
- Describe the concepts of machine learning, deep learning, and neural network
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.
Design Thinking and Challenge Management
Category:Technology
Course Level Startup
Course Description
Design Thinking and Challenge Management combine techniques that foster an innovation culture in companies with a human-centric approach.
Ongoing digitization sets totally new standards every day and brings a lot of new requirements to economies, businesses, and people. The digital transformation is changing society and is evident all around us.
Innovation cycles have accelerated massively and require a different behavior than in the past. Agile innovation is the prerequisite for success. Organizational changes have to be accompanied by personal or individual change, as digital transformation is only effective and successful in an enterprise when personal transformation happens in parallel.
Well-established methodologies and concepts have to be combined with new concepts that fit into today’s world. Design Thinking is a proven methodology that SAP offers to customers, but also uses itself to support out-of-the-box thinking and the development of new innovation approaches in an agile, fast, and structured way. With Challenge Management by Dr. Wladimir Klitschko, we invite people and organizations to experience a concept that complements agile corporate methodologies such as Design Thinking with meaningful personal strategies that enable people to confidently deal with the challenges arising from change.
To enroll in this course, please click the ‘Course Content‘ to be directed to the openSAP course website.
Course Benefits
Join this free online course with Dr. Wladimir Klitschko to learn about his Challenge Management philosophy and how the combination with Design Thinking fosters innovation on an enterprise and personal level. Coupling both methodologies provides professionals with the tools and methods to transform and innovate the businesses they are working in, and to develop personal skills to face the challenges that arise with digital transformation.
Your Target Audience
Category:Marketing
Course Level Startup
Course Summary
Who is your target audience?
Explore how you can gather information about your customers and potential customers. Learn how to focus your actions on maximizing your impact on that target audience.
In this course, you will learn how to:
Craft questions to learn more about your customers
Create an online survey to gather information about your customers
Customer Relationship Management (CRM)
Category:Marketing
Course Level Startup
Course Summary
How can a customer relationship management (CRM) tool help me to build my business?
Learn how to build your business by using a customer relationship management (CRM) tool. Learn how you can better keep track of information about your customers and potential customers, allowing you to build your business.
In this course, you will learn how to:
Set up a CRM tool for your business
Use the CRM tool to track information that will help you build your business
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.
Google Cloud Training
Category:Technology
Course Level Growing
Course Summary
Enhance your resume with new certification. Google Cloud Certifications proves your proficiency to transform businesses with Google Cloud technology.