32 courses in partnership with global institute for it management

This 4-course Certificate is designed for

•  the IT professional with 10+ years’ of experience who is moving up in their career.
•  senior level IT executives/consultants that require important management & leadership skills.
•  the business (non-IT) professional looking to understand how to leverage their IT investment.

This 4-course Certificate is designed for

This Certificate gives participants the tools necessary to examine opportunities for leveraging IT in government (Federal, State, and Regional), government agencies, and social institutions in our society, to bring about demonstrable value added change. The certificate combines the theory and practice of government, politics, and policy-making along with trends in information technology for those who desire to make a significant difference.

This 4-course Certificate is designed for

The purpose of this certificate is to help organizations meet the increased demand for information security professionals by preparing attendees via a comprehensive practical set of courses addressing the entire IT infrastructure (e.g., data, network, web, applications, systems), as well as the essential management, organizational, and legal  considerations.

-  The Cloud Computing Certificate will prepare IT professionals with the strategic, tactical, and operational competencies necessary to prepare their organization to leverage this important approach for supporting IT infrastructure. While today most organizations are typically concerned about individual technologies (e.g., security, data, networks, applications, architecture) others recognize the more complex integration issues, including organizational and sourcing considerations; which is the focus of this certificate.

-  Industry leaders are taking advantage of the flexibility afforded by the dynamic capabilities inherent with Clouds and opportunities to use IT resources to focus on more strategic business initiatives; the pioneers are looking to leverage Clouds to enable more extensive seamless collaboration in an ever growing virtual world, including considerations for deriving a strategy, sourcing (including skills and H/R), governance, and organizational reporting.

 -  The integration of emerging technologies (e.g., SMAC, IoT, Cognitive Computing, AI, Blockchain, Robotics Process Automation) and the importance of Cloud will be the focus of all of the courses in this Certificate.

The courses in this certificate will address the technical considerations for implementing and integrating the information technologies that are required to have a successful/valuable big data/business analytics/knowledge management strategy across the enterprise, including robotics process automation, Cognitive Computing, AI (Artificial Intelligence), Blockchain, IoT (internet of things), Bring-Your-Own-Infrastructure, SMAC (Social, Mobile, Business Analytics, and Cloud), and security. 

The courses in this certificate will focus on strategic data management matters such as governance, organizational/reporting, sourcing (including skills and human resources), security, legal, and building an integrated IT-business data strategy (including data, analytics, cognitive computing, robotics process automation, blockchain, legacy systems, etc.), as well as considerations for effectively starting/introducing a technology versus scaling up the use of the technology. 

Social media are fundamentally transforming every aspect of our political, social, and business lives. The enterprise of the future will inevitably be social, within and in the way it relates to its external value ecosystems. There is significant evidence of enterprises using Social Technologies effectively to transform their business and relationships with their customers and partners. The objective is to provide a seamless collaborative environment.

This certificate explores real-life examples and experiences from the field, to confirm the transformational potential of social business. The certificate will cover emerging opportunities and best practices in creating the social enterprise of the future, and how IT can be instrumental in leading their enterprise as they realize the promise of social business.

Candidates new to IT that have experience in other areas (e.g., another part of the business, job change, returning veterans) who are looking to take advantage of the strong demand for IT professionals

Hiring, retaining, motivating, compensating, benefits, assessing, eliminating, and skills development are fundamental to every organization.  Compounding the importance and challenges of HR are the dynamics of the economy, diversity (e.g., sex, age ethnicity) of the workforce,  sourcing alternatives, and the impact of emerging information technologies.

This 4-course certificate is geared for the IT manager looking to improve their HR effectiveness. It is also geared for the HR professional interested in leveraging emerging technologies and improving their knowledge of the different aspects for supporting IT.

The certificate will make candidates proficient in the strategic, tactical, and operational considerations of IT infrastructure/architecture by providing candidates with the vocabulary of modern enterprise systems and architectures, the techniques for defining them, the considerations for integrating them, the analytics for assessing them, and considerations for managing them.

Understanding emerging information technologies and their impact on enhancing business processes, and the roles and responsibilities of IT and non-IT stakeholders in leveraging these emerging technologies in light of the digital transformation will be at the heart of all of the courses.

This certificate provides a perspective on the global IT legal environment and the best management practices in responding to it, with heavy emphasis on emerging information technologies (e.g., blockchain, AI, Robotics Process Automation, IoT). 

It will be of widespread interest to IT practitioners and vendors, especially service providers, managers of IT ventures, senior managers with responsibility for implementing IT solutions enterprise wide, security officers, and IT consultants.

The cadre of candidates for this program includes attorneys, compliance officers and IT and non-IT managers responsible for solutions bearing on compliance with regulatory requirements and discovery requests. 

The faculty that teaches these courses are usually practicing attorneys that have experience with the respective "global/local" regulations/laws.