While having over a 10-year history, Blockchain is still actively evolving to where it is now emerging as an important technology across every industry. With all of the buzzwords flying around, it can still be difficult to separate Blockchain hype from business reality. The purpose of this course is to prepare IT and non-IT managers for creating effective Blockchain strategies and plans that leverage Blockchain for competitive advantage. The focus of this course will be on learning the essentials of Blockchain, preparing Management Professionals to lead industry current and future business application initiatives, and deriving Blockchain deployment strategies, business cases, and plans, as well as considerations for organizational structure, sourcing, security, legal, and governance processes.
Through an engaging mix of understanding the current and emerging Blockchain technologies, business insights, industry examples, and their impact on the business, the learning journey will bring into sharp focus the reality of contemporary Blockchain and how it can be harnessed to support representative cross industry as well as industry specific (e.g. Finance, Retail, Healthcare) applications.
Focusing on essential Blockchain and related technologies, such as smart contracts, oracles, identity, consensus and tokenization, this course will help candidates understand the implications of these new technologies for strategic business initiatives, as well as the economic and societal issues they address. The course will also examine how Blockchain will complement and strengthen the workforce, how roles may change in an organization ecosystem including considerations for governance, sourcing, security, and organizational considerations, and the overarching potential that Block chain can have on every industry.
Additionally, the course will emphasize how the power of the network and distributed computers can solve business problems that not long ago were impossible.
Upon completion of this course IT and non-IT candidates will be prepared to deliver an organizational Blockchain strategy that addresses specific technology management and organizational aspects for ensuring successful deployment of Blockchain.
