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Optimize Digital Experiences with Service Blueprints in Miro
By the end of this project, you will be able to create a service blueprint that emphasizes digital experiences the customer has with a brand in Miro. Your project will uncover business opportunities by methodically mapping service touchpoints to mitigate risk to improve the customer experience. To optimize digital experiences with a service blueprint visualization, you will gain hands-on experience applying design thinking, user interface knowledge, and context from each step of the customer experience with the service in the Miro online visual collaboration platform for teamwork. Note: This course works best for learners who are based in the North America region. We’re currently working on providing the same experience in other regions.
Set the Right Strategy with BCG Matrix
In this 1-hour long project-based course, you will be able to formulate your corporate strategy with the Boston Consulting Group (BCG) Matrix. BCG matrix is a strategic decision-making framework that helps in resource allocation among different strategic business units (SBUs) by categorizing them based on their ability to generate cash inflows against cash outflows. The matrix classifies business portfolio into four categories based on industry attractiveness (growth rate of that industry), and competitive position (relative market share). The growth vs share model provides an indication of which products an organization should invest in, those they should develop, and the ones they should get rid of. The framework is a simple but powerful tool for maximizing corporate competitiveness, and sustainability by allowing them to strike the right balance between exploitation and exploration. To demonstrate the application of the BCG matrix, we will use a spreadsheet to analyze an energy services company that has five Strategic Business Units (SBUs). The example of the case study would empower you to use the model to analyze your company or any other company of your choice. The project is for business leaders who want formulate their corporate strategy with the goal of effective resource allocation. Also, for strategist who are interested in helping organization in making informed strategic decisions. At the end of the project, you will be able to use the BCG Matrix for long-term corporate strategic planning, and make effective investment decisions with your resources
Create a Customer Satisfaction Survey with Typeform
In this 1-hour long project-based course, you will learn how to design and structure a customer satisfaction survey, create it on Typeform and collect answers immediately. Note: This course works best for learners who are based in the North America region. We’re currently working on providing the same experience in other regions.
Cut Time to Production with Action Mapping in Miro
By the end of this project, you will be able to accelerate product development with action mapping. To create the action map you will gain hands-on experience identifying, defining, and prioritizing tasks with an end goal in mind to optimize the development process in the Miro online visual collaboration platform for teamwork. Note: This course works best for learners who are based in the North America region. We’re currently working on providing the same experience in other regions.
Empathy, Data, and Risk
Risk Management and Innovation develops your ability to conduct empathy-driven and data-driven analysis in the domain of risk management. This course introduces empathy as a professional competency. It explains the psychological processes that inhibit empathy-building and the processes that determine how organizational stakeholders respond to risk. The course guides you through techniques to gather risk information by understanding a stakeholder’s thoughts, feelings, and goals. These techniques include interviewing, brainstorming, and empathy mapping. The course concludes by using this risk information to enrich data analysis. You will learn basic data visualization concepts in Tableau and use these concepts to explore and explain data. Throughout these analyses, the course challenges you to identify risks by focusing on unmet stakeholder needs.
Strategy Formulation
The purpose of this course is to present, analyze and discuss the different facets of business strategy formulation. Emphasizing that strategy can be seen as a unified theme that provides coherence and direction to the actions and decisions of a firm, we will cover a variety of business strategy topics concerned with firm positioning in the context of different markets, industries and locations. At the end of the course, you will be able to: - Identify why a strong strategy is essential for the future business success - Formulate a business strategy that suits the needs and visions of your organization - Explain why managers too often formulate sub-optimal strategies - Extrapolate measures to optimize current business strategies Workload: 2-4 hours per week.
Twitter, LinkedIn, and YouTube Marketing
Digital Marketing Institute is the global standard in Digital Marketing Certification. Our mission is to give our students the confidence and knowledge they need to advance in their careers through this specialization. YouTube is second only to Facebook in popularity as a social network in 2021, with almost 2.3 billion active users. Twitter has introduced new fact-checking tools in response to recent controversies and remains a key platform for businesses striving to serve and engage audiences in real-time. LinkedIn is critical for B2B marketing, both for organic and paid social content distribution. If you want to better understand the ever-shifting landscape and challenges marketers face to grow and sustain brands on social, this course will help you do so. You will learn the basic principles of advertising on Twitter, LinkedIn, and YouTube. After completing this course, you will be able to: - • Apply best practices for publishing tweets and using hashtags on Twitter • Manage and optimize the performance of Twitter advertising campaigns • Build a company’s presence on LinkedIn • Measure the performance of LinkedIn advertising campaigns • Recognize the key role of social video and YouTube for online marketing • Create engaging advertising campaigns to run on YouTube This course also introduces the concepts of social selling and personal branding for B2B sales and marketing. It covers the differences between traditional and social selling and why businesses are adopting social selling tactics to engage with buyers. This is the final course in the Digital Marketing Institute’s Social Media Marketing specialization. On completion of all courses in your Specialization, you will also be awarded a Digital Marketing Institute Certified Digital Marketing Associate certification, along with three months of free Power Membership, allowing you to boost your career and unlock your next opportunity. 92% of DMI members have said their courses have had a positive impact on their careers, while 88% are now working at senior or manager level.
Collaborating with G Suite Apps
In this guided project, learners will learn how to collaborate using different, free G-Suite Apps, including Gmail, Google Forms, Google Calendar, a shared Google Drive, and how to work on shared documents (Docs, Sheets, Slides, etc.). This project also includes a basic overview of all of the above mentioned apps, as well as instructions on how to use these apps to facilitate collaborative projects. Note: This course works best for learners who are based in the North America region. We’re currently working on providing the same experience in other regions.
Content Strategy for Professionals: Capstone Project
The Capstone Project will let you demonstrate all that you have learned throughout the Content Strategy Specialization. It is an exciting learning experience that takes you through developing an effective Content Strategy package to meaningfully understand its scope and impact. The Capstone is centered on a fictional web startup, Wish I Was There, which aims to be the go-to travel guide for anywhere in the world using recommendations crowdsourced from local experts. While it is not a real company, the assignment you are asked to complete is similar to the work you would do in the real-world. By the time you’ve finished developing your response to this case, you will see how it directly relates to what confronts you in your own work. For the Capstone assignment, assume you have been selected to develop a Content Strategy for the section of Wish I Was There’s website for the region, people and culture where you live and work. You will need to create a visual mock-up of a webpage that appeals to the audiences you want to reach as well as a comprehensive plan to engage with them.
Marketing Channel Benefits
This course is ideal for individuals who currently work in or are targeting opportunities in consulting and strategy, industrial sales and buying, marketing management, entrepreneurship, and business development. This course will introduce you to the concept of channel benefits, which focuses on HOW customers want to buy. This is a critical first step and represents the demand side of designing routes to markets. You will learn which channel benefits are most commonly desired by customers. Finally, you will gain frameworks for how to quantify and tradeoff these benefits so as to create a range of strategic options.