IBM & Darden Digital Strategy

Artificial Intelligence (AI) is all around us, seamlessly integrated into our daily lives and work. Enroll in this course to understand key AI terminologies and applications, launch your AI career, or transform your existing one. This course covers core AI concepts, including deep learning, machine learning, and neural networks. You’ll examine generative AI models, including large language models (LLMs) and their capabilities. Further, you’ll analyze the applications of AI across domains, such as natural language processing (NLP), computer vision, and robotics, uncovering how these advancements drive innovation and use cases. The course will help you discover how AI, especially generative AI, is reshaping business and work environments. You’ll also explore emerging career opportunities in this rapidly evolving field and gain insights into ethical considerations and AI governance that shape responsible innovation. The course includes hands-on labs and a project, providing a hands-on opportunity to explore AI’s use cases and applications. You will also hear from expert practitioners about the capabilities, applications, and ethical considerations surrounding AI. This course is suitable for everyone, including professionals, enthusiasts, and students interested in learning the fundamentals of AI.

Start your cloud computing journey with this self-paced introductory course! Whether you need general cloud computing knowledge for school or business, or you are considering a career change, this beginner-friendly course is right for you. In this course you’ll learn about essential characteristics of cloud computing and emerging technologies supported by cloud. You’ll explore cloud service models, including Infrastructure as a Service (IaaS), Platform as a Service (PaaS), Software as a Service (SaaS), and Public, Private, and Hybrid deployment models. Discover the offerings of prominent cloud service providers AWS, Google, IBM, Microsoft, and others, and review cloud computing case studies. Learn about cloud adoption, blockchain, analytics, and AI. You will learn about the many components of cloud computing architecture including datacenters, availability zones, virtual machines, containers, and bare metal servers. You will also familiarize yourself with different types of cloud storage options, such as Object Storage. You’ll gain foundational knowledge of emergent cloud trends and practices including Hybrid, Multicloud, Microservices, Serverless, DevOps, Cloud Native, Application Modernization, as well as learn about cloud security and monitoring. You’ll also explore cloud computing job roles and possible career paths and opportunities. You will complete a number of labs and quizzes throughout this course to increase your understanding of course content. At the end of the course, you will complete a final project where you will deploy an application to Cloud using a serverless architecture, a valuable addition to your portfolio. After this course, check out the related courses to help you towards your new career as a cloud engineer, full stack developer, DevOps engineer, cybersecurity analyst, and others.

In this course, you will develop your ability to think strategically, analyze the competitive environment, and recommend firm positioning and value creation. We will explore the underlying theory and frameworks that provide the foundations of a successful business strategy and provide the tools you need to understand that strategy including SWOT, Competitor, Environmental, Five Forces, and Capabilities Analyses.

This course was designed to further your understanding of digital transformation so you can leverage digitization to improve business function performance. You'll learn how to build out your core digital infrastructure, with a focus on cloud computing, data integrity and digital platforms. You'll explore how digitization is transforming various business functions and organization units and learn how to identify the key drivers of and risks inherent in digital transformation, and consider the impact of emerging trends. By the end of this course, you'll be able to analyze your industry's digital transformation efforts and recommend new approaches to maximize performance.