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Business Growth Strategy
Business Growth Strategy is course 3 of 5 in the Business Strategy Specialization. This Specialization covers both the dynamics and the global aspects of strategic management. With cases drawn from leading companies like Disney, Microsoft and Zappos...
Design Thinking for Innovation
Today innovation is everyone's business. Whether you are a manager in a global corporation, an entrepreneur starting up, in a government role, or a teacher in an elementary school, everyone is expected to get lean – to do better with less. And...
Agile Development Capstone
The Capstone project provides a guided opportunity for you to practice your agile development skills. Using the venture design process that frames the four courses in this Specialization, you will apply agile processes to a project of your choice or...
Running Valuable Design Sprints
Typically, clients and managers don't want to pay for design (or strategy) but want to rush toward results. Design sprints allow you to meet clients' desire for solutions—to develop sooner—and still adjust based on feedback. B...
Strategic Planning and Execution
Avoid the pitfalls of strategy planning and execution with the tools and skills from this course. You'll learn the pillars of strategy execution—analysis, formulation, and implementation—and how to use the 4A model to effectively ap...
Tibetan Buddhist Meditation and the Modern World: Lesser Vehicle
Tibetan Buddhist Meditation and the Modern World explores the immense variety of meditation practices past and present. We present their histories, their philosophical underpinnings, their transformations in the modern global world, and we give you a...
Advanced Business Strategy
Advanced Business Strategy is course 2 of 5 in the Business Strategy Specialization. This Specialization covers both the dynamics and the global aspects of strategic management. With cases drawn from leading companies like Disney, Microsoft and Zapp...
Drive to Value with Agile Methods
In this Specialization, you'll gain an understanding and appreciation of the principles and practice of agile management. You'll learn to coordinate all aspects of the agile development process, including running design sprints, managing...
Managing an Agile Team
Traditional development processes often lead to team frustration and poor results. Agile offers a different approach to managing the complexity of software development. This course focuses on the day-to-day jobs of running a software development prog...
How Things Work: An Introduction to Physics
An introduction to physics in the context of everyday objects....
Introduction to Personal Branding
Though the concept of personal branding isn't new, questions remain about how to create one and, more importantly, what it means to maintain and inhabit that brand. Learners will: o Understand both what personal branding means and what it means...
Public Policy Challenges of the 21st Century
This course introduces class participants to the political significance and societal consequences of challenges facing U.S. and international policymakers. It is designed to help participants develop skills to analyze policy proposals and advocate fo...