Blockchain and other Emerging Technologies

Introduction

This GLOMACS Blockchain and other Emerging Technology training course will teach you everything you need to know to provide your management team with high-level strategic representation on digital issues for the next 12 months. It will give you enough information to understand the importance, and future impact, of a range of emerging technologies and to feel confident discussing the impact of those technologies with anyone in your organisation. You will understand the commercial, organisational, managerial, and indeed personal opportunities that these new technologies represent.

You will leave with an understanding of the challenges and opportunities that these technologies bring without getting lost in their often bewildering jargon and technical detail. After completing this course you will feel confident taking part in conversations about Blockchain and other Emerging Technology with everyone from your CEO to your most advanced technologists - and maybe even impress your friends and family with your newly acquired knowledge.

This GLOMACS training course will highlight:

• Blockchain (crypto-currencies)
• Blockchain (smart contracts)
• Artificial Intelligence
• Automation
• Social Media

Objectives

At the end of this GLOMACS training course, you will learn to:

• Understand in broad terms how each technology works
• Apply this understanding in the context of your business
• Explain the impact of new technologies to colleagues
• Analyse the likely future impact of digital technologies
• Develop this understanding as change continues

Training Methodology

This Blockchain and Other Emerging Technology training course will contain an engaging mix of core content, inspiring case studies, and group work affording the opportunity to relate the content to your own business and also to learn from other course participants.

Organisational Impact

Your organisation will gain the following valuable expertise, and timely insights, into a technological revolution that is touching every aspect of modern life:

• Strategic understanding of opportunities and threats
• Tactical responses to immediate challenges
• New managerial approaches
• How to adapt corporate culture for a connected workforce?
• Ways of increasing employee engagement and retaining staff
• Ensuring their ability to attract key talent

Personal Impact

You will finish this GLOMACS training course, confident in your ability to talk knowledgeably about the impact of new technology including:

• A knowledge of the terminology and jargon related to new technologies
• A grasp of the nature of the tools and the reasons for their impact
• A strategic view of the future impact of technology on your sector
• An ability to use online networks to remain informed and to build influence
• Awareness of possible new career choices in the future
• You will be armed against the risks to individual careers of automation and the use of AI