Karan Girotra is a Professor of Operations, Technology, and Information Management at Cornell Tech and Cornell University. He collaborates with companies building new business models in the areas of urban living, smart transportation, and e-commerce, helping them design rigorous, research-based solutions. Professor Girotra’s research team has been recognized by multiple awards, including the prestigious Wickham Skinner Early Career Research Award and multiple best paper awards. He has also won awards for his teaching on entrepreneurship and new business models, and was featured in the Poets & Quants Best 40 Under 40 business professors list. In addition to his academic work, Professor Girotra was one of the founders of TerraPass Inc., which the New York Times identified as one of the most noteworthy ideas of 2005. Since then, TerraPass has helped businesses and individuals reduce over a hundred million tons of carbon dioxide emissions. Professor Girotra holds Ph.D. and A.M. degrees from the Wharton School of the University of Pennsylvania, and a Bachelor’s degree from the Indian Institute of Technology, Delhi.
Digital
Transformation
Overview and Courses
Digital transformation isn’t just for tech startups. It’s a critical strategic focus area for today’s business leaders — and an initiative necessary for nearly every organization or venture to compete.
In this certificate program, you will learn how to find and produce new, streamlined, and disruptive business ideas through digital auditing and a rapid ideation process. Additionally, you’ll have the chance to pitch your ideas and develop a plan to rigorously test and evaluate your opportunity to ensure market suitability. By the time you complete the program, you will have developed a toolkit for the rapid ideation process as well as a strategy to move to the next step in manifesting your digital innovation concepts.
For the best experience in this program it is strongly recommended to take these courses in the order that they appear.
Using your own expertise, you will refine your list of business opportunities in stages to your three most viable ideas. Then you will enter these ideas into a peer-to-peer collaboration platform to receive feedback from the wisdom of the crowd. You will also rate each of your classmates' three best ideas. Finally, you will develop a one-minute pitch, practice it with a partner, and record it. You and your classmates will view and provide feedback on each other's pitches. By the end of this course, you will have selected your best product or service idea and prepared a polished pitch to present to stakeholders.
To be successful in this course you will need to come prepared with a list of at least 30 ideas for new products and services.
In this course, you will conduct a five-step value creation analysis using the Business Model Canvas for a product or service idea. In conjunction with this analysis, you will evaluate your idea based on your competition and your unique value proposition. You will then craft a concise statement of why your idea will work. Finally, you will gather feedback from your peers and professionals in the industry to determine where you need to iterate your product or service idea. By the end of this course, you will have a validated Business Model Canvas for your concept.
To be successful in this course you will need to come prepared with an idea for a new product or service.
In this course, you will design a testing plan for your product or service. You will choose an experimental strategy such as prototyping or pilots for collecting real-world data. Then, you will formulate your experiment to ensure reliable results while being conscious of accuracy and cost. You will identify what success looks like for your product or service and develop metrics to test those factors. By the end of the course, you will be prepared to test your prototype or pilot and evaluate how your product or service idea needs to improve.
To be successful in this course you will need to come prepared with a loose plan for a new product or service.
In this course, you will investigate different strategies to reduce the impact of unknowns and other risk factors on the successful deployment of your product or service idea. You will identify and evaluate a sequence of operational tasks to develop your product or service. Your task sequence will then undergo a peer review to inform the necessary changes to reduce risk and make your plan more viable. You will leave this course with a validated strategy for the development of your new product or service where risk has been reduced.
To be successful in this course you will need to come prepared with a loose plan for a new product or service.
How It Works
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- Conduct a digital audit for your company or venture
- Identify what innovation should look like and identify gaps
- Develop a mindset to rapidly generate opportunities for digital transformation
- Use digital business model transformation templates to generate ideas
- Conduct a value creation analysis
- Develop a validated Business Model Canvas for your concept
- Identify a risk-limiting path to develop your idea
- Develop an action plan to implement digital innovation
Download a Brochure
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- Digital Transformation Certificate from Cornell Tech
- 70 Professional Development Hours (7 CEUs)
Who Should Enroll
- Business leaders
- Technology leaders including CTOs
- Entrepreneurs
{Anytime, anywhere.}
Digital Transformation
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