Business Transformation with Google Cloud

What is cloud technology or data science and what’s all the hype about? More importantly, what can it do for you, your team, and your business? If you want to learn about cloud technology so you can excel in your role, help build the future of your business and thrive in the cloud era, then the Business Transformation with Google Cloud course is for you. Through this interactive training, you’ll learn about core cloud business drivers—specifically Google’s cloud—and gain the knowledge/skills to determine if business transformation is right for you and your team, and build short and long-term projects using the “superpowers” of cloud accordingly. You’ll also find several templates, guides, and resource links through the supplementary student workbook to help you build a custom briefing document to share with your leadership, technical teams or partners.

Primary Audience: Business decision-makers: directors (managers of managers), managers of individual contributors (ICs) or ICs working in non-IT functions/divisions (such as finance, marketing, sales, HR, product design) interested in understanding the applications of Google’s cloud technology for business improvement opportunities and transformational project(s).

• Explain what cloud technology is and the top reasons the cloud era is revolutionizing business

• Craft an ideal transformation challenge for your organization

• Identify components of a security program to build into your transformation journey

• Build a business case and summary page for your overall transformation project using the templates provided

Syllabus

Syllabus - What you will learn from this course
Week 1
Introduction
Module 1: Why cloud technology is revolutionizing business
Here we’ll go over the course structure, introduce speakers, and breakdown of content per module.
Module 2: Foster an innovation culture
This module introduces cloud technology as a paradigm shift and explains how it’s irrevocably transforming business globally. It defines the fundamental building blocks of cloud technology—compute power and data—and what they mean for you and your business. And finally, it reveals how these building blocks help to create five superpowers using concrete use cases of their transformative abilities for business, education, and government sectors.
Module 3: Define the ideal business transformation challenge
Cloud is not just about a technological transformation; it’s a business and cultural transformation, too. This module explores how the superpowers of the cloud are brought to life through people. It looks specifically at how to organically create and scale innovation through culture and business practices. It offers key principles, drawing examples from Google’s success and real world scenarios, that you can apply in your day-to-day operations.
Module 4: Build trust with availability, security, and compliance
Previous modules describe the journey with cloud technology to include business and cultural changes as well. This module sets the groundwork to build a transformational solution using cloud technology for your role or your business. This process starts with distinguishing between scaled improvements and transformations. Next, the module demonstrates how to write an ideal challenge question and use insights generated from a data ecosystem to address the challenge. Finally, it introduces a framework that you can use to assess and refine your challenge ideas, preparing you to build a business case in a later module.
Module 5: Build a business case for your transformation challenge
This module addresses common concerns about data privacy and security when migrating to the cloud. It defines key terms - privacy, security, compliance, and reliability - and reveals today’s top cybersecurity challenges and threats. It discusses how data security and compliance can be maintained when data is in the cloud, as illustrated by the Shared Responsibility Model. And finally, it uses a concrete example to explain how learners can build a high-level security program in their own organization.
Conclusion

FAQ

When will I have access to the lectures and assignments?

Access to lectures and assignments depends on your type of enrollment. If you take a course in audit mode, you will be able to see most course materials for free. To access graded assignments and to earn a Certificate, you will need to purchase the Certificate experience, during or after your audit. If you don't see the audit option:

The course may not offer an audit option. You can try a Free Trial instead, or apply for Financial Aid.

The course may offer 'Full Course, No Certificate' instead. This option lets you see all course materials, submit required assessments, and get a final grade. This also means that you will not be able to purchase a Certificate experience.

What will I get if I subscribe to this Specialization?

When you enroll in the course, you get access to all of the courses in the Specialization, and you earn a certificate when you complete the work. Your electronic Certificate will be added to your Accomplishments page - from there, you can print your Certificate or add it to your LinkedIn profile. If you only want to read and view the course content, you can audit the course for free.

Is financial aid available?

Yes. In select learning programs, you can apply for financial aid or a scholarship if you can’t afford the enrollment fee. If fin aid or scholarship is available for your learning program selection, you’ll find a link to apply on the description page.

Reviews

It is a good opportunity to learn new things and with this course I learned so many things how the society is going all the environment and communicating with each and other in the business

Very useful for management professions like me who are getting introduced to era of cloud transformation. Thank you for wonderful curriculum and exercises.

Definitely an all-round course if you want to know how you can use the cloud or cloud tech to improve your business, your workplace, your mindset or anywhere productive

A good introductory guide to developing business case for digital transformation with Google cloud technology. Could have essential information on how data capturing on social media is being consumed