Learning objectives:
After completing the course, the student is able to:
* analyse the on-going changes in online and consumer behaviour, customer requirements, ICT markets and technological development;
* evaluate key enabling web-based and other information technologies and become an effective participant in web-enabled business endeavours and initiatives;
* design ways for leveraging information and communication technologies to improve intra- and inter-organisational processes and enhance a firm’s competitive position;
* plan ways for searching innovations; and
* develop his/her skills for building careers and taking advantage of entrepreneurial opportunities through emerging technologies, in particular related to the web.
Contents overview
* A shift in thinking about the web and emerging technologies
* How the social web is transforming businesses, software design, our perception of people as well as skills required of us
* How to accelerate innovation creation through web-based and other emerging technologies: Ecosystem thinking, strategies, core business values
* Transformation of the social web into humanized web
12 lectures
4 exercises
Exam (closed book) on: Oinas-Kukkonen H. & Oinas-Kukkonen H.: Humanizing the Web: Change and Social Innovation. Palgrave Macmillan, Basingstoke, UK, 2013 (required reading)
After completing the course, the student is able to:
* analyse the on-going changes in online and consumer behaviour, customer requirements, ICT markets and technological development;
* evaluate key enabling web-based and other information technologies and become an effective participant in web-enabled business endeavours and initiatives;
* design ways for leveraging information and communication technologies to improve intra- and inter-organisational processes and enhance a firm’s competitive position;
* plan ways for searching innovations; and
* develop his/her skills for building careers and taking advantage of entrepreneurial opportunities through emerging technologies, in particular related to the web.
Contents overview
* A shift in thinking about the web and emerging technologies
* How the social web is transforming businesses, software design, our perception of people as well as skills required of us
* How to accelerate innovation creation through web-based and other emerging technologies: Ecosystem thinking, strategies, core business values
* Transformation of the social web into humanized web
12 lectures
4 exercises
Exam (closed book) on: Oinas-Kukkonen H. & Oinas-Kukkonen H.: Humanizing the Web: Change and Social Innovation. Palgrave Macmillan, Basingstoke, UK, 2013 (required reading)
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