Achieve your Professional Services Authority Foundation Certification in this training course by understanding the roadmaps for specific technologies and how they impact your business. With this certification, you know how to evaluate and assimilate different technology options, understand the implications of each option, and translate these options into concise documentation that is widely understood.
The following books are provided for pre-course reading: Handbook of Technical Writing, The Innovators Dilemma: When new Technologies cause good firms to fail, and Persistent Forecasting for Disruptive Technologies
Professional Services Professional: Technical Authority Training Delivery Methods
After-course instructor coaching benefit
4thdacad end-of-course exam included
Professional Services Professional: Technical Authority Training Course Benefits
Prepare for and pass the PS Professional Authority Certification examUnderstand the six distinct categories of disruptive technology and their impact on adoptionGain technology awareness that supports appropriate technology forecastingUse model-based techniques for forecasting disruptive technologyApply the laws of technological evolution for technology prediction
Technical Authority Training Outline
Technology Roadmap Awareness
Disruptive technologies
Identifying your organization’s capabilities for adapting to technology change
Recognizing sustaining and disruptive technologies in your industry sector and their market impact
Identifying potential technology-driven and solution –driven opportunities for disruptive technologies
Technology forecasting
Understanding the maturity of current technology
Reviewing published technology forecasts and understanding differing views
Understanding the theory of increasing returns for modern technology or knowledge-orientated businesses
Technology roadmapping
Evaluating technology potential for future needs in a forward-driven technology roadmap
Identification of reach methods of a given target, set by the marketplace in a backward/market-driven roadmap
Identification of the ‘layers’ of an organization’s technology roadmap i.e. know why, what and how
Design Documentation Skills