PROF. (DR.) WILLIAM S LIGHTFOOT
Dr. William S Lightfoot holds an MS degree in Engineering from the University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill, USA, and an MBA from the prestigious UNC - Kenan-Flagler Business School, Chapel Hill, North Carolina, USA. He did his Ph.D. in Management from the famous Capella University, Minneapolis, USA.
As Dean of the College of Business and Mass Communication, Brenau University, Georgia, USA, he led a team of 27 full-time and over 130 part-time employees that doubled tuition revenue, while significantly improving quality (as measured by external assessment). By developing market-driven programs, and revitalizing marketing efforts, the College grew to over 1200 students at 5 campus locations and online. Developed innovative partnerships (Oxford @ Brenau) that increased the stature of the University in the community, which in turn helped increase enrollment in the MBA program, specifically from ~ 200 to over 600 students making it one of the most successful programs in Georgia, USA.
He completed an assignment in Tanzania where he transformed Village Inc. Africa into a collaborative initiative that provides capital and expertise that empowers rural communities in Sub-Saharan Africa through building healthy, high-quality homes and producing and installing locally sourced materials. Dr. Lightfoot worked for Jim Jacoby, COO of Jacoby Development. A born thinker and innovator, he initiated several innovative projects combining Jacoby's focus on creating a more sustainable environment. Over the past decade, he has led the creation of several social ventures including R.I.S.E., and Village Inc. Africa. He was also a partner at SCILS Management Training Center in Helsinki, Finland, and EPOCH Management in Atlanta, Georgia.
Till recently he was Vice President of Product Operations at Southern New Hampshire University, USA. Now, Dr. Lightfoot is an educator, leadership coach, management whisperer, and explorer of ideas.
He has a penchant for community development activities. His dearest vertical in RIMSR is the "BUSINESS & FINANCIAL LITERACY PROGRAM FOR THE RURAL ENTREPRENEUR." One of his missions is to identify and nurture a million entrepreneurs and start-ups in India and the world over.
Dr. Lightfoot has lived in North America, Europe, and Africa, and has extensively toured all over India.
He is Chief Advisor and is on the Governing Council & Board of Studies of RIMSR.
CYBER SECURITY
×The goal of cybersecurity is to protect systems, networks, data, and programs from digital attacks. As cyber-attacks continue to increase in frequency and sophistication, it is imperative that cybersecurity professionals learn how to quickly identify and mitigate vulnerabilities. In this course, you will learn common security terminology including threats, vulnerabilities, attacks, exploits, controls, and countermeasures. Discover the fundamentals of the confidentiality, integrity, and availability (CIA) triad, and explore the five elements of the AAA framework: identification, authentication, authorization, auditing, and accountability. You'll then explore risk considerations and management strategies, and discover how risks can be mitigated, accepted, transferred, and rejected. Lastly, explore core networking components and discover how information flow models are used to prevent unauthorized information flow in any direction.
Level : Diploma Course
DURATION : 146 Hours
Includes tutorials, assignments, exercises, pre and post course tests.
PROJECT MANAGEMENT
×If you're responsible for managing projects, understanding the project basics i essential. Project management is affected at every stage by the organization, the social environment, the project stakeholders, and many other aspects of the context in which the project is carried out. This training helps you understand what you need to know before planning begins. This course covers key project management concepts and terms and provides information about the variables that can influence project outcomes.
Level : Diploma Course
DURATION : 143 Hours
Includes tutorials, assignments, exercises, pre and post course tests.
DIGITAL TRANSFORMATION
×Digital disruption. Digital transformation. Whatever you call it, the switch to digital technologies requires a close look at core business processes, company governance, customer experiences: and of course, the actual transformational digital technologies. In this course, you will learn about the crucial leadership capabilities required to make digital transformation a reality. You’ll understand how a solid compass can help you steer the implementation of digital transformation by framing the challenge you’re about to undergo. You’ll also learn best practices to focus on the customer, as well as actions to mobilize and sustain operational processes and the employee experience. You’ll also gain an understanding of the underlying business models and digital platforms that power digital transformation.
Level : Diploma Course
DURATION : 161 Hours
Includes tutorials, assignments, exercises, pre and post course tests.
CLOUD COMPUTING & VIRTUALIZATION
×More and more companies today are moving applications and business processes to the cloud. Explore cloud computing, from its inception to its current core attributes and service models. The Cloud offers enticing benefits to businesses; however, there are also drawbacks. Explore various cloud service models along with the advantages and disadvantages that the Cloud has to offer. Explore the benefits and drawbacks related to cloud computing for both the IT department and business as a whole. Also, discover different types of services that have become available in the Cloud. Modern data center design is highly influenced by requirements of the Cloud to provide a secure, scalable, and highly available infrastructure. Explore technologies, including virtualization, that allow clouds to be a competitive option.
Level : Diploma Course
DURATION : 98 Hours
Includes tutorials, assignments, exercises, pre and post course tests.
ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE
×The world of artificial intelligence (AI) includes many areas in computing, which makes it a complex field. Explore AI applications, techniques, environments, and behaviors. Artificial intelligence (AI) provides cutting-edge tools to help organizations predict behaviors, identify key patterns, and drive decision-making in a world that is increasingly made up of data. In this course, you will explore the full definition of AI, how it works, and when it can be used. You will identify the types of data tools and technologies AI uses to operate. Next, you will discover a framework for using the AI life cycle and data science process. Finally, you'll consider what you need to keep in mind as you implement AI techniques in your organization. Upon completion of this course, you'll be familiar with common concepts and use cases of artificial intelligence (AI) and be able to outline strategies for each part of the AI life cycle.
Level : Diploma Course
DURATION : 88 Hours
Includes tutorials, assignments, exercises, pre and post course tests.
BIG DATA
×Big data analytics, collecting vast amounts of data and transforming it into insights, drives major business decisions everywhere. Managers, decision-makers, data technicians, and data enthusiasts alike benefit from knowing how various systems and technologies are used in big data projects. Use this course to progress from a foundational comprehension of big data analytics to grasping more advanced concepts, like parallel and distributed computing systems and horizontal and vertical scaling. Take an in-depth look at Hadoop's main components and characteristics and how it's used for big data analytics. Then, delve into the various kinds of storage systems used in big data. Upon completing this course, you'll have a greater comprehension of the tools and methods used to execute big data projects.
Level : Diploma Course
DURATION : 76 Hours
Includes tutorials, assignments, exercises, pre and post course tests.
PRODUCT MANAGEMENT
×The product manager is a “mini-CEO,” responsible for overseeing a product through its entire lifecycle—from ideation to development to market introduction to retirement. In this course, you will learn the difference in roles between a product manager and a project manager, the key responsibilities, and attributes of a product manager, the four stages of product development, and how to support a product management model in your organization.
Level : Diploma Course
DURATION : 63 Hours
Includes tutorials, assignments, exercises, pre and post course tests.
BUSINESS ANALYSIS
×Implementing process and system changes to an organization requires fully analyzing the business to enable careful planning. The globally recognized standards of practice in the Business Analysis Body of Knowledge (BABOK), guide the business analyst in the proper analytics to ensure that the needs of the organization are well understood so that solutions are designed to meet those needs. In this course, you'll learn about the final tasks in the requirements analysis and design definition knowledge area. Defining a requirements architecture, defining design options, and analyzing potential value and recommending solutions.
Level : Certificate Course
DURATION : 46 Hours
Includes tutorials, assignments, exercises, pre and post course tests.
SIX SIGMA
×Six Sigma is a data-driven improvement strategy that views all activities within an organization as processes. Process inputs can be controlled and adjusted to effect significant improvements in process outputs. Six Sigma uses a rigorous and systematic methodology known as DMAIC (define, measure, analyze, improve, and control) and a number of qualitative and quantitative tools. Its goal is to drive process, product, and service improvements for reducing variation and defects. Lean is also an improvement methodology, but with a different focus. It aims to enhance process flow, reduce cycle time, and eliminate waste. This course introduces Six Sigma and Lean methodologies and looks at the relationship between them. It also explores relationships among business systems and processes using some practical examples of Lean Six Sigma applications in both manufacturing and service industries. This course is aligned with the ASQ Certified Six Sigma Black Belt certification exam and is designed to assist learners as part of their exam preparation.
Level : Certificate Course
DURATION : 38 Hours
Includes tutorials, assignments, exercises, pre and post course tests.
BLOCK CHAIN
×Just as the Internet revolutionized the way companies do business, digital innovation and blockchain technology are redefining transactions. In fact, blockchain has the potential to provide its own far-reaching business revolution. Perhaps the best-known application of blockchain is bitcoin. But blockchain is much more than that! In this course, you'll learn about blockchain technology, how it changes the way business transactions take place, and the differences between public and private versions. You'll also learn about smart contracts, and how they enable innovation, as well as the key challenges that blockchain technology currently faces. And you'll learn about the trust paradigm and how it’s being used in business today.
Level : Certificate Course
DURATION : 36 Hours
Includes tutorials, assignments, exercises, pre and post course tests.
DATA SCIENCE
×Data science is the study of data to extract meaningful insights for business. It is a multidisciplinary approach that combines principles and practices from the fields of mathematics, statistics, artificial intelligence, and computer engineering to analyze large amounts of data. This analysis helps data scientists to ask and answer questions like what happened, why it happened, what will happen, and what can be done with the results. Data science is important because it combines tools, methods, and technology to generate meaning from data. Modern organizations are inundated with data; there is a proliferation of devices that can automatically collect and store information. Online systems and payment portals capture more data in the fields of e-commerce, medicine, finance, and every other aspect of human life. We have text, audio, video, and image data available in vast quantities. Data science differentiates itself from statistics and application programming by using what it needs from a variety of disciplines. Explore what it means to be a data scientist and what sets data science apart from other disciplines.
Level : Diploma Course
DURATION : 81 Hours
Includes tutorials, assignments, exercises, pre and post course tests.
DEEP LEARNING
×It’s a type of machine learning based on artificial neural networks in which multiple layers of processing are used to extract progressively higher-level features from data. It’s essentially a neural network with three or more layers. These neural networks attempt to simulate the behavior of the human brain—albeit far from matching its ability—allowing it to “learn” from large amounts of data. Deep learning makes it faster and easier to interpret large amounts of data and form them into meaningful information. It is used in multiple industries, including automatic driving and medical devices. Learn all about “Deep Learning” in this course.
Level : Certificate Course
DURATION : 53 Hours
Includes tutorials, assignments, exercises, pre and post course tests.
SOFTWARE TESTING
×Software testing is the process of assessing the functionality of a software program. The process checks for errors and gaps and whether the outcome of the application matches desired expectations before the software is installed and goes live. It’s the culmination of application development through which software testers evaluate code by questioning it. This evaluation can be brief or proceed until all stakeholders are satisfied. Software testing identifies bugs and issues in the development process so they're fixed prior to product launch. This approach ensures that only quality products are distributed to consumers, which in turn elevates customer satisfaction and trust. This course helps you become a specialist in software testing Get to know the two main categories of software testing, namely dynamic testing, and static testing.
Level : Certificate Course
DURATION : 42 Hours
Includes tutorials, assignments, exercises, pre and post course tests.
SUPPLY CHAIN MANAGEMENT
×A supply chain is the network of all the individuals, organizations, resources, activities, and technology involved in the creation and sale of a product. A supply chain encompasses everything from the delivery of source materials from the supplier to the manufacturer through to its eventual delivery to the end user. This course gives you in-depth understanding of five areas of supply chain management, namely, supply planning, production planning,
inventory planning, capacity planning, and distribution planning. The course also provides skills in Integration,
operations, purchasing and distribution, the four elements of the supply chain that work together to establish a path
to competition that is both cost-effective and competitive.
Level : Certificate Course
DURATION : 38 Hours
Includes tutorials, assignments, exercises, pre and post course tests.
STRATEGY AND INNOVATION
×An innovative strategy guides decisions on how resources are to be used to meet a business's objectives for innovation, deliver value and build competitive advantage. Strategies should include: an analysis of a business's competitive and technological environment, its external challenges, and opportunities. Understand the four
innovation strategies, that is proactive, active, reactive, and passive. This course helps you develop a new product,
protect market share, expand market share, sell, or license to another organization, retain more staff, improve
operational efficiency, and increased recognition in the marketplace.
Level : Certificate Course
DURATION : 42 Hours
Includes tutorials, assignments, exercises, pre and post course tests.
ETHICAL HACKING
×Discover the requirements and objectives of the CEHv10 (312-50) exam and explore threats, the threat landscape, what motivates threat actors, and threat defense types. Watch the videos in this course and learn how to describe the questions associated with the CEHv10 exam, identify a vulnerability in IT security and recite various basic terms in IT security. You'll also observe how to provide an example of a network threat, determine a threat category, and outline a concept in threat management. Being an ethical hacker means, in some ways, that you'll need to assume the identity of a bad hacker. In this course, you'll learn what it means to be a hacker, the common hacker classes, and the five phases of hacking. As an ethical hacker, you may encounter those that don&'t understand what that means and how a person can use seemingly dangerous skills towards an ethical purpose. You'll examine ethical hacking and how it can be a great tool for helping to create a more secure network. You'll also explore skills and limitations common to ethical hackers. This course helps to prepare you for the Certified Ethical Hacker v11 (312-50) exam.
Level : Certificate Course
DURATION : 34 Hours
Includes tutorials, assignments, exercises, pre and post course tests.
NETWORKING AND TELECOMMUNICATION
×Networking standards define how communication occurs during transmission and between devices. When you want devices to communicate with each other, you need to be able to connect them, and there's a variety of ways to do that. In this course, you’ll explore the fundamentals of networking standards, beginning with the organizations that
create and maintain them and the process surrounding networking standards creation. Then you'll explore the OSI
model and its various layers and discover the backbone of computer networking, the TCP/IP model. You'll discover
the various networking media types, cables, standards, and categories. Then you'll explore half and full duplex
communication and structured cabling systems and how to design and install them. Then you'll learn how to
properly examine and test cabling. Finally, you'll delve into fiber optic cabling and wireless network
connections. This course was originally created by Global Knowledge (GK).
Level : Certificate Course
DURATION : 51 Hours
Includes tutorials, assignments, exercises, pre and post course tests.
DESIGN THINKING
×Learn how to implement design thinking to solve problems, overcome challenges, and improve your level of innovation while improving user experience and overall results. Acquire insights on the five stages of design
thinking, insights on what encoding failure is and why it limits our ability to recognize opportunities forimprovement and innovation, acquire insights on using design thinking to overcome challenges, acquire insights on
the problem of fixation in the ideation stage of design thinking, acquire insights on how to select the best idea to
implement, acquire insights on the show-me technique to ensure that the users’ actions match what they’re saying,
acquire insights on understanding that design can be learned and taught, acquire insights on understanding the core
principles of design, acquire insights on understanding that everyone who makes a choice is a designer, acquire
insights on the importance of understanding your customers to be able to make great and effective designs, acquire
insights on the importance of creativity and critical thinking to create strategic advantage in making great designs,
acquire insights on to uncover the strategic advantages design plays in innovation, acquire insights on how aligning
product strategy and design requires both spreadsheets and sketches, acquire insights on how good design creates
value by building trust and creating connections with consumers to the point where they come back to you time and
time again, and more.
Level : Certificate Course
DURATION : 40 Hours
Includes tutorials, assignments, exercises, pre and post course tests.