Professional Mini-Master in Technology Innovation and Initiative Portfolios is a free program on ARPS, the Arab Platform for Professional Studies. Build professional judgment for technology innovation bets, from opportunity framing and evidence to a feasible portfolio, governance and rebalancing. The five modules start with a measurable problem rather than a tool name.
Optional certificate fee 50% launch discount
$120 instead of $240
441 AED or 450 SAR
The five modules start with a measurable problem rather than a tool name. You compare alternatives and dependencies, then design trials that separate service value from technology readiness. You select a feasible set of initiatives under budget, specialist capacity and dependency constraints. You assign decision, data and output rights and define conditions for operating a service or stopping it. Finally, you measure benefits and incremental value and defend portfolio rebalancing in a board memorandum. Training cases and numbers are fictional; methodological sources are cited with their limits. One integrated final assessment follows all five modules.
Apply the tools to an initiative you are permitted to study or to the included fictional cases. Produce a problem card, evidence roadmap, initiative register and decision memo without sharing secrets or personal records.
An initiative can top a scorecard yet be infeasible because data rights are missing or the same specialist is committed elsewhere. The program connects hypotheses with evidence, capacity, rights and realized benefits. Expansion is not presumed correct; testing, revision or stopping can be the better decision.
The material fits innovation, product, strategy, portfolio and transformation responsibilities for practitioners with relevant foundations. It develops decision analysis and cross-functional communication without promising employment, promotion or regulated authorization.
Turn a technology proposal into a testable problem, then compare alternatives, dependencies and the first investment gate.
Sequence hypotheses, trials and readiness evidence, separating an observed result from its interpretation before the next commitment.
Compare initiatives on consistent terms, test ranking sensitivity, and account for capacity, dependencies and correlated risk.
Assign decision, intellectual property and risk ownership, with explicit conditions for operation, revision or stop.
Connect initiative outputs to benefits, appraise uncertain value and rebalance the portfolio in an integrated decision memorandum.
Subjects unlock in sequence as you progress.
Scoped primary sources include the Oslo Manual, public ISO materials, GAO guidance, PMI and the Green Book. Lessons distinguish source guidance from fictional case assumptions and figures; an ISO public description is neither the full standard nor program accreditation.
Modules connect innovation definitions, portfolio selection, trials, technology readiness and benefit appraisal while stating each source limit.
Exercises require no coding, but assume basic familiarity with performance data, integration and investment decisions. Foundational preparation helps if these ideas are new.
You build a problem card, trial plan, portfolio register, funding and governance conditions, then a board memo. Fictional cases let you work without company data.
Knowledge checks appear during lessons, followed by one integrated final after all five modules. A transcript accompanying the certificate shows performance on each module's questions within the same qualifying final attempt, not separate module examinations.
No. It is an internal completion credential for the Professional Mini-Master route, not a university degree, standards accreditation or professional license. Availability and issuance follow central platform policy.
The fictional cases are sufficient. When applying the method at work, use only authorized information and review rights, privacy and local constraints before any trial.
Yes. Professional Mini-Master in Technology Innovation and Initiative Portfolios is free on ARPS: every lesson, exercise and assessment is free, the first subject is open to read without an account, and the program is available in Arabic and English. Issuing a certificate is optional; it is a training completion certificate showing you passed the program's assessments, not a university degree, a professional licence or an endorsement by an external body.
The subject of this program is also known as: innovation management, innovation portfolio management, technology innovation strategy. Learners usually find it by searching for: innovation management course, learn innovation portfolio management, free technology innovation program, evaluating innovation opportunities, online program with completion certificate.
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