Certifications - Institute for Digital Business Strategy (IDBS)

Our Featured Executive Courses in digital business strategy

Complete and up-to-date course information is available on IDBS’s online school.

Develop and improve a variety of skills for the 21st Century

Organisations are operating in the digital economy. Understanding how to combine digital transformation and monetizing the digital business models is central to the modern-day executives and business professional’s agenda. Implementation of a digital business strategy (DBS) involves value co-creation, proving digital solutions for socio- economic value by learning how to apply an entrepreneurial mindset to a business of any size in the digital economy. Who should apply? Startup smarts, mid to senior level executives of all years of experience. How will you advance? Test and learn, understand and succeed with real life cases, discover the guiding DBS Model incorporating aspects of digital economy from various regions including Africa. These programs and courses are certified by the Institute of Chartered IT Professionals (ICITP) a recognized professional body by the South African Qualifications Authority (SAQA). A Continuing Professional Development (CPD) Certification Service and may be applicable to individuals who are members of or are associated with professional bodies. The courses have an estimated 100 hours of learning.

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IDBS Training Offerings for Businesses (uCertify)

Leading Digital Transformation Certification. Over the next 20 years Africa will be the most promising investment destination for businesses, and many are predicting that resource rich continent will be the “new China.” Growth in Africa is real. As reported by InvestorPlace.com, per-capita GDP has more than doubled in the past decade. And according to Deloitte, 7 of the 10 fastest-growing countries in the world are in Africa. The Economist has recently reported that “Lion Economies” such as Ghana and Rwanda are reminiscent of the Asian “Tiger Economies” South Korea and Taiwan at their earlier stages of development.

As businesses compete to gain a foothold in the evolving African economy, the IDBS is postured to offer training programs for businesses which can be tailored to suite their specific needs as determined by their market focus and the current skill level of employees. The IDBS is standing by to discuss the direction of the marketplace in a digitally transformative business cycle. Disruptive technologies can be sensed, assessed, and leveraged to improve your firms’ products and services and ensure competitiveness as the future market environment unfolds.

With rapid technological change comes challenge. Businesses cannot expect to provide in-house training for all the difference software and database development tools that will be applied on projects – that will be the job of organizations like the IDBS. Through our own courses and our training partners, the IDBS offer a low-cost training solution in a wide range of technology areas which are constantly being updated to keep pace with industry.

If you are a Training or Human Resources (HR) Manager and want to fill some training gaps in your in-house training programs, please contact the IDBS so a training program tailored to your needs can be developed. The IDBS can be reached at: members@institute-dbs.com.

IDBS Training for Professional Associations

Institute of Chartered IT Professionals (ICITP) Continuing Professional Development Training (future offering).

The IDBS is working closely with several professional associations to design and develop training programs to support the continuing education and development requirements rolled out by these organizations. If you are a professional association and would like to develop a tailored continuing education program, please contact the IDBS at: members@institute-dbs.com.

IDBS offerings:

(1) Leading Digital Transformation Certification for individuals. Free certificate programs in digital business strategy and
implementing digital business transformation in Africa.
(2) uCertify course offerings that can tailored to fill the needs of businesses in
Africa.

(3) Focused Cloud IT programs that give employees a technical skill set that
ensures success in a transformative work environment.
(4) Continuing Professional Educational and Developmental Training tailored to
the needs of Professional Associations in Africa.