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Advanced Professional Certificate

Advanced Professional Certificate in Digital Innovation

Training Roadmap


Completion of Stages 1 to 3 curricula earns the participant an Advanced Professional Certificate in this programme.

Programme Objectives

This Advanced Professional Certificate will equip learners with the following competencies:

  • Guides the learners through service problem analysis, process design, and process analytics, and examines the related innovation governance and leadership issues
  • Design and develop frameworks, methodologies, and processes to manage the Artificial Intelligence (AI) innovation value chain including ensuring compliance with AI ethics and governance
  • Guide the learners to be able to identify the problem, analyse and collect the relevant data to be able to create new ideas for a consolidated innovation strategy

Job Role Readiness

It will prepare learners in the following job roles to perform their responsibilities more effectively:

  • Business Unit Heads
  • Senior and Middle Managers
  • Executives
  • Technology and business leaders who are interested to learn how to plan, drive and navigate change for digital transformations

Who Should Attend

  • Senior and Middle Management
  • Business Professionals

Prerequisites

At least a polytechnic diploma (or equivalent).

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Types of Available Fundings

  • Enhanced Training Support
  • SFEC
  • PSEA

    • Instructors


    A/Prof Oh Lih Bin

    A/Prof Oh Lih Bin

    A/Prof Oh Lih Bin is an Associate Professor and Deputy Head (Teaching and Degree Programmes) in the Department of Information Systems and Analytics, NUS School of Computing. Between 2008 and 2014, Dr Oh was Assistant/Associate Professor of Information Management at the School of Management, Xi’an Jiaotong University (XJTU) in Xi’an, China. He also served as the school’s Academic Director of International Affairs and Programs from 2011-2013. He has held visiting appointments at the MIT Sloan School of Management and the Michigan State University Broad College of Business. Prior to pursuing an academic career, Dr Oh worked as a senior officer (infocomm sciences) in the Science and Engineering Research Council of the Agency for Science, Technology and Research (A*STAR). He also had adjunct lecturing experience in the off-campus programs of Monash University Gippsland School of Information Technology. He has taught courses in IT and service innovation, information systems leadership, e-commerce, and information ethics at the undergraduate, graduate, and MBA/EMBA levels. Dr Oh obtained his Ph.D. and M.Sc. in Information Systems and B.Sc. (First Class Honors) in Computer and Information Sciences from NUS.

    Dr Charles Phua Chao Rong

    Dr Charles Phua Chao Rong

    Dr Charles Chao Rong Phua is an academic-practitioner of trisector strategy-innovation-entrepreneurship. With 22 years in government and corporate doing various domains (corporate, geopolitical, policy and military) and phases (design, implementation, monitoring/adjustment) of strategy work, he now runs Solaris Strategies Singapore and chairs Solaris Consortium of Management Consultancies with full suite of consulting capabilities. Besides (local and overseas) government and non-profit consulting, his corporate consulting ranged from strategy development for then $916b tech MNC to $1M start-up to sector/industry transformation to organisational development for 12 organisations. He teaches trisector strategy practicums in 4 Singapore and 1 Swiss universities, and is success coach/program leader for Chief Strategy Officer program with Emeritus and National University of Singapore Business School. His first PhD was in public policy (strategic pragmatism as strategy) and EdD (soon) on teaching strategy with postgraduate/degrees (including in progress) in international relations, education, security management, accounting, organisational psychology, systems thinking, law, HRM, marketing, economics/finance, strategy and innovation, amongst others. He learnt strategy-innovation-entrepreneurship, marketing and sustainability from top B schools: Harvard strategy, leadership and management, entrepreneurship and innovation, MIT systems thinking, Stanford design, Wharton strategy and entrepreneurship, INSEAD advanced strategy, Babson entrepreneurship, Kellogg marketing, Berkeley open innovation, LBS and Cambridge sustainability, Oxford strategy and scenarios, and fused them in his consulting and teaching/coaching practice. Dr Charles has won scholarships from NUS (PhD), NTU (EdD), Goldman Sachs (twice), Oxford and Cambridge (partial) and completed fellowships at Brookings Institution, Columbia, Johns Hopkins. He is a Singapore Skillsfuture fellowship awardee and Routledge series editor for strategy, wisdom and skills. He is amongst 100 global professor/author grade Certified Management Consultant-Academic Fellow (International Council of Management Consulting Institutes); previous winners included heads of business schools and programs. He is author of four and two (forthcoming) books covering geopolitical, policy, and corporate strategy. His 3rd and 4th published books are under consideration for two PhDs in military/security and corporate strategy, by publication. His 5th book seeks to integrate strategy in military, corporate, geopolitical and policy domains; his 6th book on teaching strategy from his EdD thesis; both manuscripts under production. He is currently writing his 7th book on corporate sustainability strategy and 8th book on trisector strategy-innovation-entrepreneurship.

    Mr Zaid Bin Hamzah

    Mr Zaid Bin Hamzah

    Zaid Hamzah is an AI and data strategist and practitioner specialising in AI in finance and law, AI and data governance and AI in information security. An AI patent holder, he is currently an Executive Education Fellow at the National University of Singapore (NUS) School of Computing’s Advanced Computing for Executives centre where he runs programmes on AI Innovation Management, Intellectual Property Rights in AI Innovation, and Commercialisation of AI Innovation. He has taught legal AI at the Singapore Management University School of Law. Zaid is deeply involved in AI R&D and innovation. His AI patent relating to risk management in a supply chain context was granted by the Intellectual Property Office of Singapore in December 2023. He is currently involved in AI research and innovation in the area of decision intelligence and cybersecurity. Author of 10 books spanning law, technology, intellectual property and AI, Zaid has over 35 years of professional experience. He has previously served as (i) Microsoft's Director for intellectual property and commercial software; (ii) Senior Legal Advisor to Singtel’s joint venture with Warner Bros and Sony Pictures (iii) Chief Regulatory Legal & Compliance Officer at publicly-listed Telekom Malaysia; (iv) Associate, Khattar Wong & Partners (Singapore law firm) and (v) Singapore Government service. Zaid has a law degree from the National University of Singapore and completed his Masters in International Relations at the Fletcher School of Law and Diplomacy, Tufts University on a Fulbright scholarship. Zaid is a member of the Board of Directors, NIE International (which is wholly owned by Nanyang Technological University). Zaid volunteers his professional services to start ups in the area of AI management and intellectual property protection and regularly conducts community programmes on how to get young children ready for a data and AI future.

    Programme Fees


    Singapore Citizens Singapore PRs Enhanced Training Support for SMEs International Participants
    39 years old or younger 40 years old or older
    S$5,967.75 S$2,317.75 S$5,967.75 S$2,317.75 S$19,892.50
    1. Total Nett Programme Fee Payable, including GST, after additional funding from various funding schemes.
    2. Participants must fulfill at least 75% attendance and pass all assessment components for all short courses within an advanced professional certificate to be eligible for SSG funding.
    3. Please note that all external funding for courses is limited in duration and subject to eligibility and availability.

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    Singapore 119391
    Email: soc-ace@nus.edu.sg

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