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How to create an ‘innovation culture’

It’s hard to put your finger on innovation – by definition, it hasn’t been thought of yet. The first iPhone keyboard. The gig economy.

RMIT takes home BHERT Award

RMIT Online has been recognised at the prestigious Business / Higher Education Round Table (BHERT) Awards. 

How to Become A Data Scientist

Jumping into a data career can be exciting, and a little scary.

How SaaS companies changed the internet

What are the big legal tech trends for 2019?

Why is there a product management skills gap in Australia?

This article was originally featured on Business Insider Australia   Australia needs more product managers.

Meet the mentor | Henrik Holmström, Manager, Salesforce

Since its inception in 1999, Salesforce has almost single-handedly revolutionised the CRM space. And if you’re looking to upskill or pivot into Customer Relationship Management, fluency in Salesforce is as good as mandatory.

6 Military Principles That Can Work For Agile Teams

I'm passionate about agile methods. I've been scrum master, agile coach, head of engineering, leader of a team of 90 people across multiple disciplines and all around advocate of enabling teams.

How the Product Management short course helped Rex 'improve project timelines and team collaboration'

Product Managers have been touted the new frontier of tech with Seek citing job opportunities up 53% year on year since 2015. With the average salary benchmarking at over $100,000, it's not surprise that Product Managers are in high demand. 

Graduate encourages us to 'put our amazing human minds to better use' and embrace AI

Artificial intelligence is no longer a sign of the distant future but the buzzword on everyone's lips that's increasingly being integrated into our every day lives. With the number of job opportunities and the interest from job seekers around artificial intelligence 

How to use your SkillsFuture credit

In 2016, the Singaporean Government launched a national initiative called SkillsFuture. This is a government subsidy program for higher education, especially in tech or STEM-related fields, to help Singaporeans upskill and stay relevant for the changing world of work.

A letter to my younger self | Mark Wolfe, Cloud Practice Director, Versent

Are you there, Mark? It’s me, future Mark.

Reimagining Educational Systems Support Future Workforce

As featured in Startup Daily.

Meet the mentor | Greg Dziemidowicz on introducing virtual reality to the sailing industry

How did you get into mixed reality?

Why design thinking matters in HR

Why did you decide to study Design Thinking for Innovation at RMIT Online?

Meet the mentor | Jack McDonald, Product Manager, Envato

How did you get into product management?

News: RMIT Online launches new CRM course to train students for jobs of the future

RMIT Online today announced the addition of a new course to its Future Skills portfolio, CRM Professional with Salesforce.

7 Ways To Kick Career Goals In The New Year

Everyone starts the new year with good intentions, but maybe that’s the problem.

Meet the mentor | Alexander Ramsey on the state of Blockchain and Web3

Alexander Ramsey spends most of his time trying to make the Web a better place.

Is Python the future of AI programming?

Python founder, Guido van Rossum, didn’t fully appreciate what he was building back in 1989.

5 reasons you should steer your career towards self-driving cars and robotics

When Uber and Google threw their weight behind self-driving cars back in 2015, the word on everyone’s minds was ‘jobs’.

What you need to become a Front-End Web Developer

It’s certainly an interesting time to enter web design. In some ways it’s like jumping on coal futures before the Industrial Revolution. The only direction is up.  

NEWS: Australia first partnership with global tech education leader Udacity

RMIT today announces an Australia-first partnership with global education provider Udacity to equip Australians with skills for today, tomorrow and the future of work while also providing a credit pathway into degree programs. 

NEWS: RMIT Online launches the world’s first university short course in VR and AR using Amazon Sumerian

RMIT Online to launch the world’s first university short course in VR and AR using Amazon Sumerian, as well as further courses across AI to address the skills gaps in this burgeoning market. RMIT is also trialing AI technology to enhance the stude

Teacher learns Swift to help students build apps

According to the Spotlight on Consumer App Usage report by App Annie, the average Australian has just under 100 mobile applications

Meet the mentor | Stephen Graham, Associate Strategy Director, Isobar

The landscape for marketers is changing faster than your office colleagues darting to a 'free food in the kitchen' call (*this may or may not be factually accurate).

News: RMIT moves to meet high demand for blockchain skills with two new Australian university first courses

News: Adobe and RMIT partner to address Australia’s digital skills demand

Partnership supports Australia’s place in the global digital race through an online course that explores digital marketing best practices, data-driven marketing and the impact of AI.

In conversation with Blockchain graduate Brooke Jamieson

If you’ve turned on the television, picked up a newspaper, or even stepped outside your place of residence recently, you’ve probably heard about bitcoin. It’s the buzziest word around town.

3 reasons why business leaders should embrace blockchain

In recent months, “blockchain” has become something of a buzzword in media and social feeds due to its links to cryptocurrencies such as Bitcoin.

How to build a career in Blockchain

Blockchain is the buzzword de jour right now. Everyone’s talking about it, even if half of those people are hazy on the details.

Accenture’s Managing Director explains why it’s important to learn blockchain now

Earlier this year, we were excited to announce our partnership with Accenture when we delivered the first Australian university course dedicated to blockchain.  Accenture is one of the world’s largest technology agencies, providing blockchain solutions for most of the Fu

Is design thinking dead?

Let’s wind the clock back to 1980. Apple approaches a company called IDEO to design a mouse for their shiny new personal computer, the Lisa (a grey cube boasting a beefy 5MHz processor).

8 apps to help you work

Apps are usually things that prevent us from working, not the other way around. But there are a tonne of good ones out there specifically designed to boost productivity and concentration (that makes them sound like multi-vitamins, but you get the idea).

3 steps to future-proof your career (before the robots get here)

The World Economic Forum calls it the Fourth Industrial Revolution. What they’re talking about is the fusion of physical and digital technology, the rise of machine learning and the very real prospect of humans, not to put too fine a point on it, becoming obsolete.

Beyond the hype: What every executive needs to know about blockchain

As a leader, how do you separate the hype from reality to fully understand blockchain's potential impact on business models and the skills you need to navigate this emerging industry?  

Blockchain: A catalyst for new business models

Today, the concept of blockchain technology is all but synonymous with cryptocurrency – it’s through pioneers like Bitcoin that everyday consumers have come to recognise this revolutionary and instantaneous mechanism for executing and recording financial transactions.

Blockchain and the Disruption of Higher Education

I recently wrote about why business leaders should embrace blockchain technology (here).

Embracing AI won’t lead to unemployment

Machinery has been replacing manual labour since the Industrial Revolution and through to the 1990s and early 2000s when the shift from manufacturing into a service economy unfolded.