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Understanding the IT Industry
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Understanding the IT Industry

An overview
Created byAmit Prabhu
Last updated 11/2022
English

What you'll learn

  • Define and categorize the IT industry
  • Know the IT industry value chain
  • Get familiar with evolution of IT industry and software development methodologies
  • Understand the important trends and jobs in IT

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Course content

1 section • 10 lectures • 39m total length

  • IT Industry Classification6:16

    Explore how the information technology industry classifies into hardware, software, and services, and summarize the roles of device drivers, middleware, and programming software.

  • Evolution of IT Industry5:43
  • Value Chain1:51

    Customers drive the IT value chain by purchasing devices, software, and services from OEMs, software manufacturers, and service providers through retailers. Regulators ensure standardization and governance across the industry.

  • IT Governance Frameworks6:17

    Understand how IT governance aligns IT with business objectives, data privacy, and risk. Explore ITIL lifecycle phases: strategy, design, transition, operation, service improvement, and COBIT and ISO/IEC standards guiding governance.

  • SaaS, PaaS, IaaS2:59
  • Evolution of Software Development Methodologies9:31

    Explore evolution of software development methodologies from structured programming and waterfall to agile, Scrum, Crystal, and DevOps, with future trends like remote working, cloud computing, artificial intelligence, cybersecurity, and automation.

  • Role of IT in Digital Transformation1:35

    Explore how digital transformation reshapes industries through AI, automation, cloud, IoT, 5G, metaverse, extended reality, and data science, driven by compute, connectivity, and cloud.

  • Role of IT in Platforms1:45

    Explore how platform based business models replace linear models, with roles like owner, provider, producer, and consumer, and how information flow and interactions drive platform revenue.

  • Top Jobs in IT2:37

    Explore top IT jobs like data scientist, big data architect, devops engineer, cloud architect, ai architect, and full stack developer.

  • Conclusion0:26

    Conclude the course on understanding the IT industry and invite your feedback to improve future offerings. Encourage current IT professionals and newcomers to pursue their IT career with confidence.

Requirements

  • None

Description

Information technology Industry, popularly known as IT is an inevitable part  of our daily interactions. Loads of data and information flows across the networks everyday across the globe. Laptops, desktops, phones etc. have become a part of our daily routine. Let it be any industry - telecommunications, media, education automotive, retail, transport, healthcare etc, IT plays a very important role in shaping the customer interactions and business operations. Have you ever wondered how this industry works? If you are a beginner who has no prior knowledge of IT or even an existing IT professional who wants explore more, this course is right for you. It will provide you an high level overview of this trillion dollar huge industry.

At the end of this course you will be able to:

-  Define and categorize the IT industry

- Know the Information Technology industry value chain and learn how do different players interact with each other

- Learn the different Information Technology industry governance frameworks such as ITIL, COBIT and ISO/IEC

- Get familiar with the evolution of IT Industry and software development methodologies such as Agile, SAFe, Scrum, DevOps

- Understand the important trends such as digital transformation and platforms and top jobs in IT industry

Please note that the final session of this course describes the top high paying and in-demand jobs in IT as per year 2022. This may not remain same and might change in future.

Who this course is for:

  • Beginners who have no prior knowledge of IT
  • Current IT professionals and students who want to seek high-level information on IT industry

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