In many organizations, financial management processes and activities drive behaviors and decisions— which limits people's capabilities to continuously improve, experiment in areas of great uncertainty, reduce real risks, and innovate. In this course, one of eight in the Lean Technology Strategy series, Joanne Molesky talks about different ways to look at financial management to remove barriers to experimentation, innovation, and improved value delivery to your customers. Review the pitfalls of classic financial management, alternative models, and ways to plan for the future and create rolling forecasts.

In the majority of organizations, investment and prioritization decisions are not made on the basis of economic modeling. This inevitably leads to decision making using the HiPPO (the Highly Paid Person's Opinion) method. In this course, one of eight in the Lean Technology Strategy series, Jez Humble presents two frameworks—decision trees and cost of delay—that can be used to drive decisions at the portfolio, program, and product level. Jez then shows how to use these tools to expose and validate assumptions, and to constantly align your plans to the best economic choice.

High-performance organizations continuously move initiatives through the business model life cycle. They understand that using the same strategy across the entire portfolio will result in negative outcomes and results. To be successful, a company should have a balanced portfolio of products that reflect the mission, strategy, and desired state the organization wishes to be in. In this course, one of eight in the Lean Technology Strategy series, Barry O'Reilly shares how to seek out new business models, products, and services to ensure the future business relevance, growth, and evolution of your organization. Explore the life cycle of innovation, strategies for innovation, and methods for measuring your success.

Interested in creating realistic environments for animation, architectural visualization, or games? This course can help you get started. Join instructor Darrin Lile as he steps through how to create a scene with Blender and Substance Painter. Darrin shows how to model rooms, explaining how to create the walls, doors, and windows of a coworking space. He goes over how to create furniture and appliances using key modeling tools and modifiers in Blender, as well as how to UV map the office desks, stools, chairs, and other 3D objects in the scene. Darrin then discusses how to bring your files into Substance Painter and apply realistic textures to your models. To wrap up, he demonstrates how to add lights and render your scene using both the Eevee and Cycles render engines in Blender.