Thinking about starting something of your own, or shaking up how work gets done? This course takes a rough idea and turns it into a business model you can test. Problem solving, customer research, prototyping and pitching, at your own pace.
You have an idea and you want to see if it can pay. You learn how to spot a problem worth solving, talk to customers, build a rough version, and raise money. By the end you can pitch yourself and the business.
Managers, supervisors and small business owners use this to bring new thinking to work they already do. Business models, market research and evaluation methods you can put to use on Monday.
Instant access when you enrol, then your own pace with no deadlines. Assessments can be retaken as many times as you need, and your access lasts for life.
These skills get used in start-ups, tech companies, big established businesses, the public sector and social enterprises. The work is easy to picture: spotting a problem worth solving, talking to customers, testing an idea, then selling it to the people who can back it.
Your own idea and your own customers. Problem ideation, business models, rough builds and capital raising all point straight here.
New ideas to grow what you already run, and cleaner ways of working day to day.
Finding new opportunities and making the case for them. Customer research and market analysis are the daily work.
Taking an idea, testing it with customers, and shaping it into something people will pay for.
Moving ideas from plan to delivery, with the evaluation methods to judge what is working.
Roles where these skills are useful, not promised outcomes. Every role is different, and some need more study or experience.
Eleven topics, from your first idea through to pitching the business.
Here is what stands out in this course.
Your mentors include Dom Pym, founder at Up Bank, Matt Gadsby, industry manager at Google, and Asami Koike, founder at Shapes and Sounds.
You start with the founder's mindset and a problem worth solving. You finish with a business model, a rough build, a brand, money options, and a pitch.
Once you are enrolled you can upgrade this micro-credential to earn formal higher education credit through the college's university partners. That upgrade costs extra and adds assessments.
Enrolment includes free access to the On Demand content library, where well known names and industry leaders share how they got where they are.
Course Completion Acknowledgement · Online Courses Australia
Finish the course and you receive the college's Course Completion Acknowledgement, plus a short-form credential for the Innovation Micro-Credential.
The course is fully CPD endorsed. Your points show on your completion acknowledgement, and employers recognise them as proof you keep learning.
Shareable on LinkedIn and to a mobile wallet, in your own language.
Send an enquiry and a course advisor gets back to you with the course guide, current pricing and straight answers on whether it fits.
Start anytime with instant access. Choose the interest-free weekly plan with no credit check, pay in four with Afterpay, or pay upfront in one payment.
Work through the video modules with your mentor and tutors behind you. Assessments are short-answer and multiple-choice, and you can retake them.
Complete the course and receive your Course Completion Acknowledgement, 39 CPD points and a Credly digital badge.
None needed. The course opens with the foundations of innovation and the founder's mindset, then builds from there.
The weekly plan is $15 a week, interest-free with no credit check. Enquire for the full payment options, including pay-in-four with Afterpay and upfront.
Around 80 study hours, at your own pace. Access is lifetime, so there is no deadline. You can come back to the material after you finish.
Yes. You look at customer needs, market research, business models and ways to judge whether an idea is worth backing. Small business owners, managers and supervisors are a big part of who this course is built for.
Short-answer and multiple-choice, built to help you understand rather than test you against the clock. You can retake them as many times as you need.
Once you are enrolled, you can upgrade the micro-credential to earn formal higher education credit through the college's university partners. That upgrade costs extra and adds assessments, so ask your advisor how it works.
It is CPD endorsed, which is accreditation for professional development: you finish with 39 CPD points employers recognise, plus a Credly digital badge. It is not a nationally recognised qualification. That is a different thing, and you do not need one to start putting these skills to work.
Yes. There is a 7-day cooling-off period. You can switch to another course or get your money back.
This course is delivered by Online Courses Australia, an online training provider. Its courses are designed with institutions, employers and industry experts.
The college is CPD endorsed and issues Credly digital badges with its completion acknowledgements. Lessons run as step-by-step video modules, not dense textbooks. Support runs through a real-world mentor, tutor help by phone and email on weekdays, and live chat seven days a week.
Picture the day your idea stops being a maybe: first customers, money coming in, and a business with your name on it.