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If you are looking to take your career to the next level, the executive and professional courses and certificate programs offered by the NextGen Enterprise Academy are built for you. As technology has become a key driver of efficiencies and innovation in modern organizations, any executive or emerging leader in the organization needs to acquire the skills to use and manage the new technologies by continuously learning and upskilling with programs like ours.
At the NextGen Enterprise Academy we offer training for executives and professionals that is focused on advanced emerging technologies, such as AI, FinTech, Blockchains, AR/VR, Internet of Things (IoT), and Quantum Computing, as well as enterprise systems training so participants get a unique understanding of how the next-gen technologies can be integrated with their existing IT infrastructure for a seamless boost to their organizations’ business processes and operations.
Our courses and certificates are designed for executives and professionals who are looking to the future and are ready to help their organizations use their enterprise systems and next-gen technologies to achieve a sustainable competitive advantage. The courses are designed and taught by leading faculty experts with industry experience, as well as academic research experience.
Courses are delivered in a hybrid format, with mostly one or two in-person class meetings in the evenings at the Western New England University campus in Springfield, MA, and online work that will be completed on the Batoi Academy platform.
Executive Certificate in AI: Practical Skills and Compliance
Program Overview:
This program is for participants who want to upskill and learn the fundamentals of the evolving AI technology landscape and best practices to lead and successfully adopt in their organization. Successful graduates will be able to:
- Design clear task instructions and input patterns for reliable outputs (summaries, briefs, emails, reports).
- Utilize workplace AI assistants across documents, spreadsheets/email with guardrails for accuracy and audit trails.
- Build a 90‑day adoption plan (use case, ROI, risks, metrics) ready for leadership review. This is a Capstone Project: “Workplace AI Playbook + 90‑Day Adoption Plan” for a participant chosen function (operations, customer service, compliance, PMO, etc.).
- Apply policy/compliance basics for their sector and maintain records.
- Defend a pilot proposal in a board‑style simulation.
Dates: November 3–December 5 (includes 1-week holiday break for Thanksgiving)
Virtual Class Meetings: Mondays at 6:00–8:00 p.m. and Wednesdays at 6:00–8:00 p.m. on the weeks of November 3, 2025; November 10, 2025; and November 17, 2025
In-person Class Meetings: Friday, December 5, 1:00–5:00 p.m.
Venue: Churchill Hall, Conference Room 230, Western New England University
Fee: $1,499.00
Instructor: To be announced
Upon successful completion, participants will be awarded a digital certificate issued/verified on Batoi Bridge; stacks into Skill Mastery pathways of Batoi Academy and jointly offered by Western New England University.
Professional Certificate in Enterprise Systems
This program is for participants who want to upskill and learn how enterprise resource planning (ERP) systems are used to integrate an organization’s processes and eliminate information silos. Using the industry’s leading ERP system, SAP S/4HANA participants gain practical experience on how to translate the business processes, such as order-to-cash and procure-to-pay from concepts to workflows and actual inputs that the enterprise users in the different departments input into the ERP system. By completing the courses in this module participants gain an enterprise view of how a modern organization functions and how new tools like SAP Signavio may be integrated with the ERP system to implement agentic AI solutions for the call centers or claims processing centers, as well as digital twinning solutions for the factory floor. The courses are taught by a team of experienced faculty at Western New England University who have been using SAP for in-class exercises in the curriculum for courses on business process, operations management, information systems, and project management for more than two decades.
Each course in this program may be taken individually for a stackable certificate. Upon successful completion of any five (5) courses in the program, participants will be awarded a Professional Certificate in Enterprise Systems
Course Prerequisites: There are no formal educational requirements; however, fluency in written and spoken English is required. Also required is access to a computer that can access the web for the hands-on exercises.
