How Kurios Can Help Latin American Professionals Boost Their Tech Careers

The lag in Latin America’s innovation and digitalization has posed a unique challenge for local businesses. Many struggle to source talent with the necessary skills and resources to help steer the growth of their organizations.

In response, Carlos Lau and Luis Ubillas founded Kurios, a learning platform catering to businesses seeking to create a dynamic tech workforce in Latin America. Kurios also offers its top-tier courses to individual professionals, giving them an accessible platform to upskill and gain a competitive edge to thrive in their careers.

Kurios Courses for Latin America’s Tech Talent

The workplace can be an intense environment where employees are constantly evaluated on what they can bring to the table. This is not surprising as having a team of skilled, efficient, and adaptable employees is vital to a company’s success. That said, professionals are always on the lookout for ways to better themselves and stay on top of the game.

Kurios has curated courses suitable for professionals across different industries to build fundamental knowledge and mold their skills in four areas: Growth, Product, Data, and Digital Foundations. In effect, LatAm professionals can drive positive results to the organizations they belong to and catapult their careers to greater heights.

Here’s a breakdown of what to expect from each Kurios course.

Productivity in the Digital Era

• Price: $99
• Duration: 2 weeks of online and live sessions

The explosion in technological development brought us powerful tools for anything and everything. While the influx of such tools benefits many organizations and individuals, the biggest challenge professionals face is how to integrate them effectively into their work and increase their productivity.

Throughout the course, Kurios will teach you best practices in improving your productivity and remaining agile in a modern workplace. The course also dives deep into understanding the production cycle and the different frameworks you can implement. Aside from increasing your productivity at work, the course can also be applied to your daily life.

Among the course class leads are Gonzalo Saenz, on-demand delivery company Rappi’s Product Lead; and Francisco Martino, drug subscription company Cuida’s Business Lead.

Digital Foundations

• Price: $142
• Duration: 2 weeks of online and live sessions

An organization’s digital foundation is the culmination of different aspects. This includes a deep understanding of the digital transformation that companies are implementing en masse and digital tools that are weaved into every business process, to name a few.

In a nutshell, it is the framework that holds an organization’s digital presence together. But before one can establish a digital foundation, the process starts with having a digital-ready workforce. If you are a business leader, a manager, or a team leader, the Digital Foundations course can walk you through how you can create a digital-ready team.

Kurios gets you to the next level by introducing new business models that can help you boost your strategies. The course also delves into different technologies that you can leverage in achieving milestones. Finally, you’ll be able to integrate a mindset that is customer-obsessed, agile, and data-driven among your teammates.

Growth 101

• Price: $199
• Duration: 2 weeks of online and live sessions

Anyone with the right resources and ideas can start a business, but only a few can stay afloat and expand in a competitive landscape. Case in point, about 20 percent of businesses close within their first two years. Growth strategies are becoming popular and are regarded as the main driving force for a company’s success.

However, more than knowing the different growth strategies, it is crucial to have the ability to determine which strategy you can apply based on your organization’s core competencies, circumstances, and goals.

Growth 101 is a great first step for business leaders and managers to discover effective strategies that have helped renowned tech companies accelerate their success in a short period. The class leaders will walk you through different growth concepts essential in attracting and retaining customers, turning them into brand advocates. By the end of the course, you will have a good grasp of how to identify growth opportunities, address growth challenges, and effectively map out a strategic growth game plan.

Luis Pablo Cheng-Fung was working as a Business Development Lead at Siderperu, a steel and iron manufacturer, when he realized his need to refine his growth management skills. He shares, “[Taking] Growth Strategy [course at Kurios] helped me grasp the key concepts to scale a product and immediately apply them in the areas that I lead, generating growth. It gives you tools to better understand your customers’ needs.”

Yuvit Tavara, Banco de Credito del Peru’s Growth also credits Kurios for helping her develop a solid understanding of growth strategies. Through Kurios’ Growth 101 course, she gained the confidence to make the right decisions.

Yuvit says, “[The] Growth Strategy [program] provides you with valuable skills to scale a product from scratch. Whether it is defining a north star metric, building a growth engine, or how to execute and measure impact to iterate and sustain growth over time, the course has it all.”

Digital Product Management

• Price: $430
• Duration: 6 weeks of online and live sessions

The number of digital products available has grown astronomically, creating steep competition among tech companies. From software programs, website or design-builders, and online courses, to apps, audiobooks, and wearables, among others.

In addition to the changing customer demands, constant technology innovation, and the growing number of digital channels, digital product management can be a complex task to accomplish.

By enrolling in Kurios’ course, unravel the best practices of effective digital product management and get your footing while refining your core skills. The course covers different topics including market research, product management frameworks, and product development techniques like minimum viable products (MVP) and other best practices.

According to Giancarlo Morote Siccha, taking the digital product management course at Kurios helped refine his knowledge and skills in product management, thereby giving him the boost that he needed in his career. It is through the course’s highly relevant curriculum that Giancarlo was able to ideate and build products efficiently.

Giancarlo says, “The skills I developed [at Kurios]…immediately drive business impact. They are also transferable to a broad set of industries. The course is built on real-world case studies that are interactive and engaging. Highly recommended!”

Working Backwards

• Price: $430
• Duration: 3 weeks of online and live sessions

This course zeroes in on one of the most vital mindsets to have in a digital era: customer obsession.

Many companies develop products based on what is already available out there. But putting great focus on the competition may lead you to disregard integrating excellent customer experience in your products.

The Working Backwards method is an unorthodox strategy popularized by Amazon, where the product development team reverses the process of creating a product. The method begins with the product team drafting a press release about a concept product describing what it is for and why people should purchase it. From here, the company can gain insights as to whether the product is worth developing, work the process on how to develop it efficiently, and how the team can ensure it remains consumer-centric.

The result? Your team is likely to build products that customers will love.

The Working Backwards course helps you build fundamental knowledge about the method. It teaches you how you can adopt a customer-obsessed mindset, design and write PRFAQ documents, and implement the Working Backwards method efficiently.

Data-Driven Decision Making

• Price: $199
• Duration: 2 weeks of online and live sessions

Every day, we produce 1.7MB of data every two seconds. This averages to about 2.5 quintillion bytes every single day. In other words, it’s a lot of data, leading businesses to use them in propelling growth. Case in point, renowned data-driven organizations have experienced over 30 percent annual growth.

The good news is anyone can adopt and implement this process—whether you work in a small or big business. The Data-Driven Decision-Making course aims to equip you with the knowledge and tools on how to harness the power of data and leverage it to drive growth.

The course tackles data-centric concepts, like how to analyze and interpret data and turn them into actionable strategies. It delves into how data can also be an instrumental tool to identify and define growth opportunities.

In this course, you will learn from data experts, including Francisco Martino Gonzalez, a data and analytics manager with over 10 years of experience in business intelligence and data analytics.

Take the Kurios Path to Career Success

There are many learning platforms available online, but what sets Kurios apart is that its courses are designed specifically for the Latin American market.

Kurios students are taught industry-relevant skills and knowledge within the region, especially in digitally-driven industries. The courses also adopt a flexible model that allows professionals to learn part-time without interrupting their daily activities. Moreover, the platform has an incredible completion rate of 90 percent. A strong indication that its students find Kurios courses pivotal because what they learn is widely applicable.

Finally, Kurios’ dedication to carving a supportive community of learners and elite professors is what makes LatAm professionals and businesses trust the platform. To date, Kurios has trained over 4,000 professionals across the region, including Peru, Colombia, and Mexico.

Each course provides a free trial that gives you an overview of what to expect. Don’t know where to start? Get in touch with Kurios.