BlendED hereby certifies that credential BLD-MS-202605-001 has been conferred upon Jolin Chua in formal recognition of completing Strategic Innovation in the Age of AI — a MasterSeries program in the AI+X Programs portfolio, taught by Blade Kotelly, Senior Lecturer at MIT in the Bernard M. Gordon-MIT Engineering Leadership Program, to the standards established by BlendED AI+X Programs.
By completing this program to the standards of AI+X Programs, Jolin Chua has demonstrated the ability to:
Distinguish invention from innovation by articulating value capture as the operational distinction and identifying AI failure patterns rooted in overinvestment in invention.
Apply a structured innovation process using the three-part innovation model to diagnose AI deployment failures across multiple pillars.
Allocate resources across innovation horizons by defending the 70/20/10 split with risk-management, revenue-pressure, and long-term-return reasoning.
Analyze maturity across AI industry layers by distinguishing dominant-design stages of model architecture, business models, and regulation with concrete jurisdictional examples.
Map stakeholders and identify opportunity areas using boundary maps and outcome grids to surface unmet needs, constraints, and risks in early-stage work.
Design with ethics, inclusion, and unintended consequences by surfacing algorithmic bias and integrating inclusive design into proposed solutions.
Synthesize frameworks with historical analogy by arguing which systems require re-engineering for AI using the electricity general-purpose-technology parallel.
Develop persuasive narratives for innovation by communicating technical ideas through stakeholder-aware, data-grounded, empathetically framed storytelling.