Advanced academic (and educational) transformation projects (ATP) are crucial for academic institutions and enterprise (or professional) transformation projects (ETP). Unfortunately, ATPs and ETPs are highly complex and have high failure rates, because of the lack of experienced professionals with polymathic capabilities and business' reality that is based on simple accountants' fast return on investment (ROI). Polymathic capabilities and skills need the definition of a holistic educational concept and curriculum, which starts in the primary and secondary schools or cycles (PSC). PSC are the jumpstart, because during this period polymathics capable students can be detected. An RTBL4US-based interdisciplinary core (RbIC) ensures educational sustainability and future operational excellence for future ETP managers, but the main problem is the adoption of a holistic cross-functional approach. The RbIC includes various domains and topics related to enterprise (re)organization, societal changes, business/financial, and artificial intelligence.
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A Polymathic concept, promotes the development of an interdisciplinary core and project-based learning for future ETP/ATP project’s managers, analysts, or architects. This chapter uses the author’s Applied Holistic and Poly-Mathematical Model (AHMM) for ETPs/ATPs (AHMM4TP). The AHMM4TP based RTBLP4UC, combines various academic, educational, and ETP/ATP (simply Project) fields that can include dynamic business engineering/transformation, enterprise (re)organization, frequent societal changes, business/finance, AI, Project Management (PM), mathematics/algorithms, Information and Communication Systems (ICS), Enterprise Architecture (EA), geoeconomics, and geopolitical analysis, and other. This RDP is strongly linked to all the author’s works and findings that are used to prove RTBLP4UC’s feasibility and to offer an RbIC for the University cycle which in turn dependence on the secondary school cycle (Trad, 2023a). RbIC’s topics/courses are mandatory ones which students must go through. All the author’s works have a multi-dimensional concept to RDPs and Projects, because it includes: 1) An adapted research and development concept; 2) Shows how to build an in-house transformation framework, to avoid locked-in; 3) Uses an methodological approach that is based EA and AI; and 4) A Polymathic and Interdisciplinary Group Work In Complex Projects (PIGW4CP) (Trad, & Kalpić, 2023a) that was previously in author’s works. The PIGW4CP is built on the Team-Based Learning’s (TBL) as its main component; and the TBL can be used to support a corresponding University Polymathic core curriculum for future profiles that manage transformation projects, as shown in Figure 1. Where Projects are can have major economical impacts. The TBL and RTBLP4UC use integrated: Critical Success Areas (CSA), Critical Success Factors (CSF), Key Performance Indicators (KPI), Concrete ICS variables (CSAs, CSFs, and KPIs, are refered to as simply Factors), An authentic research and transformation framework, and An integrated heuristics based Decision Making System (DMS). The TBL supports all types of ATP for the Secondary Cycle’s (ATP4SC) and ATP for University Cycle’s (ATP4UC) activities, and uses current educational technics, standards, methodologies, local habits, and also Legacy Siloed Common Academic/Educational System (LCSAS) practices.