Leading Digital Strategy and Transformation

Programme Outline

Learning Objectives and Structure

By the end of this module, participants would be able to:

  1. Develop skillsets for formulating and driving digital strategy and digital transformation
  2. Understand how change driven by digital transformation may affect your value chain and value generation
  3. Draw the “big picture” on different technological innovation drivers and business model disruptors
  4. Learn the key elements for creating and capturing value through digital strategies, data monetisation, and digital platforms business

Programme Structure: Participants will go through 4 days of training. Class will reconvene on the 5th day for a presentation as part of the course assessment.

 

Day 1
  • Introduction to the module and faculty, program flow and pre-assignments.
  • Learning of key concepts from pre-reading material set by professors
  • Preparation of cases set by professors
  • Identification of personal learning goals of the current module set by oneself.

 

Day 2
  • Introduction to platform economy (group work)
  • Platform value generating mechanism, platform types, and five distinct network externalities (group work)
  • Development of innovative platform services and solutions (group assignment)
  • Presentation and evaluation of innovative platform services and solutions
  • Platform governance (group assignment)
  • Data business models (group assignment), case Patientslikeme
  • Managing platform growth (group assignment), case TikTok
  • Key take-home points and reflection
  • Data, machine learning, and digital capabilities
  • Digital modularity and the changing nature of innovation
  • Competitive advantage in digital business
  • Agile and adaptive forms of organising
  • Creating a digital vision
  • Crafting a digital transformation roadmap
  • Leading digital transformation
  • My next steps

 

Day 3
  • Introduction to the future world and technological disruptions
  • Impact on the future state of work
  • The modern organisation
  • Change in the digital age
  • Introduction to organisation culture and change management
  • Barriers to change

 

Day 4
  • Introduction to the Competing Values Framework
  • Case Study 1 – Managing culture change in major transitions
  • Digital tools for culture transformation
  • Introduction to the “Culture Acceleration Toolkit and Methodology”
  • Case Study 2: Do a mini sprint to design a change process using digital tools
  • Presentation of Sprint by groups – Future of Digital Tools in Change
  • Summary and wrap up

 

Day 5
  • Project Presentation

 

Assessment

Multiple methods of assessment are used to provide an opportunity for the participant to demonstrate their learning results with a variety of learning styles.

These include:

  • Pre-assignment due before in-class session
  • Class contribution
  • In-class assignments (group work and presentations during the module)
  • Take-home assignment due after in-class session

 

Subject Credits

Upon completion and satisfying the requirements of passing this course, learners will be awarded 12 subject credits.

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