Digital Transformation in Organizations

The course develops the students´ understanding and knowledge regarding digital transformation within the organization.

Key contents are:

• Understand how companies plan and implement digital transformation.
• Research and case studies on the digitalization process
• Academic research on business models, organizational capabilities, and implications of the digital transformation
• Tools and insights into how to develop the ecosystem and create customer value to implement digital strategy

Key topics include:

• Understand digital transformation and digital strategy
• Business model innovation
• Agile project management
• Digital transformation and customer value creation

Completion of the course will enable students to:

Knowledge:

• Advanced knowledge about how companies plan and implement digital transformation.
• Wide insight into the key concepts related to business models, organizational capabilities, and implications of digital transformation.

Skills:

• Can participate in the planning and execution of digital transformation in organizations.
• Can cooperate with customers for the value creation.
• Be able to understand and analyze different issues related to digital transformation in organizations
• Able to apply tools and insights to implement digital strategy.

General competencies:

• Can identify areas of risk and opportunity in digital transformations
• Can identify the reasons why many companies resist digital change and what you can do to overcome that resistance
• Can leverage system thinking about digital transformation in an organization.

The course will consist of a combination of lectures, group work, case discussions and student presentations.