Leading digital transformation

The course focuses on the leader role and leading digital transformation. This includes firstly central leadership principles and theories, and secondly more specifically team leadership, virtual leadership, and leading hybrid work. IT leadership and new digital leader roles are also covered in the course. The course covers how leaders in different ways can facilitate digital transformation. The role of artificial intelligence (AI) is also covered in the course.

After completing the course, the following overall learning outcomes must be achieved:

Knowledge

Students must:

• Have knowledge of the role of leaders in digitalisation and digital transformation
• Have knowledge of leading teams
• Have knowledge of leading hybrid work and virtual teams
• Have knowledge of more distributed leadership approaches such as shared leadership
• Have knowledge of leading hybrid work as a part of digital transformation
• Have knowledge of IT leadership and new digital leader roles
• Be able to apply knowledge to find out how a leader should act as a facilitator, in processes of digital transformation
• Have knowledge about how emergent technologies based on artificial intelligence (AI) affect how digital transformation is managed
• Have knowledge of how leaders can contribute with respect to the psychosocial working environment and social sustainability in the workplace in digital transformation.

Skills

Students must:

• Be able to apply specialist knowledge to practice a facilitating leadership style in a company that work with digitalisation and digital transformation.
• Be able to apply specialist knowledge to achieve good communication and collaboration between different disciplines in the organization.
• Be able to apply specialist knowledge to implement necessary changes and adjustments in the companies.

General competence

Students must:

• Be able to convey subject matter about leadership concepts that contributes to companies achieving their goals of digital transformation in an inspiring, motivating and cost-effective way.

Student-active interaction learning with utilization of relevant interaction technology, as well as lectures.