AT600 – Digital Transformation of Businesses & Organizations
Master of Science in Green and Digital Management
Core Course
AT600 – Digital Transformation of Businesses & Organizations
Course Unit Code: AT600
Type Of Unit: Core
Level of Course Unit: Second cycle
Year of Study: First year
Semester: Modular
Number of ECTS Credits: 6
Class Contact Hours: 28
Mode of Delivery
Face to Face
Prerequisites
None
Course Objectives
Digital transformation is the transformation of business and organizational activities, processes, competencies and models in order to fully leverage the opportunities of a mix of digital and emerging technologies and their accelerating impact across society and economy in a strategic and prioritized way, with present and future shifts in mind. Upon completion of this course, students will be equipped with the necessary and sufficient knowledge and skill-set to drive their enterprises and organisations into digitalisation.
Learning Outcomes
- Understand emerging technologies and their impact on modern enterprises and organisations.
- Understand the basic methodologies and design principles underpinning a digital transformation process.
- Understand the importance of data and data analytics for improving a business upon efficiency, costs and operations.
- Understand the risks of an organisation being left behind digital innovation.
Course Content
Digital transformation and its five domains (customers, competition, data, innovation, value).
Building an agile business: agile, lean, principles of agile principles, scaling issues, design issues.
Case studies
Introduction to emerging technologies (Blockchain, DLTs, Artificial Intelligence, Cryptocurrencies) and the technology lifecycle
Course Features
Planned learning activities and teaching methods
Lectures; in-class discussion and debates; in-class exercises; problem sets; team work; video case studies, team presentations, interactive online learning via Moodle (quizzes, assignments, forums)
Assessment methods and criteria
10% Class participation
30% Mid-Term project
60% Final Examination
Language of Instruction
English
Work Placement(s)
Not applicable
Readings
Textbooks:
1. Neil Perkin and Peter Abraham. Building the Agile Business through Digital Transformation.KoganPage Publisher. 2017
2. David Rogers. The Digital Transformation Playbook: Rethink Your Business for the Digital Age.Columbia Business School Publishing. 2016
Optional textbook:
3. Lindsay Herbert. Digital Transformation. Bloomsbery Publisher. Oct 2017
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