Digital; Developing and managing digital organisations

Digitisation is occurring at an accelerating pace; Successful leaders need to synchronise their organisations to the digital clock speed. The disruption of many industries are putting pressure on organisations to develop new capabilities and transform their cultures. The Digital specialisation will help you to develop as a ‘digital leader’, and we can promise you a steep learning curve!

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Digital specialised courses

Digital Business Models
Digitalisation changes the business models by which companies create value for their customers and their owners. Established companies use digital technologies to help them operate their businesses with greater speed and lower costs and, in many cases, offer their customers opportunities to co-design and co-produce products and services. Many start-up companies use digital technologies to develop new products, services, and business models that disrupt the present way of doing business. Examples include sharing services, crowd sourcing and crowd funding services. Other products and services that are fully or partially digital include news and entertainment, as well as advanced AI based diagnostic and problem-solving services. In this course, participants will learn how to use digital technologies to transform established businesses and how to understand, develop and strategically manage the recent types of businesses that arise from digital technologies.

Machine Learning for Executive Decisions
Digitalisation creates high speed, high volume digital activity traces – Big Data. Using recent advances in machine learning, organisations can use these data to automatically build models that predict specific events in real-time. Managers can use machine learning-based analytics to improve a wide variety of tasks ranging from targeted marketing to preventative maintenance to fraud detection. The course will give participants hands on experience with cutting edge analytics tools and techniques. Participants will gain insight into how big data analytics can improve business processes and decision making.

Design Thinking for Digital Development
Digital development requires new design methods. This module, provided at a partner institution, provides participants with an intensive introduction to Design Thinking, specially its application to digital development. The provides the experience of hands-on team-based solution development within short time-frames. Teams will run through the complete Design Thinking process, working on a real-life project and coming up with solutions to an actual problem – including user research and testing. Participants will also visit companies running cutting-edge digital design thinking initiatives. Upon completing this module, participants will be able to apply design thinking to digital development efforts as well as run dynamic strategy processes.

Organising and Leading Digitally
Participants will learn about the demands facing leadership roles in a digital work environment. Leadership will be presented as a cognitive process, outlining how digital technologies have and will blend into the traditional ways that leadership has been conceived. These developments will have consequences for internal processes such as the ways we organise, and the way leaders understand their roles. Participants will learn about how the traditional role of leadership needs to adapt to the changing nature of work in the digital age, how leadership relates to entrepreneurship and innovation, and how digital technologies, as a value-creating resource, may affect leadership.