What you will study
Throughout this course, you’ll benefit from expert insight into the essential factors needed for successful digital transformation. Practical exercises will help you to apply your new knowledge, and the social learning approach will empower you to further enhance and reflect on your understanding by sharing your thoughts and opinions with co-learners.
Delivered over four, easy-to-digest sections, you will cover:
1: Digital transformation in perspective
- Defining digital transformation
- What is the technology catalyst for transformation?
- What does a digital transformation look like in practice?
- Why digital transformations fail
- What defines a successful digital transformation?
- Digital transformation leadership and strategy
2: Planning your digital transformation journey
- Scope of digital transformation
- Aligning understanding of what digital means
- Stakeholder mapping and management
- Types of transformation
- Digital transformation strategy
3: The Digital Capability Benchmark
- Digital transformation success and failure factors
- The digital transformation capability benchmark
- Organisational benchmarking
- Capability factors for information gathering and stakeholder management
4: Transformation insights and case studies
- Practical transformation success and failure factors
- The digital transformation capability factors
- Digital transformation interviews
- Digital transformation case studies
Please note: the content in this course also features in courses created by The Open University and Target Internet, which are available on FutureLearn.
You will learn
By the end of the course, you’ll have the skills to:
- define digital transformation and its objectives
- understand the core aspects of digital transformation and its impact on organisations
- assess the digital capability of an organisation to support decision-making
- analyse different digital transformation challenges
- explore different approaches to achieving a successful digital transformation.
Vocational relevance
Digital transformation is a must-have skill in the current job market. Businesses across industries are using digital technologies to improve operations, customer experiences, and stay competitive. Professionals who can lead digital transformation are in high demand, as it's now a key differentiator for businesses and a valuable asset for career growth.
This course has been created by the OU in collaboration with industry experts, Target Internet, who deliver digital training to some of the world’s leading organisations, as well as building online learning that is used in over 100 countries worldwide.
Learner support
There is no tuition on this course and all study is self-directed. Throughout the course, you will have the opportunity to enhance and reflect on your understanding by sharing your thoughts and opinions with co-learners.