LEARNING OUTCOMES
The course provides an in-depth understanding of digitalization and its implications for corporations. The student will gain an understanding of the key technological changes and their impact on management, organizing, and work. The course covers the impact of big data, artificial intelligence, and various mobile technologies on business models and ecosystems across retail, service, and manufacturing industries, and elaborates how these changes are reflected in strategy, organizational design, and work roles.
Skills:
-Students will be able to analyze digital disruption of industries and to create realistic scenarios of potential development paths.
-Students will be able to assess and design business models that take advantage of digital data and formulate business development plans that take advantage of modular architectures and platforms.
-Students are able to scrutinize existing business processes and assess how their digitalization.
Credits: 6
Schedule: 10.01.2022 - 10.02.2022
Teacher in charge (valid for whole curriculum period):
Teacher in charge (applies in this implementation): Henri Schildt
Contact information for the course (applies in this implementation):
CEFR level (valid for whole curriculum period):
Language of instruction and studies (applies in this implementation):
Teaching language: English. Languages of study attainment: English
CONTENT, ASSESSMENT AND WORKLOAD
Content
valid for whole curriculum period:
The course introduces the key drivers behind on-going "digitalization" and its transformative effects on industries, companies, and management practice. The course examines digital transformation from the perspectives of strategy, management practice, organizational design, and work processes.
Assessment Methods and Criteria
valid for whole curriculum period:
1. Participation and contributions in the classroom (10%)
2. Group assignments, including peer evaluation (20%)
3. Individual assignments (70%)
Workload
valid for whole curriculum period:
Lectures 30h
Assingments (individual work) 70h
Readings & self-study videos 30h
Group assignments 30h
Total 160h (6 ECTS)
DETAILS
Study Material
valid for whole curriculum period:
Course book: A course book: Schildt Henri: The Data Imperative: How Digitalization is Reshaping Management, Organizing, and Work
ISBN: 9780198840817 (https://ebookcentral.proquest.com/lib/aalto-ebooks/detail.action?docID=6372391)Articles
Case studies
Podcasts
Substitutes for Courses
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Prerequisites
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FURTHER INFORMATION
Further Information
valid for whole curriculum period:
Students are admitted to the course in the following priority order 1) MIB/ISM/Global Management/CEMS, 2) Entrepreneurship and Innovation Management/IDBM, 3) Other students
Participation at the lectures is MANDATORY.
Teaching Period:
2020-2021 Autumn II, Spring III
2021-2022 Autumn II, Spring III
Course Homepage: https://mycourses.aalto.fi/course/search.php?search=21E00052
Registration for Courses: In the academic year 2021-2022, registration for courses will take place on Sisu (sisu.aalto.fi) instead of WebOodi.