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: 23.10.2023 - 23.11.2023
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:
Interactive sessions 28h
Assingments (individual work) 70h
Readings & self-study videos 32h
Group assignments 30h
Total 160h (6 ECTS)
DETAILS
Substitutes for Courses
valid for whole curriculum period:
Prerequisites
valid for whole curriculum period:
SDG: Sustainable Development Goals
8 Decent Work and Economic Growth
9 Industry, Innovation and Infrastructure
10 Reduced Inequality
FURTHER INFORMATION
Further Information
valid for whole curriculum period:
Teaching Language : English
Teaching Period : 2022-2023 Autumn II
2022-2023 Spring III
2023-2024 Autumn II
2023-2024 Spring IIIEnrollment :
Students are admitted to the course in the following priority order 1) Management and International Business / Strategic Management in a Changing World / Information and Service Management / Global Management / CEMS students, 2) Entrepreneurship and Innovation Management / IDBM students, 3) BIZ exchange students, 4) Other students