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  • Materials

    • Session #1, January 9th - "Digital Disruption and Digital Transformation"

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      Session 1. The Data Imperative Chapter 1 File
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      Session 1. Video #1: Welcome to the course! URL
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      Slides from session #1 File
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    • Session #2, January 12th - "The data imperative"

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      Session 2. The Data Imperative Chapter 2 File
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      Session 2. Case study: Percolata YouTube video URL
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      Session 2. Video #1: Data-related technologies URL
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      Session 2. Video #2: The data imperative (short) URL
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      Session 2. The Data Imperative Game URL
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      Session 2. Slides from session #2 File
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    • Session #3, January 16th - "Data analytics and AI"

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      Session 3. The Data Imperative, Chapter 6 File
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      Session 3. The AI Podcast episode 1, Deep Learning 101 URL
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      Session 3. The AI Podcast episode 70, Capital One URL
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      Session 3. Video URL
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      Session 3. Slides from session 2023.3 Data Analytics File
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    • Session #4, January 19th - "Complexity and modularity"

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      Session 4. The Data Imperative, Chapter 4 File
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      Session 4. Case study: Relex Solutions File
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      Session 4. Video: modularity URL
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      Session 4. Slides from session #4 File
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    • Session #5, January 23rd - "Agile organizations and the digital transformation process"

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      Session 5. The Data Imperative, Chapter 5 File
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      Session 5. McKinsey: Unlocking success in digital transformations URL
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      Session 5. Video #1 URL
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      Session 5. Slides from session #5 File
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    • Session #6, January 26th - "Self-managed organizations and digital work"

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      Session 6. Holacracy: A Radical New Approach to Management | Brian Robertson | TEDxGrandRapids URL
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      Session 6. Self-managing organizations: Exploring the limits of less-hierarchical organizing File
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      Session 6. Experiments in algorithmic governance: A history and ethnography of “The DAO,” a failed decentralized autonomous organization. File
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    • Session #7, January 30th  - "Digital strategies and platforms"

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      Session 7. The Data Imperative, Chapter 3 File
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      Session 7. Cusumano et al. 2020 article URL
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      Session 7. Cusumano et al. 2020 file
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      Session 7. Case study: Tagwalk (FT) File
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      Session 7. Video #1 URL
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      Session 7. Video #2 URL
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      Session 7. Slides from session #7 File
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    • Session #8, February 2nd - "Data: legal, ethical, and ecosystem perspectives"

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      Session 8. Video: Jeremy Rifkin on the zero marginal cost society URL
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      Session 8. Evans (2022). There is no such thing as Big data. Financial Times May 27, 2022. URL
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      Session 8. Zuboff (2015). Big other: surveillance capitalism and the prospects of an information civilization. Journal of information technology, 30(1), 75-89. File
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      Session 8. Slides from session #8 File
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    • Session #9, February 2nd - "The future of digitalized business"

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      Session 9. The Data Imperative, Chapter 8 File
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      Session 9. Case study: Stitch Fix Algorithms Tour (please revisit this, looking specifically at impact on work) URL
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      Session 9. Video URL
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      Session #9 slides File
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    • Optional extra materials for interested students

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      Suggested extra readings File
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