Digital Transformation
95-722
Units: 6
Description
This course serves as a capstone course integrating technological and managerial aspects of information technology. We will take the culmination of your previous learning of technological and managerial subjects and apply it to real-world scenarios. Each section will consider the information and communication technologies that play multiple roles within an organizational context through two perspectives:
- From a technological perspective, these define the information and communication infrastructures of the firm and they enable new ways to digitize business processes.
- From a managerial perspective, these facilitate new coordination and communication within and across entities, enable new organizational forms, change the information environment underlying the business, and permit new incentive structures.
Learning Outcomes
Analyze and interpret transformations of IT in the four areas of competitive advantage, org structure, industry structure, and institutional policy.
Analyze and interpret methods of productivity growth through modern interpretations of digitized input and output drivers.
Distinguish between and systematically assessing components of change through sustaining and disruptive technologies with proper management of demand and supply-side drivers.
Identify and examine key technological challenges and rewards from systems innovations, first-mover advantages and disadvantages, and the potential disruptions or opportunities to culture, cross-industry collaborations, design thinking, and trust.
Prerequisites Description
None but generally taken during your last semester in your graduate degree program.