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MIT Sloan School of Management: Digital Business Strategy: Harnessing Our Digital Future

Integrate transformative technologies into your business strategy, and leverage their benefits to drive your organization forward.

Integrate transformative technologies into your business strategy, and leverage their benefits to drive your organization forward.

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6 weeks
5–8 hours per week
Starts Mar 12, 2025
Enroll by Mar 18, 2025
Instructor-paced
Instructor-led on a course schedule
6 weeks
5–8 hours per week
Starts Mar 12, 2025
Enroll by Mar 18, 2025
Instructor-paced
Instructor-led on a course schedule

About this Course

The MIT Sloan Digital Business Strategy: Harnessing Our Digital Future online short course investigates the principles that frame research by esteemed MIT faculty and The New York Times best-selling authors, Erik Brynjolfsson and Andrew McAfee. This program focuses on a unique approach to finding a balance between traditional methods and new ways companies can harness transformative technology to improve best practices.

With an emphasis on enabling effective digital transformation, this MIT Sloan Executive Education online program focuses on the rebalancing of three key relationships: human minds and machines, physical products and digital platforms, and the core (centralized knowledge) and the crowd (decentralized knowledge). It’s through these lenses that you’ll explore the potential of disruptive technology for business, equipping you to drive innovation within your own organization. Throughout the online short course, you’ll be encouraged to apply your newfound business strategy insights to real-life scenarios and ultimately walk away with an MIT digital certificate of completion.

This digital transformation-focused online program aims to provide CEOs, managers, C-suite executives, and entrepreneurs with the knowledge they need to analyze traditional business strategy models, and adapt these in light of current disruptive technologies. It’s also valuable for professionals with strategic decision-making responsibilities across a range of industries. Similarly, it will be beneficial to any member of a senior leadership team looking for a transformation-centered course in order to stay abreast of how the global business context is changing.

Course curriculum

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Explore the transformative power of technology as you work through the weekly modules of this online program.

Orientation module: Welcome to your Online Campus

Module 1: Introducing digital transformation

Module 2: Artificial intelligence

Module 3: Platforms in a digital economy

Module 4: The platform revolution

Module 5: Harnessing the crowd

Module 6: Limits to decentralization

Earn a certificate of completion from MIT Sloan

Gain expertise in enhancing business strategies to facilitate digital transformation and earn a digital certificate of completion from MIT Sloan.

This program also counts toward an MIT Sloan Executive Certificate, which you can earn upon completion of four programs where at least three of the four come from your chosen certificate track and at least one is completed in person. Find full details here.

Your certificate will be issued in your legal name and sent to you digitally upon successful completion of the program, as per the stipulated requirements.

Some facts about the subject

100%

The increase in digital sales, year over year, after the restaurant chain Chipotle upgraded its mobile apps to improve customer experience.

Deloitte (May, 2020).

$6.8 trillion

The forecasted amount that businesses will spend by 2023 on technologies and services to enable digital transformation.

IDC (Oct, 2020).

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