UCT Graduate School of Business: Digital Transformation Strategy
Understand what it means to be a leader with a strong set of management values.
Understand what it means to be a leader with a strong set of management values.
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Digital Transformation Strategy
About this Course
South African business is lagging in the race to digital transformation: Only a third of companies are effectively embracing the operational changes needed to transform their organizations for a digital future.1 However, it’s a crucial process for making the most of the opportunities these advances can offer and facing the challenges of technological disruption.
This course from the University of Cape Town Graduate School of Business (GSB), will equip you with the skills needed to drive digital transformation through a human-centric approach. Over the course of six weeks, you’ll explore the tools and processes and gain the knowledge needed to lead strategy development surrounding digital transformation and confront the complexities involved.
1 Dell Technologies (2018).
This course is designed for leaders, change agents, and managers who want to drive effective innovation in their organization. You’ll gain an understanding of the benefits of a people-centric approach to digital transformation and learn how to develop a strategic road map applicable to broad business contexts. This course offers you the chance to network with like-minded peers, while benefiting from a strong focus on leadership, agility, and resilience in the digital age. Additionally, you’ll be given the opportunity to validate your strategy development skills with a GSB certificate of completion.
Delve into the realm of customer-centric digital transformation and earn an official certificate of completion from the University of Cape Town Graduate School of Business.
Assessment is continuous and based on a series of practical assignments completed online. In order to be issued with a digital certificate, you’ll need to meet the requirements outlined in the course handbook. The handbook will be made available to you as soon as you begin the course.
Some facts about the subject
92%
The vast majority of organisations enlist the help of a third party when undergoing a digital transformation.
CDW (2018).
$100 trillion
The estimated net benefits digital transformation will provide across industries by 2025.
World Economic Forum (May, 2018).