Digital Transformation and Innovation

OBJECTIVES

At the end of this Digital Transformation and Innovation training course, you will learn to:

• Develop your understanding of digital leadership
• Give you opportunities to explore and learn how digital leaders can leverage and exploit new technologies for innovation and growth.
• Provides you with a further insight into the digital landscape
• Identify how a business can increase sales and return on investment with new technology
• Construct a matrix of necessary organisational competences to effectively use new technologies in business practice
• Enhance the management and strategy of a business through digital technologies such as: mobile apps, Internet of Things, Cloud computing and data analytics 
• Align business and Information Technology (IT) strategies and apply within the workplace, overcoming the constraints and challenges of using Information Technology (IT)
• Benchmark your organisation against other industrial players and identify the key features for superior than industry-average performance

WHO SHOULD ATTEND?

• Functional Managers
• Project Managers
• Senior Managers
• General Managers
• Heads of Department
• Aspiring Managers who wish to develop their skills in Business Leadership

COURSE OUTLINE

Day 1

Business Leadership in the Digital Era

• Technology Leadership
• Digital Leadership Challenges and Experience
• Three Dimensions of Digital Leadership
• Customer Needs in the Digital Era
• Industry and Occupational Differences in Digital Skills

Day 2

Technology-Enabled Disruptions

• Leading Technological Forces Disrupting Today’s Business Environment
• Mobile and Cloud Computing
• Big Data and Business Analytics
• Why industry players failed to respond to potentially disruptive changes?
• Identify Technology-led Disruptions in Your Own Industry
• Identify Shifts Required to Respond to Disruptive Changes

Day 3

Online Business Models

• What are internet business models?
• Five Primary Types of e-Commerce Models
• Business Models Characterizing a Variety of Digital Goods Companies
• Building an Efficient Strategic Alignment Model
• Factors that Constrain an Enterprise from Using Information and Communication Technology

Day 4

Designing Information Capabilities for Competitive Advantage

• Conventional vs. Digital Competitive Advantages
• Roles of Information Technology (IT)  in Designing Information Capabilities that Provide End-to-End Value Chain Visibility
• Capabilities Driving the Competitive Advantage of Companies like Walmart and Amazon
• Outline the Ingredients of Information Technology (IT) – enabled competitive advantages
• Design Supply Chains that Transform Your Cost of Operations

Day 5

Social Networks and Enterprise 2.0

• Practical Use of Social Media
• Internet of Things and Internet Plus
• Network Information Technology (IT)  that Facilitates Unstructured Interactions in Organizations
• Leveraging Network Information Technology (IT) to Radically Improve Information Flows and Decision-making
• Debates and Group Collaboration to Use Technologies