For the past several years, we have seen many industries (including government) that were transformed by digital technology. Every business/organisation is concerned about being disrupted by technology. Every large organisation’s Board and CEO are looking for business/IT leaders who can help them navigate through this disruption and want to gain competitive advantage and business value by leveraging these technologies.
This is an SMU-X course focusing on IT trends and Digital Transformation Strategy. It aims to help students understand and leverage on the latest IT trends to transform businesses. Students will work on real life business problems in the course term projects. For this course, you will learn a digital transformation strategy framework and work with real life organisations (private or public sector) in proposing such a strategy for them. You will learn the following:
- Key technology trends, their use cases and best practices
- Business value of IT and why it is important
- Business strategy and digital strategy frameworks – including digital ambition and digital KPIs
The aim of this course is to equip you with a framework in which you can build digital transformation strategy for organisations, and help implement this strategy not just from a technology perspective but include business perspective and organisation change perspective. This will in turn help you gain a competitive advantage when you are seeking a new job or improve on your effectiveness by delivering strategic value to your organisation.
Upon completion of the course, students will be able to:
1. Gain better understanding of IT management principles and best practices, which include IT Strategy that deliver business value, IT Governance, IT enabled innovations, IT Capabilities management etc
2. Apply the knowledge gained to propose Digital Business Transformation Strategy that enables organisations to better exploit Cloud Computing, Mobile Computing, Social Computing, Advanced Analytics, Internet of Things, AI etc. in delivering business value
3. Understand the challenges relating to management of change in a business setting
Students developed a practical and creative 3-year strategic proposal via digitalisation and technological adoption to increase brand awareness.