Code: S2C4
ECTS: 6
Semester: 2nd
This itinerant seminar offers a dynamic and immersive learning experience focused on the strategic and operational aspects of digital transformation management. Through a combination of site visits to leading organizations, expert lectures, interactive workshops, and real-world case studies, participants will gain a deep understanding of how businesses across various sectors are navigating the challenges and opportunities of the digital age.
Overview of digital transformation as a strategic, managerial, and organisational process; observation and analysis of real-world transformation initiatives through site visits, case-based exploration, or practitioner-led sessions; digital maturity, organisational readiness, and transformation drivers; innovation management, organisational change, and leadership in digitally evolving environments; adoption of digital technologies in different sectors and institutional settings; challenges related to culture, resistance, governance, skills, and stakeholder alignment; practical frameworks for analysing transformation strategies and implementation pathways; comparative reflection across cases and contexts; development of preliminary transformation roadmaps and critical discussion of success factors, barriers, and ethical implications in digital transformation management.
- Search, analysis and synthesis of data and information, with the use of the necessary technology
- Adaptability to new situation
- Decision-making
- Team work
- Working in an international environment
- Working in an interdisciplinary environment
- Project planning and management
- Respect for difference and multiculturalism
- Showing social, professional and ethical responsibility and sensitivity to gender issues
- Criticism and self-criticism
Upon successful completion of the course, students will be able to:
Knowledge
- describe strategic, organisational, and cultural dimensions of digital transformation management;
- identify key frameworks for digital maturity assessment, organisational change, and innovation management;
- understand diverse real-world approaches to digital transformation across sectors and contexts.
Skills
- analyse case studies and field experiences of digital transformation initiatives;
- evaluate organisational needs, transformation priorities, and implementation challenges;
- formulate preliminary transformation roadmaps grounded in practical observation and strategic reasoning.
Competences
- connect theory with professional practice through critical reflection on observed transformation processes;
- engage productively with stakeholders from different disciplines, sectors, and cultural contexts;
- demonstrate awareness of the managerial, social, and ethical complexity of digital transformation.
