Digital Transformation: Innovation Opportunities and Leadership
Keeping yourself and your organization up to date in a competitive market.
With this course, you will identify the impact of digital transformation on your customers and your organization, as well as the specific methods organizations use to prepare for such a change.
Being digital ready means having capabilities for digital and transformation. You will understand how digital capabilities create opportunities throughout the company and how to build the leadership capabilities that make those opportunities happen.
Throughout this course, you will
- Describe the significance, pace, drivers, and organizational implications of digital transformation.
- Identify digital transformation opportunities to improve customer experience, employee experience, business models, and operations
- Understand the important role of leadership capabilities and their place in implementing digital transformation
- Create a transformational strategy and action plan that will drive change in your role and organization

This course is aimed at
- Middle managers and aspiring middle managers who want to start to influence digital transformation readiness within organizations
- Professionals with significant management responsibilities, such as executives or leaders in corporate functions, from across departments and industries
- Individuals planning to change jobs from more traditional business companies to digitally driven business models
- Entrepreneurs, consultants, and professionals from various areas interested in the subject and keen to learn about digital transformation
- Individuals who want to be more ready for today’s fast moving digitally powered business
Certificate
Meet your instructor

George Westerman
Senior Lecturer at the MIT Sloan School of Management and a Principal Research Scientist, J-WEL Workforce Learning
The MIT Learning Experience
Practice processes and methods through simulations, evaluations, case studies, and tools
Connect with an international community of professionals while working on projects based on real examples
Access all online content and watch videos from anywhere
Bring the newly learned skills into your company through examples of technical work environments and good thoughtful prompts.
Earn a Professional Certificate and 4.8 Continuing Education Units from MIT xPRO (MIT xPRO CEUs).
Get training from MIT professors and industry experts
What is the course comprised of?
- Multiple-choice activities
- Interactive contents
- Projects to be developed as a team, adding value to your experience
- Action Plan Activities (Designed to Apply What You Have Learned to Your Own Company)
- Video content taught by mit faculty and experts from different industries
- Live webinars to clear up doubts and discuss what you have learned
- Additional recommended resources
