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Designed with senior management and digital leadership in mind, this introductory course offers an essential deep dive into the world of digital transformation, equipping you and your teams with the knowledge - and confidence - for your organization to prosper.
Taught by a team with practical experience in the field, the session identifies the foundations of digital transformation. You'll learn what it takes to embrace digital change, gain knowledge around the larger context of a digital agenda, and start to understand the tools required to enable it.
Throughout the session, you'll also learn about the risks that come with shunning digital transformation, and the potential challenges you'll face both internally and externally on the way to successful implementation.
This Introduction to Digital Transformation course is available as a private training session that can be delivered via Virtual Classroom or at a location of your choice in South Africa.
Course overview
Who should attend:
This course is ideal for leaders and decision-makers operating within organisations; including C-Suite, senior management team members, and digital leaders.
What you'll learn:
By the end of this course, you should be able to:
- Define the key traits and characteristics of digital transformation
- Understand the positive impact digital transformation can bring to an organisation
- Understand the risks of not embracing digital change
- Identify the different types of digital transformation, and who they affect
- Use key tools to address some of the challenges involved in the implementation process
- Identify the key success components required to facilitate an effective digital transformation
Course agenda
- Why are we talking about digital transformation?
- What the research shows
- Group discussion: what are your baseline perceptions around digital transformation?
- What does the term 'digital transformation' mean?
- What does it mean to us as leaders - and what does it mean for our business?
- Analysis of the many definitions, and building a relatable action statement and definition
- Understand the need to thrive, via digital change, as a need to survive
- Explore and discover the immense power and opportunities digital transformation can introduce for any organisation ready to embrace it
- The different formats of transformation
- Explore the four types: business, culture, process and domain
- How will each type will affect different parts of your business simultaneously?
- How do businesses need to react to these type of changes to maintain efficiency?
- Difficulties implementing digital transformation
- What are the elements we can manage and impact?
- How should these be managed to ensure a successful implementation?
- Summarize the key learning points
- Open group discussion and take-away statements
Next Steps:
If, after taking this course, you're interested in developing your practical skills in digital transformation, we recommend our follow-on course, Implementing Digital Transformation Effectively.