DMDT : Digital Strategy and Digital Transformation

Catalog of Institut Mines-Télécom Business School courses

Code

MGFE MAN 5201

Level

M2

Field

Management

Language

Anglais/English

ECTS Credits

3

Class hours

24

Total student load

20

Program Manager(s)

Department

  • Technologies, Information et Management

Educational team

Introduction to the module

The topics that will be covered under this course involves:
1. Designing a Digital Business Strategy
2. Role of IT for Businesses
3. Role of Top Management and IT
4. Organizational Strategy; Synchronizing IT and Strategy.
5. Changemanagement for digital transformation projects

Learning goals/Programme objectives

  • LG2 Having the ability to manage uncertainty and complexity with accuracy and rigor
  • LG4 Having access to different cross disciplinary management approaches and tools

Learning objectives/Intended learning outcomes

  • 2.1 - Identify and analyze in depth problems, causes and impacts
  • 2.2 - Explore solutions, decisions, and their relative and absolute impacts
  • 4.2 - Understand and employ cross-disciplinary concepts, knowledge, theories
  • 4.3 - Apply cross-disciplinary management approaches and tools effectively and judiciously

Content : structure and schedule

Sessions #1 and #2 on digital strategy, competitive advantage, synchronizing IT and business strategy.
Sessions #3 to #6 will be on understanding the changing landscape of role of IT and implementing change management strategy and techniques in digital transformation projects

Learning delivery

synchrone

Pedagogical methods

Case study discussion and used cases
Lectures
Context based learning

Evaluation and grading system and catch up exams

Upon 20 marks :
- 50% class participation
- 50% project presentation

Module Policies

Professor-Student Communication
● The professor will contact the students through their school email address (IMT-BS/TSP) and the Moodle portal. No communication via personal email addresses will take place. It is the student responsibility to regularly check their IMT-BS/TSP mailbox.
● Students can communicate with the professor by emailing him/her to his institutional address. If necessary, it is possible to meet the professor in his office during office-hours or by appointment.

Students with accommodation needs
If a student has a disability that will prevent from completing the described work or require any kind of accommodation, he may inform the program director (with supporting documents) as soon as possible. Also, students are encouraged to discuss it with the professor.

Class behavior
● Out of courtesy for the professor and classmates, all mobile phones, electronic games or other devices that generate sound should be turned off during class.
● Students should avoid disruptive and disrespectful behavior such as: arriving late, leaving early, careless behavior (e.g. sleeping, reading a non-course material, using vulgar language, over-speaking, eating, drinking, etc.). A warning may be given on the first infraction of these rules. Repeated violators will be penalized and may face expulsion from the class and/or other disciplinary proceedings.
● The tolerated delay is 5 minutes. Attendance will be declared on Moodle during these 5 minutes via a QR code provided by the teacher at each course start.
● Student should arrive on time for exams and other assessments. No one will be allowed to enter the classroom once the first person has finished the exam and left the room. There is absolutely no exception to this rule. No student can continue to take an exam once the time is up. No student may leave the room during an examination unless he / she has finished and handed over all the documents.
● In the case of remote learning, the student must keep his camera on unless instructed otherwise by the professor.

Honor code
IMT-BS is committed to a policy of honesty in the academic community. Conduct that compromises this policy may result in academic and / or disciplinary sanctions. Students must refrain from cheating, lying, plagiarizing and stealing. This includes completing your own original work and giving credit to any other person whose ideas and printed materials (including those from the Internet) are paraphrased or quoted directly. Any student who violates or helps another student violate academic behavior standards will be penalized according to IMT-BS rules.

Textbook Required and Suggested Readings

- Sunil Mithas, Digital Intelligence: What Every Smart Manager Must Have for Success in an Information Age. Finerplanet 3rd edition, 2015.
- David M. Kroenke, Using MIS. Pearson Education International, 2009.
- George Westerman, Didier Bonnet, and Andrew McAfee, The Nine Elements of Digital Transformation. Published in 2014, online at https://sloanreview.mit.edu/article/the-nine-elements-of-digital-transformation/, accessed June 15, 2023
- Dave Evans, Post COVID-19, The Answer Is Digital Transformation, Now What’s The Question? Online at https://www.forbes.com/sites/daveevans/2020/05/19/post-covid-19-the-answer-is-digital-transformation-now-whats-the-question/, accessed June 15, 2023

Keywords

Digital strategy, sychronization of IT and Strategy, IT strategy, competitive advantage, changemanagement

Prerequisites

None