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Digital Transformation & Change Management

Niveau

Second cycle, Master

Learning outcomes of the courses/module

The graduate / the student:
* knows significant trends in the field of digitalization for companies
* can evaluate the potential that digital transformation offers companies and describe development paths for their own company
* knows the challenges that digital transformation poses to traditional companies
* knows the importance of smart products in the context of digitalization
* can derive a digitalization strategy from a divisional strategy
* knows the importance of change management for the introduction of products / services
* knows the most important approaches, models and terms
* understands the individual and social aspects of change and knows the main causes of resistance and conflicts
* knows procedural models or methods, techniques and tools for change management
* can integrate the topic of change management in change projects and can apply procedural models or methods, techniques and tools to specific practical cases

Prerequisites for the course

according to admission requirements

Course content

• Digital trends and waves of change
• Difference between digital and traditional companies or their development paths
• Design levels, framework conditions and challenges of digital change
• Frameworks for the assessment of digital maturity
• Smart products
• Development
• Ecosystem IoT and data
• Use cases of smart products and solutions
* Importance of change management
* Individual and social aspects of change
* Resistance, conflict and crisis
* Basic approaches to change management
* Types of change
* Models of change (e.g. Lewin, GE-CAP, etc.)
* (Project) management of change: Generic phase
* Models of change (e.g. Lewin, GE-CAP, etc.)
* (Project) management of change: Generic phase model and integration in projects
* Techniques and tools of change (e.g: Target circle, change stretch, WIIFM, empathy map, etc.)


Recommended specialist literature

Caudron J., Van Peteghem D.V.; Digital Transformation: A Model to Master Digital Disruption; BookBaby; 2016
Rauser A.; Digital Strategy: A Guide to Digital Business Transformation; North Carleston; 2016
Doppler K., Lauterburg Ch.; Change Management: Den Unternehmenswandel gestalten; Campus, 13. Auflage, 2014
Berner W., Change!: 15 Fallstudien zu Sanierung, Turnaround, Prozessoptimierung, Reorganisation und Kulturveränderung, Schäfer Poschl, 2. Auflage, 2015
Kotter J.P.; Leading Change; Harvard, 2011

Assessment methods and criteria

Examination, Seminar thesis

Language

English

Number of ECTS credits awarded

5

Share of e-learning in %

30

Semester hours per week

2.5

Planned teaching and learning method

Lecture, group work, presentation and discussion of tasks

Semester/trimester in which the course/module is offered

1

Name of lecturer

DI Roland Sommer, MBA Mag. (FH) Ing. Fritz Bischof, MA, MA

Academic year

1. study year

Key figure of the course/module

DIT.1

Type of course/module

integrated lecture

Type of course

Compulsory

Internship(s)

not applicable