Digital Transformation Practices

2024/2025

Academic Year

ENG

Instruction in English

3

ECTS credits

Delivered at:

Department of Business Informatics and Operations Management

Course type:

Compulsory course

When:

1 year, 4 module

Instructors

Окусков Иван Сергеевич

Романцов Семен Денисович

Course Syllabus

Abstract

In the course of studying the students will learn the objectives and methods of digital transformation, technological trends, practical cases of digital transformation of businesses, approaches to formulating concepts and developing digital transformation roadmaps.

Learning Objectives

• Introduction to main technological trends and solutions shaping activities of various organizations.
• Introduction to modern sociotechnical approaches to digital transformation of organizations.
• Formation of basic theoretical and methodological knowledge allowing to assess and analyse digital industry disruptions, estimate their socio-economical potential, application boundaries and influence on organizational structures, policies and cultures.
• Study of digital transformation cases to understand possible effects and barriers of digital transformation.

Expected Learning Outcomes

• • Understanding of differences between the traditional (‘analogue’) and digital business models, monetization methods and workflows
• • Understanding of systemic interconnection and interactions between the technological and the social elements (actors) in the process of digital transformation.
• • Ability to analyse instrumentality of various digital technologies in terms of their prospective use in digital transformation projects.
• • Ability to formulate a concept of digital transformation in a concise and perception-friendly form.
• • Ability to draw a roadmap of digital transformation of an organization.

Course Contents

• 1. Digitization of processes in sociotechnical systems. Basic concepts.
• 2. Technological transformation of society in late Anthropocene.
• 3. Go smart: how to assemble a puzzle of technologies, people, workflows and organizational culture.
• 4. Trajectories of digital transformation of experience economy in the epoch of consumer interest shift from ‘bread’ to ‘circuses’, and changes in availability of traditional experiences driven by global challenges:

Assessment Elements

• Intermediate evaluation
• Exam

Interim Assessment

• 2024/2025 4th module
  0.6 * Exam + 0.4 * Intermediate evaluation

Bibliography

Recommended Core Bibliography

• Svetlana Ashmarina, Anabela Mesquita, & Marek Vochozka. (2020). Digital Transformation of the Economy: Challenges, Trends and New Opportunities. Springer.
• Tugrul U Daim. (2020). Digital Transformation: Evaluating Emerging Technologies. World Scientific.

Recommended Additional Bibliography

• Isabell M. Welpe, Prisca Brosi, & Tanja Schwarzmüller. (2018). Digital Work Design : Die Big Five für Arbeit, Führung und Organisation im digitalen Zeitalter, plus E-Book inside (ePub, mobi oder pdf). Campus Verlag.
• Matt, C., Hess, T., & Benlian, A. (2015). Digital Transformation Strategies. Publications of Darmstadt Technical University, Institute for Business Studies (BWL). Retrieved from http://search.ebscohost.com/login.aspx?direct=true&site=eds-live&db=edsrep&AN=edsrep.p.dar.wpaper.75002
• Nambisan, S., Lyytinen, K., Majchrzak, A., & Song, M. (2017). Digital Innovation Management: Reinventing Innovation Management Research in a Digital World. MIS Quarterly, 41(1), 223–238. Retrieved from http://search.ebscohost.com/login.aspx?direct=true&site=eds-live&db=bsu&AN=121204229

Authors

• Орлова Екатерина Дмитриевна