Learn how to benchmark an organisation’s digital transformation capabilities

On this two-week course, you’ll explore the ten areas of organisational capability that have most impact on a digital transformation. You’ll also learn how to benchmark an organisation and use these insights to plan and implement your digital transformation strategy.

Explore the top ten digital transformation capability factors

You’ll be introduced to the top ten areas of capability that drive digital transformation success. These include leadership, team ability, market readiness, resources, strategy, governance, infrastructure, measurement, financial and innovation capabilities.

Using capability benchmarking tools, you’ll learn how to carry out a high-level audit of an organisation to highlight areas where it is performing well and areas where there may be challenges during its digital transformation. Using these tools, you’ll be able to surface insights about differences in attitudes and opinions, which can be useful for stakeholder management. You’ll also have access to benchmarking data to compare similar organisations with one another.

Learn about digital capability benchmarking from digital experts

Learning from digital experts Target Internet, you’ll discover the common factors that impact transformation success or failure.

By the end of this course, you’ll know how to conduct a digital transformation capability benchmark audit to plan and implement your transformation strategy.

What topics will you cover?

Digital transformation success and failure factors
The digital transformation capability benchmark
Organisational benchmarking
Capability factors for information gathering and stakeholder management

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What will you achieve?

By the end of the course, you‘ll be able to...

Define the ten key areas of organisational capability
Explain how these factors can help or hinder a digital transformation
Describe the process for benchmarking your organisation in terms of digital transformation capability
Explain why it’s important to benchmark against other organisations
Understand the benefits of benchmarking for stakeholder management

Who is the course for?

This course is ideal for anyone who would like to develop their understanding and confidence in digital transformation. You don’t need any prior digital transformation knowledge to join, although any work experience will help contextualise and enhance your learning.

This course is delivered and explained in a way that’s suitable for beginners or those with some experience of digital transformation.

Who will you learn with?

Daniel Rowles

MD TargetInternet.com - helping upskill the world's leading organisations in Digital Marketing & Digital Transformation.

Host of the Digital Marketing Podcast, a global top 20 business podcast.

Who developed the course?

The Open University

As the UK’s largest university, The Open University (OU) supports thousands of students to achieve their goals and ambitions via supported distance learning, helping to fit learning around professional and personal life commitments.

Established
1969
Location
Milton Keynes, UK
World ranking
Top 510Source: Times Higher Education World University Rankings 2020

Target Internet

Target Internet delivers digital training to some of the world’s leading organisations, as well as building online learning that is used in over 100 countries worldwide. As publishers of the global Digital Marketing Skills Benchmark and the Digital Marketing Podcast, they have unrivalled access to market insights and expertise.

About this ExpertTrack

Learn how digital transformation works and the factors that impact an organisation’s successful transformation.

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