Discover how to plan an organisation’s digital transformation journey

What should you consider when planning and executing an effective digital transformation?

On this two-week course, you’ll examine the key factors of a successful digital transformation strategy. From defining a clear scope and managing stakeholders to identifying the right type of transformation for your organisation and choosing your strategic approach, you’ll be guided through each component to ensure your digital transformation is a success.

Explore key factors you need to consider when planning a digital transformation strategy

You’ll learn the difference between digitisation, efficiency and effectiveness, improvements, and digital innovation, and discover what transformation looks like in different organisations. After considering different strategic approaches and reflecting on the opportunities and pitfalls of each, you’ll find out how to identify the right strategy for your organisation using planning frameworks and define the key stages of a transformation plan.

You’ll also explore the role of stakeholder management in driving success. You’ll investigate the importance of developing a shared understanding of what ‘digital’ means, consider the value of stakeholder mapping and management, and discover ways you can gain buy-in.

Develop essential skills required for the future work landscape

With practical training content created by The Open University in collaboration with experts at Target Internet, you’ll finish this course with the skills to successfully plan an organisation’s digital transformation journey.

What topics will you cover?

Scope of digital transformation
Aligning understanding of what digital means
Stakeholder mapping and management
Types of transformation
Digital transformation strategy

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Learning on this course

On every step of the course you can meet other learners, share your ideas and join in with active discussions in the comments.

What will you achieve?

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

Define the scope of a digital transformation
Assess the different levels of understanding of digital transformation within an organisation
Understand the different types of digital transformation
Explain the difference between digitisation and transformation
Define different strategic approaches to transformation

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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