MIT Sloan School of Management
Digital Business Strategy: Harnessing Our Digital Future
Integrate transformative technologies into your business strategy, and leverage their benefits to drive your organization forward.
Start date
07 April 2021
Enroll by 30 March 2021
Course duration
6 weeks
Excluding orientation
Language
English
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Effort
5–8 hours per week
Self-paced learning online
Course overview
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Duration: 6 weeks (excluding orientation)
The MIT Sloan Digital Business Strategy: Harnessing Our Digital Future online short course investigates the principles that frame research by esteemed MIT faculty, and The New York Times best-selling authors, Erik Brynjolfsson and Andrew McAfee. This program focuses on a unique approach to finding a balance between traditional methods and new ways companies can harness transformative technology to improve best practices.
With an emphasis on enabling effective digital transformation, this MIT Sloan Executive Education online program focuses on the rebalancing of three key relationships: human minds and machines, physical products and digital platforms, and the core (centralized knowledge) and the crowd (decentralized knowledge). It’s through these lenses that you’ll explore the potential of disruptive technology for business, equipping you to drive innovation within your own organization. Throughout the online short course, you’ll be encouraged to apply your newfound business strategy insights to real-life scenarios, and you’ll ultimately walk away with an MIT certificate of completion.
Is this course for you?
This digital transformation-focused online program aims to provide CEOs, managers, C-suite executives, and entrepreneurs with the knowledge they need to analyze traditional business strategy models, and adapt these in light of current disruptive technologies. It’s also valuable for professionals with strategic decision-making responsibilities across a range of industries. Similarly, it will be beneficial to any member of a senior leadership team looking for a transformation-centered course in order to stay abreast of how the global business context is changing.
Course overview
Introduction
Duration: 6 weeks (excluding orientation)
The MIT Sloan Digital Business Strategy: Harnessing Our Digital Future online short course investigates the principles that frame research by esteemed MIT faculty, and The New York Times best-selling authors, Erik Brynjolfsson and Andrew McAfee. This program focuses on a unique approach to finding a balance between traditional methods and new ways companies can harness transformative technology to improve best practices.
With an emphasis on enabling effective digital transformation, this MIT Sloan Executive Education online program focuses on the rebalancing of three key relationships: human minds and machines, physical products and digital platforms, and the core (centralized knowledge) and the crowd (decentralized knowledge). It’s through these lenses that you’ll explore the potential of disruptive technology for business, equipping you to drive innovation within your own organization. Throughout the online short course, you’ll be encouraged to apply your newfound business strategy insights to real-life scenarios, and you’ll ultimately walk away with an MIT certificate of completion.
Is this course for you?
This digital transformation-focused online program aims to provide CEOs, managers, C-suite executives, and entrepreneurs with the knowledge they need to analyze traditional business strategy models, and adapt these in light of current disruptive technologies. It’s also valuable for professionals with strategic decision-making responsibilities across a range of industries. Similarly, it will be beneficial to any member of a senior leadership team looking for a transformation-centered course in order to stay abreast of how the global business context is changing.
What will set you apart
An understanding of the key features of digitization for business success in the digital economy, guided by esteemed MIT Faculty.
The knowledge to identify new opportunities for innovation and drive digital growth within your organization.
Effective strategies to ensure your business stays ahead of digital disruption.Course curriculum
Orientation module
Welcome to your Online Campus
Module 1
Introducing digital transformation
Module 2
Artificial intelligence
Module 3
Platforms in a digital economy
Module 4
The platform revolution
Module 5
Harnessing the crowd
Module 6
Limits to decentralization
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What past students
think
Todd Balazs
Director, Digital Group Naval Air Systems Command
I’ve been leading our organization’s digital transformation journey and wished I had taken the [course] two years ago. The [course] addresses the changes your organization can make with digital transformation being an enabler, not just an initiative.
Faculty Directors
Erik Brynjolfsson
Professor, MIT Sloan School of Management Director, MIT Initiative on the Digital Economy
Andrew McAfee
Co-director, MIT Initiative on the Digital Economy
Earn a certificate of completion from MIT Sloan
Learn how to improve business strategies to support digital transformation and earn an MIT Sloan certificate of completion.
This program also counts towards an MIT Sloan Executive Certificate, which you can earn upon completion of four programs where at least three of the four come from your chosen certificate track and at least one is completed in person. Find full details here.
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