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Instructors: Imke Grashoff; Prof. Dr. Jan Christof Recker
Event type:
Lecture + practical course
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Hours per week:
3
Language of instruction:
English
Min. | Max. participants:
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Comments/contents:
Firms find themselves at the crossroads between digital innovation and transformation. New and emergent digital technologies, such as artificial intelligence, IoT, blockchain, or microprocessors, offer new opportunities for the creation of new infrastructures, products, processes, business models and organizational forms, and reshape traditional ways of organizing and working. At the same time, digital technologies are also increasingly more affordable and accessible to everyone, embedding themselves into society and altering the ecosystems in which firms operate. This fusion of digital technology within firms’ environments produces ongoing changes in customer expectations, the competitive landscapes, and regulation. Windows of opportunities are created for new ventures and new ways of working. At the same time, the lowering of entry barriers and proliferation of new digital ventures, in some cases involving new platform business logics that have the potential to disrupt existing industries, puts large established firms under significant competitive pressure to transform their legacy systems and reshape their business strategies and processes. It is no longer only startups who innovate digitally and are leveraging the new opportunities provided by digital technologies, new ways of working, and the associated market changes. Large and small incumbents across a great diversity of different industries and geographies are embracing digital innovation activities, and as they scale them, they transform their entire organization. Within and across organizations, digital technologies give rise to new ways of collaboration, leveraging resources, development, and deployment over open standards and shared technologies. Firms are moving from stand-alone organizations to open, collaborative eco-systems in which multi-firms’ networks collaboratively innovate with partners, suppliers, customers, and even competitors.
This unit will introduce and discuss knowledge relevant to organizational leaders, directors, and other roles about managing technology-enabled organizing phenomena such as IT-enabled innovation, transformation, or other change processes.It will introduce key characteristics of technology in our current so-called digital age. It will discuss which technology-related resources and capabilities organizations require to maintain or improve their business models. It will explain how digital innovation, transformation, infrastructure, and ecosystem management must be managed. Particular emphasis will also be given to the management of emerging artificial intelligence-based technologies.
Learning objectives:
Learning outcomes
Students learn to…
...Apply discipline and technical knowledge and skills to analyse and evaluate technological influences on a range of managerial questions.
…Identify relevant technology management resources and capabilities.
…Select and evaluate different approaches to digital innovation management.
…Critically appraise different forms of digital transformation management.
…Identify key leadership challenges in managing artificial intelligence.
… acquaint themselves with the scholarship of world class research faculty in the areas of digital innovation and transformation.
… learn some of the leading issues, theories and methodologies that characterize research in in the areas of digital innovation and transformation.
Contents
The following list of topic exemplifies the contents covered:
- Traditional technology management
- The advent of the digital age
- Digital Innovation Management
- Digital Transformation Management
- Digital ecosystems
- Management of Artificial Intelligence
Didactic concept:
The course will consist of biweekly lectures of 3h length followed by biweekly practical tutorials of 1.5h length. See the syllabus for more details.
Literature:
Relevant papers and other reading materials will be announced and/or made available in due time.
Amongst others, materials from the following textbooks will be used:
- Nambisan, S., Lyytinen, K., & Yoo, Y. (Eds.). (2020). Handbook of Digital Innovation. Edward Elgar Publishing.
- Kane, G. C., Phillips, A. N., Copulsky, J. R., & Andrus, G. R. (2019). The Technology Fallacy: How People Are the Real Key to Digital Transformation. MIT Press.
- Boland, R. J., & Collopy, F. (Eds.). (2004). Managing as Designing. Stanford University Press.Teece, D. J. (2009). Dynamic Capabilities & Strategic Management: Organizing for Innovation and Growth. Oxford University Press.
Additional examination information:
Written Individual Exam (100%) of 60 minutes length.
The exam will be completed as an electronic take-home exam. More details will be provided once available.
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