Curriculum

Develop your awareness of technologies and learn strategies and tools for taking action on your own digital transformation initiatives.

What are the key technologies driving change for business?
How can these technologies enable new strategic opportunities?
How do you implement the right digital strategy for your organization?

Digital Transformation: Leading Organizational Change presents a comprehensive curriculum to help you find answers and take action. If you want to get ahead of the competition, increase efficiency, or improve profitability, the curriculum empowers senior-level executives with limited technical knowledge to drive digital initiatives with greater competence, clarity, and confidence.

Key Themes

Faculty from Stanford Graduate School of Business and School of Engineering will deliver a powerful and practical learning experience. Each day will focus on a key theme:

Day 1: Leveraging AI and New Technologies
Day 2: Using Data Analytics
Day 3: Identifying Business Opportunities
Day 4: Implementing Digital Initiatives
Day 5: Leading Organizational Change

Experiential Learning

The rigorous and forward-thinking curriculum is designed to move you from awareness to action. The program encompasses technology foundations, strategic frameworks, case studies, communication skills, and daily, collaborative working sessions. You’ll maximize your learning by creating a Digital Transformation Action Plan that you can implement when you return to work.

Stanford Expertise

Gain insights from the leading minds in AI, data analytics, innovation, organizational behavior, operations, communication, and more. It’s a uniquely Stanford experience designed to empower senior-level executives to initiate and lead successful digital transformation efforts.

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Program Highlights

Below are just a few of the sessions you’ll attend as part of the program.

Leveraging the Power of AI

Whether we like it or not, data analytics, machine learning, and AI are becoming increasingly prevalent in organizations, from shaping decisions about hiring to managing customer engagement. In this non-technical session, we will take a broad view on data, understanding what data-based tools are capable, and incapable, of doing. The data-driven leader needs to know how to use data, but also be aware of the many pitfalls data introduces. Learn how successful leaders rely on data for predictions, but must not outsource their strategic vision to algorithms.

Building a Digital Company and Strategy

This session explores the increased importance of data and digital technologies, particularly for non-high-tech businesses. We will consider trends and technologies pushing businesses to become more digital. We will develop a framework for thinking about the value of data and how companies have gone about capturing that value. Finally, we will briefly touch on the unintended consequences of becoming more digital, including issues of data privacy and security.

The Challenge of Change

When companies are successful, they have all the resources and capabilities to stay on top. Yet companies are increasingly losing their competitive edge because they fail to leverage their resources to respond to threats. To avoid this “success syndrome” and adapt to change, managers must be effective at executing incremental innovation and leading revolutionary or discontinuous change — they need to be ambidextrous.

This session introduces the idea of the success syndrome and the role of leadership and culture in overcoming it. It begins with a quick review of the evidence and provides a framework that managers can use to diagnose the culture in their own organizations.

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