Module 1: What is Digital and IT Strategy?

• Introduction of key concepts

  • Digital and IT strategy
  • Digital disruption
  • Transformation

Module 2: The Strategy Journey

• Alignment of the digital and IT strategy journey with the continual improvement model

Module 3: What is the Vision?

• Types of digital disruptions
• Factors that impact organizations
• Examples of digital maturity and positioning models
• Guidance on how to craft a compelling digital vision

Module 4: Where Are We Now?

• Assessing an organization’s digital readiness
• Assessing internal and external environments and their impact

Module 5: Where Do We Want to Be and How Do We Get There?

• Strategy cycles and horizons
• Structuring a business case for change
• Selecting the appropriate business model
• Planning a strategy that meets the organization’s objectives relative to its customers, and internal and external environments.
• Framing discussions and obtaining buy-in from key stakeholders

Module 6: Take Action!

• Implementing a digital and IT strategy, including digital transformation, at all levels of an organization
• Structuring, leading and communicating as part of several different types of strategic change initiatives.

Module 7: Did We Get There?

• Measuring the progress and effectiveness of a strategy
• OKRs, CSFs, and KPIs
• Guidance on how to change an existing strategy

Module 8: How Do We Keep the Momentum Going?

• Recommendations on parallel operating models
• Surviving and thriving in a volatile, uncertain, complex, and ambiguous (VUCA) environment
• Continual improvement of the organization’s digital transformation efforts

Module 9: Strategic Capabilities

• Strategic capabilities used through all stages of the digital and IT strategy journey

Module 10: Digital Leadership

• The role of today’s digital leader
• Overview of skills to be developed, for both existing and aspiring leaders.

Module 11: Managing Innovation and Emerging Technologies

• How organizations manage innovation, adopt emerging technologies, and create an environment that fosters innovation

Module 12: Digital Risk

• Potential risks to consider when initiating digital transformation.

Exam Preparation - Assignments

• Students must complete a series of in-course assignments as a formal requirement to the DITS course. The completion of the assignments is a part of the official DITS certification process. After passing the four (4) assignments based on a case study, students will be permitted to schedule their formal DITS examination with PeopleCert.