MIT Sloan School of Management
Organizational Design for Digital Transformation
Prepare for digital transformation by focusing on your organization’s design and operational backbone.
Start date
12 February 2025
Course duration
6 weeks
Excluding orientation
Language
English
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Effort
6–8 hours per week
Self-paced learning online
Course overview
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Duration: 6 weeks (excluding orientation)
As technology advances and shapes various industries, many companies want to adopt large-scale digital transformation to enhance their results and stay ahead of competitors. Established businesses must develop and implement new technology and organizational capabilities to thrive in the digital economy.
The MIT Sloan School of Management provides an online short course on Organizational Design for Digital Transformation, which examines the five critical dimensions of digital transformation in-depth. Faculty Director Jeanne Ross explains how successful transformation can occur when systematically driven, and these five dimensions form the fundamental design principles for organizations seeking to leverage new technologies for innovation. Additionally, the program explores how business leaders can challenge deeply ingrained, traditional practices by influencing their organizational mindset.
Over the six-week course, you'll learn how to facilitate digital transformation within your company through business design and strategy. Upon completion, you'll earn an MIT Sloan digital certificate that can be earned online and at your own pace.
Is this course for you?
The program is tailored for executives in various sectors committed to prioritizing digital transformation and improving their digital business models. Leaders at the middle, senior, and executive levels, including C-suite executives, can take advantage of this chance to interact with industry experts within the MIT network. They can also learn to utilize different digital technologies to create new value propositions for their clients.
Course overview
Introduction
Duration: 6 weeks (excluding orientation)
As technology advances and shapes various industries, many companies want to adopt large-scale digital transformation to enhance their results and stay ahead of competitors. Established businesses must develop and implement new technology and organizational capabilities to thrive in the digital economy.
The MIT Sloan School of Management provides an online short course on Organizational Design for Digital Transformation, which examines the five critical dimensions of digital transformation in-depth. Faculty Director Jeanne Ross explains how successful transformation can occur when systematically driven, and these five dimensions form the fundamental design principles for organizations seeking to leverage new technologies for innovation. Additionally, the program explores how business leaders can challenge deeply ingrained, traditional practices by influencing their organizational mindset.
Over the six-week course, you'll learn how to facilitate digital transformation within your company through business design and strategy. Upon completion, you'll earn an MIT Sloan digital certificate that can be earned online and at your own pace.
Is this course for you?
The program is tailored for executives in various sectors committed to prioritizing digital transformation and improving their digital business models. Leaders at the middle, senior, and executive levels, including C-suite executives, can take advantage of this chance to interact with industry experts within the MIT network. They can also learn to utilize different digital technologies to create new value propositions for their clients.
What will set you apart
The ability to assess the digital strengths and priorities of your organization. 
Tools for updating your existing processes and systems as a digital company.
An analysis of the key components that will enable rapid digital innovation.
Insights into balancing autonomy and alignment within an accountability framework.
Recommended next steps for your long-term digital transformation plan.Course curriculum
Orientation module
Welcome to your Online Campus
Module 1
Designing for digital business success
Module 2
Achieving operational excellence
Module 3
Customer desires and digital solutions
Module 4
Digital design: Enabling rapid innovation
Module 5
Creating an effective innovation culture
Module 6
Implementing digital transformation
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Faculty Director
Jeanne Ross
Principal Research Scientist, MIT Sloan Center for Information Systems Research
Earn a certificate of completion from MIT Sloan
Over six weeks of online learning, gain the expertise to enable successful digital transformation and earn an official digital certificate of completion from MIT Sloan.
This program also counts toward 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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