Digital Leadership Programme
INTRODUCTION
When organisations operating at a faster speed, it must use entrepreneurial thinking to generate innovative ideas that create value for customers, design digital or IT-enabled services quickly using advanced technologies, and build organizational capability to deliver such services to meet customer expectations.
Faster design and delivery of these digital services requires agility within the IT system and business architectures under the co-leadership of IT and business executives. This is in essence the definition of digital leadership a process that is essential to developing and sustaining a culture of innovation by bringing ideas to fruition quickly using an agile IT and business architecture.
Digital leadership is a strategic use of a company s digital assets to achieve business goals. This can be dealt with both organizationally and at an individual level. Looking at it from an individual level, this is often carried out by those responsible for overseeing the digital assets.
Digital leadership ensures that your workers eliminate tasks that wasted time in the past. With the automation of some of these tasks, employees can spend more time on important matters like talking to prospects and attending to customers.
You will become a digitally informed, empowered leader and know how to prepare and help your organization respond more effectively to technology-driven change!
OBJECTIVES
By the end of this course , you will be able to :
Understand digital disruption and its impact, opportunities and threats, plus emerging themes and current trends
Develop a digital action plan to implement into your organisation
Conduct a digital disruption landscape audit for your organisation
Understand the steps required to become a Future Digital Leader
Gain a clear picture on Digital Transformation and common myths, missteps and misunderstandings
Gain a clear understanding of your first steps to implementing a digital transformation project
Learn the tools and strategies needed to help you implement digital transformation projects within your organisation
WHO SHOULD ATTEND ?
This Course ideal for :
Executives with responsibility for digital and/or IT.
Digital and IT managers with ambitions to rise to the top. Chief Information Officers (CIOs).
IT Directors who feel that they need the extra edge
COURSE OUTLINE
Day 1
The Context for Digital
What is digital transformation?
Why does it matter
What does success look like?
Barriers to success
Digital Transformation Roadmap
Customer Centricity
Think Big, Start Small, Scale Fast
Day 2
Understanding the business risks
Types of digital transformation projects
Key business drivers for digital transformation
Emerging technologies and how they are used
Gartner s Hype Cycle
Stages of transformation
Where digital transformation fits within your organisation
Day 3
Understanding your own business readiness
Create a digitally ready culture
Barriers to change
Influencing stakeholders
Stakeholder engagement
Areas ripe for transformation
Collaborative working
Getting buy-in across the organisation Building teams for transformation
Day 4
Developing your Digital transformation strategy
Innovation & digitally disruptive business models
Challenging existing business models
Planning your digital transformation
Running a digital project
Executing your transformation
Tools & methodologies for implementing digital transformation
Review and measuring results
Build your action plan
Day 5
Building Momentum for Change
Enabling the Culture for Digital Embedding Change and Taking Personal Action
Reflection and personal pledges
