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Digital transformation challenges existing IT Leaders to change direction and bring their people with them. New digital leadership will need to move from an operations mindset to a strategic one where IT issues are strategically defined at the executive and business level. New digital leaders will not necessarily come from IT and organisations may bypass IT leaders who are too slow to react to the new digital challenges. Digital leaders will need to be hybrid thinkers, possessing advanced technical literacy as well as an entrepreneurial and innovative instinct. Additionally, it will be crucial that they have the ability to build relationships and garner executive support. Digital leaders will also need to be able to facilitate intra-disciplinary collaboration. It will also be the responsibility of digital leaders to incentivise and encourage flexibility, creativity, ideation, collaboration and delegation bounded by a clear, unified and constructive vision. In this digital world, failure is seen as a learning opportunity, rather than something to be avoided at all costs.
Students will learn to define a digital business leadership capability to support organisations in maturing their required business, digital, and IT capabilities, in order to enable digital business transformation. Students will learn to demonstrate an understanding organisational change and digital transformation by investigating and modelling the interconnections across business-IT capabilities targeted for maturity improvement.
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