| CODE | BEM2101 | ||||||||
| TITLE | Innovation,Technology and People at Work | ||||||||
| UM LEVEL | 02 - Years 2, 3 in Modular Undergraduate Course | ||||||||
| MQF LEVEL | 5 | ||||||||
| ECTS CREDITS | 5 | ||||||||
| DEPARTMENT | Business and Enterprise Management | ||||||||
| DESCRIPTION | Digital transformation is the integration of digital technology into every aspect of an organisation, fundamentally changing how it operates and provides value to its customers. It is also a cultural shift that compels organisations to continuously question the status quo, experiment, and become industry leaders. As digital transformation is disrupting entire industries, organisations are struggling to keep up with these changes. This unit will introduce students to Digital Transformation Management. Throughout this programme, students will learn how to implement change in global and diverse teams, apply agile management methods and use innovation techniques to modernise companies and discover new business opportunities. The cultivation of a culture of learning and agility among employees at the workplace is a precursor for successful digital transformation. This requires increased agility and adaptability, strategies to overcome resistance to change and the speeding up of the adoption of new tools, technologies, and processes. Study-unit Aims: This study-unit aims to: - Identify how new technologies can enable digital transformation and disrupt existing industries; - Provide students with an opportunity to learn to combine excellence in the application of technical capacity with interpersonal and leadership skills; - Deepen the context of globalization to which we are exposed to be able to operate in this new culture of continuous innovation; - Discover the technologies that are transforming our societies. Learning Outcomes: 1. Knowledge & Understanding By the end of the study-unit the student will be able to: - explain what digital transformation and innovation is; - illustrate how the digitalisation of services and products has evolved to become embedded in virtually all industrial and economic sectors; - define drivers of the digital transformation and explain essential concepts related to technology's impact on the world of work. 2. Skills By the end of the study-unit the student will be able to: - demonstrate through technology aspects of facilitating change management and operations; - build an extensive background knowledge of data transformation can be utilised in the workplace. Main Text/s and any supplementary readings: Main Reading - Saldanha, T. (2019). Why digital transformations fail: The surprising disciplines of how to take off and stay ahead. Berrett-Koehler Publishers. Supplementary Readings - Siebel, T. M. (2019). Digital transformation: survive and thrive in an era of mass extinction. RosettaBooks. - Rogers, D. L. (2016). The digital transformation playbook: Rethink your business for the digital age. Columbia University Press. |
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| STUDY-UNIT TYPE | Lecture | ||||||||
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| LECTURER/S | Joseph Spiteri |
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The availability of optional units may be subject to timetabling constraints. Units not attracting a sufficient number of registrations may be withdrawn without notice. It should be noted that all the information in the description above applies to study-units available during the academic year 2025/6. It may be subject to change in subsequent years. |
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