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Digital Transformation: Strategy, Execution, and Change

A practical guide to redesigning products, operations, and culture for the digital era

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Quick Course Facts
17
Self-paced, Online, Lessons
17
Videos and/or Narrated Presentations
5.4
Approximate Hours of Course Media
About the Digital Transformation: Strategy, Execution, and Change Course

Digital Transformation: Strategy, Execution, and Change is a practical course for leaders and professionals who want to turn ambitious ideas into real business outcomes. It shows how to connect Business Strategy with execution, helping you assess your current state, define a clear digital vision, and lead change with confidence.

Drive Digital Transformation With A Clear Business Strategy

  • Learn a practical guide to redesigning products, operations, and culture for the digital era
  • Build a Business Strategy that aligns technology, people, and processes around measurable goals
  • Assess pain points, customer journeys, and organizational capabilities to shape better decisions
  • Strengthen execution with governance, agile delivery, and change leadership practices

A practical guide to redesigning products, operations, and culture for the digital era.

This course explores Digital Transformation from end to end, starting with the forces that drive change and moving through the operating model, data, technology, and delivery methods needed to make transformation succeed. You will learn how to evaluate the current state of your organization, identify high-value opportunities, and create a transformation roadmap that is realistic, prioritized, and tied to business outcomes.

As you progress, you will study how to define target-state goals, build the business case, and choose the right mix of initiatives based on value and feasibility. The course also covers data governance, cloud and platform modernization, and the use of agile delivery to keep programs moving. These lessons help you connect strategy to execution so your transformation efforts are supported by strong decision-making and clear accountability.

You will also gain practical tools for managing vendors, steering large-scale change, communicating with stakeholders, and reducing resistance across the organization. With dedicated attention to reskilling, talent development, and value realization, the course shows how to sustain momentum after the first wave of change. By the end, you will be better prepared to lead Digital Transformation with a sharper Business Strategy, stronger execution discipline, and a lasting approach to continuous improvement.

Course Lessons

Full lesson breakdown

Lessons are organized by topic area and each includes descriptive copy for search visibility and student clarity.

Foundations and Business Context

1 lesson

Digital transformation is not the same as buying new software, moving to the cloud, or adding an app. It is the deliberate redesign of how an organization creates value using digital capabilities, dat…

Market Forces and Strategic Drivers

1 lesson

Lesson 2: Why Organizations Transform

18 min
Organizations transform when their current business model, operating model, or culture no longer matches the market around them. In this lesson, learners examine the main forces that push companies to…

Capabilities, Processes, and Pain Points

1 lesson

Lesson 3: Assessing the Current State

20 min
This lesson shows how to assess a digital transformation starting point before choosing solutions. You will learn how to map current capabilities, document core processes, and surface pain points acro…

Experience Design and Opportunity Discovery

1 lesson

Lesson 4: Mapping Customer and Employee Journeys

18 min
This lesson shows how to map customer and employee journeys to uncover friction, waste, and missed opportunities in a digital transformation effort. You will learn how to define a journey’s start and …

Target State and Transformation Goals

1 lesson

Lesson 5: Defining the Digital Vision

18 min
This lesson defines what the organization is trying to become before any tools, roadmaps, or implementation plans are chosen. Students learn how to describe a clear digital vision, translate it into a…

Structure, Roles, and Decision Rights

1 lesson

Lesson 6: Choosing the Right Operating Model

20 min
This lesson explains how to choose an operating model that fits a digital transformation effort: the way work is structured, who owns what, and how decisions move across teams. You will compare common…

Value, Feasibility, and Sequencing

1 lesson

Lesson 7: Prioritizing Transformation Initiatives

20 min
This lesson shows how to prioritize digital transformation initiatives when there are too many ideas and too few resources. Learners will use three decision lenses: value for the business and customer…

Investment Logic and Outcome Metrics

1 lesson

Lesson 8: Building the Business Case

18 min
This lesson shows how to turn a digital transformation idea into a credible investment case. You will define the problem, estimate value, compare options, and connect outcomes to metrics that executiv…

Quality, Access, Governance, and Use

1 lesson

Lesson 9: Data as a Transformation Asset

20 min
Data is not just an IT byproduct in digital transformation; it is an operational asset that shapes decisions, automates work, and improves customer experiences. In this lesson, learners examine what m…

Platforms, Cloud, and Integration

1 lesson

Lesson 10: Modernizing Technology Foundations

22 min
This lesson explains how to modernize the technology base that digital transformation depends on: platforms, cloud, and integration. You will learn how to assess legacy constraints, choose the right c…

Ways of Working and Execution Rhythm

1 lesson

Lesson 11: Using Agile Delivery in Transformation

18 min
Agile delivery gives digital transformation a practical rhythm: small batches of work, visible priorities, frequent feedback, and fast adjustment. In this lesson, learners see how agile methods help t…

Delivery Models and Accountability

1 lesson

Lesson 12: Managing Vendors and Internal Teams

18 min
This lesson explains how to assign work between vendors and internal teams without losing speed, control, or accountability. In digital transformation, the delivery model matters as much as the techno…

Steering, Controls, and Escalation Paths

1 lesson

Lesson 13: Governance for Large-Scale Change

20 min
This lesson explains how to govern a large-scale digital transformation without slowing it down. It focuses on who makes decisions , what gets reviewed , which controls matter , and how issues are esc…

Communication, Resistance, and Adoption

1 lesson

Lesson 14: Leading the People Side of Change

22 min
This lesson focuses on the people side of digital transformation: how leaders communicate change, anticipate resistance, and build adoption without creating fatigue or mistrust. Professor Chloe Vincen…

Training, Reskilling, and Talent Development

1 lesson

Lesson 15: Building Digital Skills and Capability

18 min
This lesson explains how to build the digital skills a transformation strategy actually needs. The focus is on identifying capability gaps, choosing the right mix of upskilling, reskilling, hiring, an…

KPIs, Dashboards, and Value Realization

1 lesson

Lesson 16: Measuring Progress and Proving Impact

20 min
This lesson shows how to measure digital transformation without relying on vanity metrics. You will learn how to define KPIs that connect to business outcomes, build dashboards that leaders actually u…

Continuous Improvement and Long-Term Culture

1 lesson

Lesson 17: Scaling and Sustaining Transformation

18 min
This lesson explains how to scale a digital transformation after the first wins are visible and how to sustain it so the organization does not drift back to old habits. The focus is on the operating m…
About Your Instructor
Professor Chloe Vincent

Professor Chloe Vincent

Professor Chloe Vincent guides this AI-built Virversity course with a clear, practical teaching style.