Overview

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!

Learning Objectives

By the end of this Digital Leadership Programme, the participants will:

• 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?

• 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 Content

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