Foundations for Digital Transformation

XDGT100

Stanford School of Engineering

For your organization to grow and evolve in today’s tech-centered landscape, you must develop a company culture that promotes risk-taking, collaboration, and speed. In this foundational digital transformation course, you’ll learn how to implement processes and digital transformation strategies to build and reinforce these values.

If you’re looking to lead digital transformation in your company or department, this course is the perfect place to start. You’ll examine the key factors that enable an organization to take advantage of the opportunities that emerging technologies provide and to stay competitive as these technologies evolve. You’ll hear first-hand how digital transformation leaders Dr. Won-Pyo Hong (CEO of Samsung SDS) and Dan Leibfried (Director of Advanced Technologies at John Deere) are taking steps to ensure that their companies are at the forefront of digital transformation.

  • Promote innovation in your company or team
  • Foster agility in a mature organization
  • Achieve successful collaboration across physical and cultural boundaries
  • Build a digital culture that sets the stage for transformation within your company

Course Outline

Foundations for Digital Transformation
Discover what it means to digitally transform. Hear stories from industry leaders who have led digital transformations in their companies and explore the key characteristics of digital culture.
Nimble and Fast
Learn what it means to be nimble and explore key principles for designing nimble organizations.
Voracious Learning
Discover why a voracious learning climate is essential for digital transformation and learn strategies for promoting a culture of learning in your organization.
Unbounded Collaboration
Learn how to move an organization in a new direction by uniting teams across boundaries. Explore ways to drive organizational learning and innovation by broadening perspectives.
Appetite for Risk
Learn why risk-taking is so important and explore some key practices and leadership behaviors that can encourage risk-taking in your team or organization.
Leading Digital Transformation
Examine key leadership behaviors that can help you establish and maintain a digital culture in your organization.

Core Competencies

  • Digital Transformation
  • Innovation
  • Organizational Behavior
  • Organizational Culture
  • Collaboration