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Digital Transformation Sprint - September 2023

CHF 850.00 Regular price CHF 950.00

Dates: 11 - 25 September
Time commitment: 1-2 hours per day

Get the knowledge and skills to thrive in the digital age. Join 100+ participants and uncover strategies to extract new value from digitization and accelerate your business transformation.

DIGITAL TRANSFORMATION SPRINT

Are you feeling the impact of digital disruption? Are you struggling to create business value from digital tools and technologies?

Learn from digital pioneers through examples and case studies how to enhance performance in volatile, uncertain environments. Master the challenge of creating and sustaining organizational agility. Learn how digital disruptors disrupt and how to beat them at their own game. You will complete this Sprint with a roadmap for successful digital transformation.

How a Sprint works?

The fast-paced format condenses your learning time to 1-2 hours per day. Enjoy active participation in the liVe sessions, interacting with your community, and/or building your project.

Each Sprint gives you access to a range of tools and learning platforms designed so you can achieve real impact, fast.
• Online modules: self-paced learning format
• Livestream sessions: interact live with faculty and guest speakers
• Case studies: Learn from the winners (and losers)
• Peer learning: Gain insights from your cohort
• Project: Turn learning into your own action plan

Take a sneak peek into module 1 of the program:

WHAT YOU'LL LEARN

1. Digital value drivers and response strategies

• Discover why digital transformation is so hard and how to gain competitive advantage
• Where to play? Your best strategic choices
• Individual assignment – your digital strategy

 

2. Digital transformation execution

• Discover why the failure rate of digital transformation is so high
• How to drive transformation through your organization
• An effective 10-step framework: The Digital Transformation Orchestra
• Individual assignment - apply the framework to your business objectives

 

3. Digital and organizational agility

• Discover the “how” of digital transformation and why agility is your key to sustainable advantage
• Explore the roots of organizational agility
• Fast execution
• Individual assignment – your digital business agility

 

4. The future of digital transformation and digital ethics

Discover how digital resilience helps you bounce back from major shocks like the pandemic
Ethical considerations related to your digital business
Corporate Digital Responsibility

Including illustrations from: Amazon, Nestlé, Tesla, IQOS, Mastercard, Disney, Axel Springer, Richemont, Airbnb, We Work and the latest research from the “Global Center for Digital Business Transformation.”

Who will benefit?

Traditional Business Leader / Manager

You are looking to extract the most value from digital technologies and business models to map out your own successful transformation

Founder / Entrepreneur

You are a small to medium-sized business owner, looking to create new forms of value for customers and wider stakeholders

Innovator

You are looking to gain inspiration from the digital disruptors to boost your own creativity and innovation skills

MICHAEL WADE

Michael Wade is Professor of Innovation and Strategy at IMD and holds the Cisco Chair in Digital Business Transformation. He is the Director of IMD’s Global Center for Digital Business Transformation. His areas of expertise relate to strategy, innovation, and digital transformation.

At IMD, Professor Wade directs a number of executive programs related to digital transformation, including Digital Execution, Digital Transformation for Boards, and Digital Disruption.

Michael has been named one of the top ten digital thought leaders in Switzerland several times by a jury of business media, most recently in 2020. He has published ten books and more than a hundred case studies and articles on a variety of topics, including digital business transformation, innovation, strategy, and digital leadership.

“I’ve distilled the most important things you need to know about digital transformation and packed it all into 15 days. Everything you need to respond effectively to digital disruption, because it’s not getting any easier.”

Professor Michael Wade

Get your Digital Transformation checklist

Wondering how to assess the performance of your digital initiatives? Simply enter your email to get your free Digital Transformation KPIs checklist.

what participants say about sprint

an inspirational booster

“Sprint is an inspirational booster. It’s a top-class, hands-on experience with engaging workshops, useful case discussions and a set of "ready-to-use" digital transformation tools.”

J. Aleksandrowicz | Principal Consultant/Head of Business Consulting | GFT Group | Poland

simple and powerful

“Sprint is so simple and so powerful!!! It gets you engaged and excited to practice the learnings! It’s an exciting journey and far above my expectations!”

F. Giuntini | Vice President Marketing | Americana Foods | Dubai, UAE

Exceeded my expectations

“The online learning experience is outstanding. The mix between live sessions, online learning, and assessments are well balanced. It exceeded my expectations by far.”

A. Hunn | Chief Executive Officer Zeramex/Dentalpoint | Switzerland

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Partner with the best for your business education. IMD is ranked Top 3 worldwide for executive education 10 years in a row - 2012-2022 (FT Executive Education Rankings).

Schedule overview (11 - 25 September 2023)

All liVe sessions are recorded and will be available for replay on the learning platform. All times are CET.

Session

LIVE VIRTUAL SESSION 109:00-10:00 CEST

module 1: understanding DIGITAL - how to drive value

  • Discover why digital transformation is so hard and how to gain competitive advantage
  • Where to play? Your best strategic choices
  • Individual assignment – your digital strategy
Session

LIVE VIRTUAL SESSION 209:00-10:30 CEST

module 2: DIGITAL AND ORGANIZATIONAL AGILITY

  • How to drive transformation through your organization
  • An effective 10-step framework: The Digital Transformation Orchestra
  • Individual assignment - apply the framework to your business objectives
Session

LIVE VIRTUAL SESSION 309:00-10:00 CEST

module 3: DIGITAL EXECUTION

  • Discover the “how” of digital transformation
  • Explore the roots of organizational agility
  • Individual assignment – your digital business agility

Module 4: DIGITAL ethics and resilience

  • Discover how digital resilience helps you bounce back from major shocks
  • Ethical considerations related to your digital business
  • Corporate Digital Responsibility
Session

LIVE VIRTUAL SESSION 409:00-10:30 CEST

Session

LIVE VIRTUAL SESSION 5: coaching09:00-10:30 CEST

submit your assignment

submit peer review

receive your digital transformation certificate

  • Complete all course content and submit your assignment for peer review to receive your certificate of completion

Enroll Today

Join other ambitious leaders and shapers from around the world.

Next Sprint starts 11 September 2023

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Digital Transformation Sprint

• Explore how digital tools and capabilities can boost your innovation and creativity

• Learn how to create new forms of value for customers, employees, and other stakeholders

• Leverage the power of digital to accelerate your business transformation

• Become an agile, competent manager with the digital skills and knowledge to drive positive change

Digital Transformation Sprint - September 2023

Limited Seats

Uncover strategies to extract new value from digitization and digital transformation of your business

  • Price: 850CHF (early bird)
  • Program starts: 11 September 2023
  • Time commitment: 1-2 hours per day

  • Duration: 2 weeks
    11 - 25 September 2023

    CHF 850 CHF 950