Course content
Digitalization is disrupting whole industries, changing the nature of our work and the way we live our lives. At the heart of this is digitality, or the characteristics of digital technology, which profoundly change our capacity for innovation. The ambition of this course is to help us understand why this is the case, the changing role of traditional innovation theory in the context of digitality, and the importance of new digitally-focused theory in explaining innovation. The course broadly divides into three areas, which consider 1) digital innovation at the level of an industry; 2) the formulation of digital innovation strategy at the level of the company; 3) the implementation of digital innovation strategy at the level of the company. The course aims to help students advance their careers by enabling them understand, critique, and positively influence organisational digital innovation strategy.
The course will consist of ten sessions employing a blended approach to learning. Some aspects will be online, and other aspects will be carried out physically in class. Learning will consist of lectures, exercises, and workshops. The first 8 sessions will be split into two equal parts. The first part consists of a two-hour pre-recorded online lecture. The second part consists of an in person three hour workshop for teams of 5 students to work on group exercises, when all parties will be physically present. The final 2 sessions will be used for teams to present, in person, a synthesis of their group exercise work.
In the 10 lectures, a combination of pre-recorded online lecture-mode instruction and case exercises will be used to enable students to identify and describe characteristics, concepts, theoretical frameworks, and principles of digital innovation and innovation strategy.
In the 8 in-person workshops, students will work in teams of 5, engaging in exercises concerning digital innovation in case studies of Danish and international organisations. The group exercises enable students to develop knowledge and skills in describing opportunities, challenges, and consequences for digital innovation in organisations.
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