inf661 - Digital Transformation (Complete module description)

No participant requirements

After successful completion of the lecture, the students should be able to define enabler and actors of a digi-tal transformation within the context of a model company. Furthermore, key competences such as Cloud Computing or IoT are used to make potential exploitation by new digital business models visible. The results will be evaluated. The lecture explains basic properties of a digital transformation for companies and shows specific develop-ment potential. By forming and building a model company, students are able to create a realistic and practical scenario. A final documentation reveals the degree of fulfilment and the students point ov view on the scenario.
Professional competence
The students:

• recognize basic properties and facts of a digital transformation for companies
• devide different terms of digital transformation
• expose actual introduction projects
• compile practical knowledge by dividing goals of enabler and acteurs of a digital transformation
• obtain basic knowledge of key competences such as IT-Security, Data Analytics, Big Data, Cloud Computing
• identify digital business models within the specific development potential

Methodological competence
The students:

• etermine and analyse required information
• prepare the given information for specific target groups
• destablish an analytical understanding of digital enterprise structures within key competences and applications

Social competence
The students:

• work in groups, identify work packages and take on responsibility for the jobs assigned to them
• discuss and introduce the results on a functional level

Self-competence
The students:

• reflect their actions on the basis of self defined objectives
• analyse their own state of knowledge

Within the lecture the upcoming topics are discussed: 

• definition and introduction of digital transformation
• success factors, market changes and introductory projects
• enabler of a digtial transformation (competences, applications and structures)
• digital business models and networks - acteurs of a digital transformation
• industry 4.0 in the context of a digital transformation

• Kollmann, T., Schmidt, H. (2016): Deutschland 4.0: Wie die Digitale Transformation gelingt. Springer Gabler, Wiesbaden.
• Cole, T. (2017): Digitale Transformation: Warum die deutsche Wirtschaft gerade die digitale Zukunft verschläft und was jetzt getan werden muss! 2. erweiterte Auflage. Verlag Franz Vahlen, München.
• Schallmo, D. (2016): Jetzt digital transformieren: So gelingt die erfolgreiche Digitale Transformation Ihres Geschäftsmodells. Springer Gabler, Wiesbaden.
• Schallmo, D., Rusnjak, A., Anzengruber, J., Werani, T., Jünger, M. (2017): Digitale Transformation von Geschäftsmodellen: Grundlagen, Instrumente und Best Practices. Springer Gabler, Wiesbaden.

 usually within two weeks after the end of the lecture period

Formal presentation, Project oder Written examination

specific type of examination will be announced in the first lecture