• Management Sciences

MasterClass #1 – The Digital Leader: Navigating the Digital Age

Course Synopsis

As industries, processes, and business models are reinvented by disruptive technologies, the most valuable leaders of tomorrow are those that can shape the impact of those changes, rather than react to them. They’re leaders who can seek out new opportunities, deliver those new opportunities, and help redefine their businesses for the future.

To ensure that their organisations are equipped to navigate the digital future, leaders need to be well-versed in the trends and technologies shaping that future and explore new ways to drive competitiveness and growth.

The Digital Leader is part of the Leadership MasterClasses for the Fourth Industrial Revolution, a transformational set of learning experiences designed to equip leaders with a new set of leadership skills to keep up with the rapid pace of change and embrace new, integrated ways of working. Specific Outcomes

On completion of this MasterClass experience, leaders will have a broader understanding of the impact of new technologies and be equipped with the skills and capabilities required to become an effective leader in the digital age.

Specific Outcomes

  • Develop a strategy for the department/division
  • Develop action plans for the department/division
  • Implement action plans
  • Review action plans.

Content Outline

  • Becoming a Digital Citizen
    Understanding and embracing tomorrow’s technologies:
    Artificial Intelligence and Machine Learning
    Virtual and Augmented Reality
    Automation and Robotics
    The Internet of Things
    Gaining a broad perspective of the significant shifts happening as a result of technology
    Understanding the opportunities and risks that come with digital disruption and transformation
  • Becoming an Effective Leader for the Digital Age
    Understanding what it means to lead in the digital age and how the model of leadership has changed.
    Understanding the skills that characterize the effective digital leader
    Recognising your strengths and development areas
    Learning from the real-life experiences of digital leaders
    Developing a personal digital leadership plan to drive positive, meaningful change in the workplace

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