Improving Business Leadership Through Technology

• Critically evaluate the meaning and role of Sustainable Business Strategy
• Demonstrate innovative thinking for overcoming sustainability challenges from a management and organisational perspective
• Examine the links between sustainability and corporate activity
• Identify creative solutions to embed sustainability in different organisations
• Analyse the role of sustainability in corporate strategy, organisational culture and operations

CONTENTS

Business Leadership in the Digital Era

• Technology Leadership
• Digital Leadership Challenges and Experience
• Three Dimensions of Digital Leadership
• Customer Needs in the Digital Era
• Industry and Occupational Differences in Digital Skills

Technology-Enabled Disruptions

• Leading Technological Forces Disrupting Today’s Business Environment
• Mobile and Cloud Computing
• Big Data and Business Analytics
• Why industry players failed to respond to potentially disruptive changes?
• Identify Technology-led Disruptions in Your Own Industry
• Identify Shifts Required to Respond to Disruptive Changes

Online Business Models

• What are internet business models?
• Five Primary Types of e-Commerce Models
• Business Models Characterizing a Variety of Digital Goods Companies
• Building an Efficient Strategic Alignment Model
• Factors that Constrain an Enterprise from Using Information and Communication Technology

Designing Information Capabilities for Competitive Advantage

• Conventional vs. Digital Competitive Advantages
• Roles of Information Technology (IT) in Designing Information Capabilities that Provide End-to-End Value Chain Visibility
• Capabilities Driving the Competitive Advantage of Companies like Walmart and Amazon
• Outline the Ingredients of Information Technology (IT) - enabled competitive advantages 
• Design Supply Chains that Transform Your Cost of Operations

Social Networks and Enterprise

• Practical Use of Social Media
• Internet of Things and Internet Plus
• Network Information Technology (IT) that Facilitates Unstructured Interactions in Organizations
• Leveraging Network Information Technology (IT) to Radically Improve Information Flows and Decision-making
• Debates and Group Collaboration to Use Technologies

TRAINING METHODOLOGY

The training methodology combines lectures, discussions, group exercises and illustrations. Participants will gain both theoretical and practical knowledge of the topics. The emphasis is on the practical application of the topics and as a result participant will go back to the workplace with both the ability and the confidence to apply the techniques learned to their duties.