Postgraduate Course: Digital Transformation and Digital Business (CMSE11514)
Course Outline
| School | Business School |
College | College of Arts, Humanities and Social Sciences |
| Credit level (Normal year taken) | SCQF Level 11 (Postgraduate) |
Availability | Not available to visiting students |
| SCQF Credits | 15 |
ECTS Credits | 7.5 |
| Summary | Discovering, developing and launching new value offerings, attracting new customers, managing key resources and activities, and organizing supply networks happen increasingly through deploying digital technologies. The objective of this course is to provide students with foundational knowledge of the key concepts, frameworks, tools and techniques of digital business and the required skills and understandings of their practical application to enable organizations to manage and organize their activities through information technology. The course explores the approach to organize and manage a range of business activities, starting from developing a new enterprise, to competing in digital platforms, through the use of digital technologies. |
| Course description |
Digital technologies are at the core of businesses. Traditional industries deploy digital technologies to support their activities while new business models emerge from the ability of obtaining access to different resources and new markets. The course will provide students with foundational knowledge of key concepts and frameworks to understand the impact of digital technologies in business.
The complete syllabus will be provided during the first week.
Student Learning Experience
The course aims to maximise interactivity and learning before assessments. Learning makes sense in the context of your previous experience and ideas, through puzzling about how the content might be relevant to particular issues you are interested in, by cross-referencing with other courses/ reading/ thinking and through actively listening to the ideas of your peers. As such, the course will combine direct teaching in a lecture format with in class case study discussions to encourage interaction and debate.
Tutorial/seminar hours represent the minimum total live hours - online or in-person - a student can expect to receive on this course. These hours may be delivered in tutorial/seminar, lecture, workshop or other interactive whole class or small group format. These live hours may be supplemented by pre-recorded lecture material for students to engage with asynchronously.
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Entry Requirements (not applicable to Visiting Students)
| Pre-requisites |
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Co-requisites | |
| Prohibited Combinations | |
Other requirements | None |
Course Delivery Information
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| Academic year 2021/22, Not available to visiting students (SS1)
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Quota: 77 |
| Course Start |
Semester 2 |
Timetable |
Timetable |
| Learning and Teaching activities (Further Info) |
Total Hours:
150
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Seminar/Tutorial Hours 15,
Programme Level Learning and Teaching Hours 3,
Directed Learning and Independent Learning Hours
132 )
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| Additional Information (Learning and Teaching) |
Seminar/Tutorial hrs are the min total live hrs, online or in-person, students can expect to receive
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| Assessment (Further Info) |
Written Exam
0 %,
Coursework
100 %,
Practical Exam
0 %
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| Additional Information (Assessment) |
50% coursework (group) - assesses all course Learning Outcomes
50% coursework (individual) - assesses course Learning Outcomes 1, 2
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| Feedback |
Formative feedback:
Most feedback occurs in informal settings, but also critically supplemented by the interaction during the course sessions. It is expected that students will gain feedback on their understanding of the material during the discussions in class, but the usefulness of this feedback is directly proportional with the amount of work students put in reading and preparing the essential readings prior to coming to the sessions. |
| No Exam Information |
Learning Outcomes
On completion of this course, the student will be able to:
- Describe and discuss critically the toolbox of theories, framework and methods to examine the use of digital technologies in business activities.
- Apply these theories, frameworks and methods to manage the digital technologies in any organizational context.
- Debate about relevant theories and cases in groups, reach consensus, and produce a meaningful analysis as a result.
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Reading List
| Each session will be supported with a short list of core readings which can be found in the Reading List, available on Learn. |
Additional Information
| Graduate Attributes and Skills |
Knowledge and understanding
Critical understanding of the concepts, frameworks and principles involved in exploring the use of digital technologies in business
Understanding of how digital technologies use, creates and delivers value to organisations
Practice: applied knowledge, skills and understanding
Knowledge, skills and understanding of how to apply these frameworks and tools to support the use of digital technologies in any kind of organisations
Demonstrate flexibility in the application of these tools and techniques depending on the context
Demonstrate originality and creativity in how to introduce digital technologies in organisation to support new processes and activities
Generic cognitive skills
Ability for critical analysis, evaluation and synthesis of new and complex information
Ability to develop solutions in the absence of complete information
Develop original and creative responses to problems
Communication, CIT and numeracy skills
Communicate in a variety of formats (in groups, discussion forums, in reports) demonstrating ability to adapt communication to appropriate format and purpose
Autonomy, accountability and working with others
Take full responsibility for own work
Demonstrate originality in tackling and resolving problems and finding solutions
Understand and reflect on the ethical implications involved in information use |
| Keywords | Not entered |
Contacts
| Course organiser | Dr Jordana Viotto Da Cruz
Tel:
Email: Jordana.Viotto@ed.ac.uk |
Course secretary | Miss Lauren Millson
Tel: (0131 6)51 3013
Email: Lauren.Millson@ed.ac.uk |
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