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M.Sc.|MBA|Micro-Degree INVN_digitalageleadership
Digital Age Leadership and Innovation Management

In today's fast-paced digital world, organizations must transform how they operate and create value. This course equips students with advanced leadership and change management skills needed to drive digital transformation successfully. Students will explore theoretical frameworks and practical methods, gaining the ability to lead innovation initiatives and manage organizational change in dynamic environments.

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Digital Age Leadership and Innovation Management

About This Course

The advancements of digital technologies put companies across industries under pressure to digitize their internal processes, focus on new ways of customer value creation and develop and implement new business models. This requires significant changes within organizations and requires managers and executives at different levels to have advanced specific skills.

The module focuses on advanced theoretical as well as practical frameworks and methods for leadership in the digital world as well as the required change management tools to achieve digital transformation within an organization.

Learning Objectives

  • Provide students with an understanding of advanced concepts of leadership and change management in the digital age.
  • have in-depth knowledge of the change management process
  • apply leadership theories and change management concepts in practice, e.g. in companies of various industries or public institutionshow to create and realize new business ideas outside and inside of existing organizations

Study Programs

This course is mandatory for the following study programs.

  • MBA Digital Transformation

This course is offered as an elective for the following study programs.

  • MBA Digital Technologies
  • M.Sc. Advanced Digital Reality
  • M.Sc. Applied AI
  • M.Sc. Cybersecurity
  • M.Sc. Digital Leadership

Micro Degree

  • This course is offered as a micro degree.
  • German UDS Micro Degrees are compatible with the European MOOC Consortiums Common Micro Credentials Framework.
  • Micro Degrees will be rewarded with an equivalent of 5 ECTS.
  • Micro Degrees are offered to non-regular students and require a fee of €900.

Requirements

None

General Information

  • Teaching Format: Experience
  • Total Workload Master: 125h (40h/85h) / 5 ECTS
  • Total Workload MBA: 100h (30h/70h) / 4 ECTS
  • Total Workload Micro Degree: 125h (40h/85h) / Equivalent to 5 ECTS
  • Module coordinator: Prof. Dr. Georg Loscher
  • Examinations: Quizzes, presentation(s), essay(s)/paper(s), project report(s), written exam (tbd) - Details will be announced with course start.
  • Offered: Odd quarters

Course Staff

Dr. Georg Loscher

Prof. Dr. Georg Loscher

Prof. Dr. Georg Loscher is a Senior Researcher at the German University of Digital Science, specializing in the digital transformation of management. He previously held a senior research position at the Universität der Bundeswehr München, where he completed his PhD and habilitation. Dr. Loscher has also conducted academic visits at the University of Oxford and Trinity College Dublin, focusing on how digital technologies reshape management and work.

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