Master programmes
Language
English
Course overview
Over the past decades, a number of innovative companies have made headlines because of their ability to leverage digital technologies to change what business they do and how they do that business. While companies such as Amazon, Airbnb, or Alphabet each are well-known poster children of the digital innovation movement, more and more industries are on the verge of digital disruption.
With innovation often recognized as an enduring driver of organizations’ ability to generate value sustainably, future managers, entrepreneurs, and policy-makers need to be aware of the impact that digitalization has on innovation of both products and processes. Against this backdrop, the lecture Digital Innovation provides you with an opportunity to understand and explore the impact of digitalization on innovation and build a fundamental set of key competencies to generate and manage digital innovations in increasingly digitalized business, markets, and societies.
Once you have successfully completed this course you have the knowledge and skills to:
explain how digitalization impacts products and processes
identify different objects of digital innovation
innovate in a digital context and manage digital innovation projects
evaluate the ethical implications of digitalization
apply relevant conceptual knowledge to real-life cases
Course Code
07-M303-2-08-01
Semester
Spring
ECTS
6
Language
English
Course overview
Modern organizations are highly affected by the implementation and change of technologies. Especially in the context of the ongoing and ever-intensifying macro trend of digitalization, organizations and the individuals working in them are confronted with technology-related changes on a near-constant basis. These projects are often troubled by a lack of acceptance of new technologies among designated users (both internal and external to the organization) and, as a result, fail to achieve the benefits that their sponsors initially promised.
The objective of Managing Technological Change (MTC) is to provide you with an opportunity to examine the interaction between technology, organizations, and human actors. This will help you develop well-argued design and intervention proposals for technology implementation and use as well as the accompanying organizational change measures.
Completing this course will support you in developing the following skills:
explain the interaction of organizations and technologies in organizational change
analyze how a particular technology can align or misalign with organizations
understand new, technology-enabled modes of organizing and evaluate potential effects on strategies and work design
manage technology diffusion, adoption, acceptance, and resistance by applying relevant theoretical models
anticipate how people react to new technology and how their individual behavior shapes organizational success and benefits of technological change
Course Code
07-M303-1-07-01
Semester
Fall
ECTS
6
Language
English
Course overview
ManTIS discusses specificities of research topics that contain digital aspects and reflects on implications for methods and theories. While selecting an exciting topic is a fundamental anchor for your research’s relevance, your ability to provide rigorous results depends on a sound command of theories and methods.
The seminar introduces some of the most common methods used in business research by looking at examples from the information systems discipline. This includes how to carry out a literature review as well as qualitative (e.g., case study research) and quantitative (e.g., survey-based research) methods of empirical research.
Completing this course advances your ability to:
understand the basics of implementing empirical research designs and executing them
apply to methods and techniques of collecting and analyzing quantitative and qualitative empirical data
evaluate the strengths, weaknesses, and differences between quantitative and qualitative research methods and assess their suitability for particular empirical research projects
understand methods for developing prescriptive theory
interpret empirical studies from the field of management information systems and evaluate their methodological quality
Course Code
07-M303-2-03-01
Semester
Fall 2023
ECTS
6