Purpose and Impact

Leaders in a rapidly evolving technological landscape know adaptation is critical for organizational success. However, digital transformation initiatives can easily drift off-track. Especially for established companies in mature industries, aligning strategy and technology is exceptionally difficult — risking missed opportunities and competitive disadvantage.

Innovating for Digital Transformation is designed to help executives and managers overcome these challenges and successfully navigate change. Bringing an innovation lens to digital transformation, you'll learn to encourage a culture of creative experimentation and rally your team around a shared vision for the future. Working with top Ivey faculty and peers from across industries, you will develop a deep understanding of the trends, strategies, and best practices needed to successfully drive digital change, boost growth, and future-proof your organization for any new technology.

Understand the implications of digital change on your business model. Gain insights into the potentials and challenges of digital disruption. Build an action plan to tackle a real-world opportunity. Become a digitally-savvy leader and learn your way into the future with confidence.

Participant Profile

Innovating for Digital Transformation is designed for managers, directors, VPs, and C-suite executives in any industry who will play a role in driving digital change. The program is ideal for established leaders responsible for designing products and services, people leaders who manage change in technology and processes, and high-potential emerging leaders who will innovate new ways of doing business.

Learning Outcomes

Advancing your tech knowledge

• Elevate your understanding of the latest trends in technology and how they are transforming organizations.
• Identify how digitalization transforms organizational functions, industries, business models, and the work landscape to forecast impacts on your organization.
• Explore the link between digital transformation and innovation strategies.

Creating the conditions for change

• Build effective habits to interrogate and rethink business processes with an innovation and technology lens.
• Assess your organizational readiness for change — and plan strategies to prepare for success.
• Define and measure key success factors in innovation. Map out–and predict–how successful products and services diffuse into the market.
• Encourage a culture of innovation and experimentation within your team or organization.

Navigating pitfalls and resistors

• Connect investments in technology to business strategy and clearly explain why innovation matters.
• Recognize prime opportunities for digital innovation and anticipate challenges in implementation. Unlearn common management reflexes that impede sustainable change.
• Balance long-term innovation with immediate operational priorities and business constraints.
• Plan a strategy to solve innovation adoption problems in your organization.

Leading digital transformation with an innovation lens

• Apply key concepts with an Action Learning Project specific to your role and organization.
• Explore real-world examples of organizations that successfully (and unsuccessfully) integrated technology solutions into their products, services, and processes.
• Simulate the digital transformation process and apply design thinking principles to challenges.
• Manage the change process and build consensus among interest groups.

Ivey Digital Leader Certificate

Innovating for Digital Transformation is eligible for your Digital Leader Certificate pathway. Click here to learn more and view additional program options.

Return on Investment

Fees

$4,990 CAD

The program fee includes program materials, breakfast, and lunch; participants are responsible for accommodations and meals outside of program hours. Program fees are tax-exempt.

Applications must be submitted no later than 14 days before the start of the program.

FAQs

What funding resources are available?

Organizations and participants in Canada may benefit from the Canada Job Grant or the Canada Training Credit to offset a portion of program fees. Visit our Funding Resources page to learn more.

Will the sessions be lecture-based?

At Ivey, we embrace learning as an interactive experience. Rather than lecturing, your faculty facilitators will guide the group through hands-on activities, discussions, cases, simulations, and more. To get the most value from your learning experience, you should expect to be present and engaged in class sessions. To learn more, click here to visit our Learning Experience page.

How should I prepare before attending the program?

Our Program Managers will contact all registered participants before the program start date with instructions to join our online Learning Management System. Once logged in, you can create a class profile, view other participants’ profiles, and access a list of assigned pre-readings, cases, and activities. Plan to review and complete preparation work in advance of each class session.