Master of Science module "Digital Management: Hot Topics in Practice"

Note: This module will no longer be offered in the future!
Contents

Digital products, services, and processes are an integral part of the everyday lives of individuals and organizations. The impact of digitalization is tremendous, forcing organizations to react upon changing business rules and to leverage digital technologies and media.

The course covers the basic and future-oriented concepts of digitalization in industry, economy and society. The potentials and limits as well as the induced challenges of digital trends especially for companies and other organizations are discussed using scientific and practical analytical frameworks and methods. The goal is for students to learn these concepts, frameworks and methods and to practice their application to cases.

The course covers the following main topics:

  1. Smart Sustainability
  2. New Digital Work
  3. Digital Transformation
  4. Industry 4.0
  5. Artificial Intelligence
Learning Goals
  • Understand current corporate digitalization trends
  • Know the technological basics of digital systems
  • Analyze the potential and challenges of digital trends in different sectors of the economy
  • Understand the basic building blocks of organizations
  • Understand the ethical and societal dimensions behind increasing digitalization of our economy

Course organization

Basic concept

The course uses flipped classroom and blended learning concepts. As a student, you obtain various material for your time flexible, individual preparation. Afterwards, we support your learning process in a series of live sessions where you enter into discussion with the lecturers and your fellow students.

Individual preparation is essential

For the live sessions, you need to prepare the content beforehand. Without preparation, participation in a live session is meaningless. Preparation means that you read/watch/listen to the provided material. You should not only consume the material but actively process it: reflect on it, assess your agreement, dissenting opinion, and critique, take notes, form questions and build perspectives you want to remember and/or share in the live sessions. You will only be able to take advantage of the live sessions when you come prepared. The material for your individual preparation includes:

  • Reading material: Field reports, white papers, cases
  • Listening material: Selected podcasts
  • Educational videos
  • Slides used in the educational videos and the live sessions
Live sessions

Live sessions will be offered in presence at HS Ö1 weekly from Thursday, 06.04.2023 up to and including 06.07.2023 from 10:15am to 11:45am. On individual selected Mondays, further live sessions are held from 10:15am to 11:45am in HS1 (June 19th, July 10th).We kindly ask for your punctual appearance. In addition, the live session will be transmitted via zoom. Live sessions are not recorded. Login data are provided in Ilias.

Formal frame
  • The course is held in English.
  • It is an elective course
    • M.Sc. Management (Schwerpunktbereich Marketing & Management, Schwerpunktbereich
      Information Systems, Operations & Supply Chain Management, or "freier Wahlbereich")
    • M.Sc. Information Systems (Wirtschaftsinformatik)
    • M.Sc. Agribusiness (elective module, or "freier Wahlbereich")
    • Any other study programs (e.g., International Business and Economics): You should be able to take the course as a "free elective" course
  • Written 60-minute exam
  • Exam period: 17.07.2023 to 04.08.2023. Retry exam: 18.09.2023 to 06.10.2023 (expected according to central planning) in person on campus. If you do not pass the retry exam, the next opportunity to take the exam is in the summer of 2024 on the topics then covered in the summer semester of 2024.
  • 6 ECTS
  • Lecturer: Prof. Dr. Henner Gimpel, Dr. Valerie Graf-Drasch, Dr. Manfred Schoch

Exam Information

 In the following document

Exams at the Chair of Digital Management - Overview you will find all important

information for the exam, which is conducted as a “E-Klausur” at the Chair of

Digital Management.

 

To prepare for the exam, please also have a look at the tool demo:

 

  • Required video: Exams at the Chair of Digital Management - Practical Insights (26:34 minutes)

Slide deck

Session 1: Introduction (April 06, 2023)

  • We will discuss chapter 0 on the slide deck. You might want to download the document and (depending on your preferences and learning style) have a printout.
  • No further preparation is required.

Session 2: Smart Sustainability (April 13, 2023)

The session relates to chapter 1, Smart Sustainability.

Please prepare the following materials:

  • Required video: Why does sustainability matter? (2:35 minutes)
  • Required video: Smart starting points for sustainability (1:58 minutes)
  • Required video: General insight: Sustainability in organizational contexts (3:12 minutes)
  • Required video: Organizations’ sustainability management and goals (3:24 minutes)

  • Required video: Business model innovation (towards sustainability)  (6:22 minutes)

 

Session 3: Smart Sustainability (April 20, 2023)

The session relates to chapter 1, Smart Sustainability.

Please prepare the following materials:

  • Required video: Introduction to Circular Economy (8:39 minutes)
  • Required video: Evaluation of the Linear & Circular Economy (8:27 minutes)
  • Required video: Current examples and roadmap for a Circular Economy (6:16 minutes)
  • Required video: Circular Business Models (4:53 minutes)
  • Required video: Smart Cities & Districts (5:28 minutes)

Session 4: New Digital Work (April 27, 2023)

The session relates to chapter 2, New Digital Work.

Please prepare the following materials:

  • Required video: What is New Digital Work? (11:50 minutes)
  • Required video: Impact of Remote Work on Communication and Collaboration (13:44 minutes)
  • Required video: Drivers and Dimensions of New Digital Work (13:14 minutes)

Additional voluntary material: 

Session 5: New Digital Work (May 04, 2023)

The session relates to chapter 2, New Digital Work.

Please prepare the following materials: 

  • Required video: Implementation of a New Digital Work strategy in a company (10:00 minutes)
  • Required video: Performance measurement for New Digital Work (13:22 minutes)

                  Session 6: Guest Lecture (May 11, 2023)

                  • Guest lecture by Allianz
                  • No further preparation is required.

                  Session 7: Digital Transformation (May 25, 2023)

                  The session relates to chapter 3, Digital Transformation.

                  Please prepare the following materials:

                  Session 8: Digital Transformation (Monday, June 19, 2023)

                  The session relates to chapter 3, Digital Transformation.

                  Please prepare the following materials:

                  • Required video: A layered model of an organization (11:21 minutes)
                  • Required video: Fields of action for digital transformation (9:36 minutes)
                  • Required video: What is a digital ecosystem? (8:05 minutes)
                  • Required video: Digital control points (10:07 minutes)

                        Session 9: Industry 4.0 (June 22, 2023)

                        The session relates to chapter 4, Industry 4.0.

                        Please prepare the following materials:

                        • Required video: First glance on Industry 4.0 (4:29 minutes)
                        • Required reading: Industry 4.0 definitions (Slide deck)
                        • Required video: Competitiveness of the German industrial sector (9:58 minutes)
                        • Required video: Types of production (4:28 minutes)
                        • Required video: Effects of robotics on industrial labour (10:30 minutes)

                        Session 10: Artificial intelligence (June 29, 2023)

                        The session relates to chapter 5, Artificial Intelligence.

                        Please prepare the following materials:

                        Session 11: Artificial Intelligence (July 06, 2023)

                        The session relates to chapter 5, Artificial Intelligence.

                        Please prepare the following materials:

                        • Required video: Types of machine learning (13:20 minutes)
                        • Required video: Select challenges of artificial intelligence (4:11 minutes)
                          • Additionaly voluntary material: 
                          • Required video: An example of artifical neural networks (14:17 minutes)

                        Session 13: Q&A Session (Monday, July 10, 2023)

                        Please post your questions in advance in the ILIAS forum. Your questions will be answered during the Q&A session.

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