Course Title: Digital Transformation Execution

Part A: Course Overview

Course Title: Digital Transformation Execution

Credit Points: 12.00

Flexible Terms

Course Code	Campus	Career	School	Learning Mode	Teaching Period(s)
BUSM2523	City Campus	Postgraduate	620H Business IT and Logistics	Internet	JanJun2021 (All)
BUSM2523	City Campus	Postgraduate	620H Business IT and Logistics	Internet	JulDec2021 (All)
BUSM2523	City Campus	Postgraduate	665H Accounting, Information Systems and Supply Chain	Internet	JanJun2022 (All)
BUSM2523	City Campus	Postgraduate	665H Accounting, Information Systems and Supply Chain	Internet	JanJun2023 (All)
BUSM2523	City Campus	Postgraduate	665H Accounting, Information Systems and Supply Chain	Internet	JulDec2023 (All)
BUSM2523	City Campus	Postgraduate	665H Accounting, Information Systems and Supply Chain	Internet	JanJun2024 (All)

Course Coordinator: Dr Akanksha Saini

Course Coordinator Phone: +61 3 9925 6496

Course Coordinator Email: akanksha.saini@rmit.edu.au

Course Coordinator Location: Building80

Course Coordinator Availability: By Appointment via email

Pre-requisite Courses and Assumed Knowledge and Capabilities

None.

Course Description

In this course, you will address one of the most difficult challenges of any transformation effort – the execution, particularly at an initiative level. You will dissect why execution often fails due to capability, communication and operational shortcomings and strategies to mitigate these challenges. You will learn how to sell and communicate your vision and develop key artefacts including business cases, budgets and initiative road maps. Key theories and frameworks covered include effective communication, project evaluation, cost and benefit analysis, project management.

Objectives/Learning Outcomes/Capability Development

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CLO1: Critically compare the outcomes of various initiatives within an organisational context and develop prioritised recommendations

CLO2: Justify and clearly communicate the rationale and measurable benefits of transformation initiatives

CLO3: Design and develop plans to execute transformation initiatives that reflect an understanding of an organisation’s strengths and limitations

Overview of Learning Activities

This course uses highly structured learning activities to guide your learning process and prepare you for your assessments. The activities are a combination of individual, peer-supported and facilitator-guided activities, and where possible project-led, with opportunities for feedback throughout.

Authentic and industry-relevant learning is critical to this course and you will be encouraged to critically compare and contrast what is happening in your context and in industry, and to use your insights.

Social learning is another important component and you are expected to participate in class and group activities, share drafts of work and resources and give and receive peer feedback. You will be expected to work efficiently and effectively with others to achieve outcomes greater than those that you might have achieved alone. 

The learning activities enable you to understand course learning resources and apply that learning to improve your own practice, for example by producing real-world artefacts and engaging in scenarios and case studies.

Overview of Learning Resources

 

Each learning activity contains the core resources, such as videos, podcasts, readings, templates, articles, industry tools and/or communities that you need to complete that activity, or links to those resources. 

Additional learning resources designed into the course will be clearly marked as supplemental. If your course teaching team finds additional resources during course delivery which they think can support or be of interest to the class cohort, these will be made available as required during the teaching period. 

In your class environment, besides your learning activities you will also find: 

• All assessment briefs 
• A course information page with a study schedule 
• Various communication tools to facilitate collaboration with your peers and facilitators, and to share information 

 

Learning Resources are also available online through RMIT Library databases and other facilities. Study Support Hubs are open to students for drop-in support and online help is available through self-paced tutorials or the online chat service, Ask the Library. Find more information on Library resources and services at: http://www.rmit.edu.au/library.

Overview of Assessment

This course has three assessments. A total mark of 50% is required for a pass in this course.

 

Assessment Task	Weighting (%)	Linked CLOs
Assessment Task 1	30%	1, 2
Assessment Task 2	30%	2, 3
Assessment Task 3	40%	1, 2, 3