Online Graduate Certificate in Digital Transformation

With a strong focus on governance frameworks and data-driven insights, this course will help you learn how to maximise your company's return on investment by redefining its people, processes, and technological capabilities.

Learning outcomes for this course include:

• Develop digital transformation strategies that incorporate emerging technology to identify new avenues of business value
• Evaluate organisational readiness for digital transformation and identify capability, culture or operational gaps and opportunities
• Formulate business initiatives using insights drawn from multiple internal and external sources
• Enable effective digital transformation through clear articulation of benefits, plans, requirements and metrics
• Foster organisational cultures and team cultures that embrace digital change.

Ideal for mid-senior managers and consultants with some exposure to digital transformations, our project-based assessments mean you’ll create projects for real-world business scenarios.

Being 100% online, you'll get 24/7 on-demand access to the course content, ensuring you don’t have to reduce your work or compromise your lifestyle. Plus, you’ll graduate with a globally recognised postgraduate qualification.

Dr Paul Cerotti - Program Manager, RMIT

Dr Paul Cerotti has had a long and distinguished career in teaching and learning. He is the Director of the Master of Commerce, a position that he has held for the past 10 years. Paul is passionate about globalisation and has devoted the last 18 years to developing award winning global programs for students to travel and study to varied locations.

This Graduate Certificate comprises three core subjects, and the choice of one Future Skills elective bundle.

Digital Transformation Strategy and Governance

This subject lays down the strategy and governance groundwork required for a digital transformation:

• Identify opportunities for digital transformation and develop innovative and compelling strategies
• Explore digital business and operating models including governance structures
• Uncover how emerging technologies will create business value
• Apply key frameworks around organisational strategy, transformation management, and organisational theory

Digital Transformation Enablers

This subject interrogates the fundamental enablers required to successfully undertake digital transformation:

• Develop the mindset, organisational culture and team to embrace and drive change
• Make data-driven decisions from generated insights and identify valuable data sources
• Explore how technology can facilitate personalised experience, processes, and products
• Understand frameworks around change theory, organisational culture, business analytics, technology strategy, and data visualisation.

Digital Transformation Execution

This subject addresses how to execute a transformation on an initiative level:

• Understand how capability, communication and operational challenges often leads to transformation failure
• Explore how to mitigate transformation challenges and sell your vision by developing key artefacts such as business cases, budgets, and initiative roadmaps
• Comprehend the key theories and frameworks around effective communication, project evaluation, cost and benefit analysis, and project management.

Future Skills bundle

For this subject, you'll choose from one of the following Future Skills bundles:

• Digital Leadership + Digital Delivery with Agile
• Digital Leadership + Customer Experience Strategy and Design
• Cyber Security Risk and Strategy + Developing Blockchain Strategy
• Cyber Security Risk and Strategy + Developing AI Strategy.

International students are required to provide current evidence of English language proficiency for admission to RMIT University. You can provide your results from one of these three options:

1. An accepted English language proficiency test, or
2. An accepted English language provider, or
3. A recognised Australian or international qualification.

2021 tuition fees are AUD$3,840 per course, totalling AUD$15,360 for four courses.

Fees apply to 2021 only.

Fees are adjusted on an annual basis and these fees should only be used as a guide.

See our fees page for more information.

In addition to tuition fees, you will be charged an annual student services and amenities fee (SSAF) based on your enrolment load, which is used to maintain and enhance services and amenities that improve your experience as an RMIT student. Eligible local students can apply for an SA-HELP loan to defer payment of their SSAF.

For more information about calculating your actual SSAF see Paying SSAF.