Digitization brings many challenges with it: Rapidly changing technologies accelerate market changes and intensify competition. In order to be able to keep pace here, a solid technical understanding on the one hand and business skills, on the other hand, is required. Digitization leads to completely new questions in the areas of technology, strategy, people, and organization. Traditional knowledge is often no longer sufficient to assert oneself.

This is exactly where the advanced master’s course “Digital Business Innovation and Transformation” at the University of Duisburg-Essen comes in. It is geared towards the qualification needs of specialists and executives who deal with the topics of digitization. It enables students to take on a leading role in individual digitization initiatives or the digital transformation of companies.

The skills imparted include:

• The planning, organization, and control of digitization projects with their technical and professional content
• The conception and evaluation of new digital products, services, and business models - taking into account technical, strategic, and organizational perspectives
• The planning, organization, and control of the digital transformation of organizations, including aspects such as cultural changes or necessary corporate cooperation
• The management of employees and the management of change, the digital transformation brings with it