Digital Business Transformation

The digital revolution of the 21st century is permeating various aspects of businesses, industries and society as a whole. The smart cities development is the result of the digital technologies, fast paced innovations and the need to achieve the sustainable development goals. The digital transformation in smart cities is enabling dramatic shifts in business models, business services and the way we live. This course provides the essential knowledge and skills that prepares students to understand and critically analyse the digital transformation strategies in the fast and dynamically changing environment that we currently live in. The knowledge and skills that the students will learn in this module is relevant to students of all disciplines as almost all organizations are impacted by the digital transformations.

Course leader

Meha Shukla

Target group

This is a level one module (equivalent to first year undergraduate). No prior subject knowledge is required to study this module but students are expected to have a keen interest in the subject area.

Course aim

This course will enable the students to articulate the fundamentals of business transformation framework and
the processes involved. The students will learn how these principles were applied using innovative solutions in
the successful digital transformation of organizations across multiple sectors. The students will also be able to
analyse the strategic approaches, challenges and pitfalls for digital transformations with a view to futuristic
developments. Using real-world case studies of solutions used within developing smart cities such as London,
the learnings will be applied to build a digital transformation business case.

Credits info

7.5 EC
7.5 ECTS, 4 US, 15 UCL

Fee info

GBP 2350: There is a built-in tuition fee discount for students who study for 6 weeks (2 modules).