In this lecture, students develop an understanding of what it means to implement a fundamental change in a company as consequence of the digitalization. For this purpose, the management of both technical and social systems is required.

Degree

Bachelor

Cycle

Summer term

Language

German

Qualification goals

The students

• know the goal and tasks of transformation projects in companies
• get a basic understanding for typical technical and social challenges of transformation projects
• are able to place resistance in a company in a theoretical context, asses them and derive recommendations

Structure

• Basics of transformation projects
• Levels of transformation ad architectures to describe enterprise transformations
• Influencing factors outside and within the company
• Describe and design concepts of the transformation management
  • Process models
  • Resistances
  • Theoretical considerations for the description of the resistances
  • Models and methods, experiences
  • Success factors of transformation
• Implementation controlling

Literature

• Matt, C.; Hess, T.; Benlian, A.: Digital Transformation Strategies. In Business and Information Systems Engineering. Springer, Wiesbaden 2010, S. 339-343
• Mannsfeld, M.N.: Innovatoren. Individuen im Innovationsmanagement. Wiesbaden 2011. 
• Hanna, N.K.: Enabling Enterprise Transformation- Business and Grassroots Innovation for the knowledge economy. Springer, New York 2010. 
• Lauer, T.: Change Management. Grundlagen und Erfolgsfaktoren. Wiesbaden 2011. 
• Pescher, J.: Change Management. Taxonomie und Erfolgsauswirkungen. Wiesbaden 2010. 
• Uhl, A.; Gollenia, L. A.: Digital Enterprise Transformation- A Business-Driven Approach to Leveraging Innovative IT. Gower, 2014. ISBN: 978-1-4724-4854-5 
• Rouse, William B.: A Theory to Enterprise Transformation. In Systems Engineering, Vol. 8, No. 4, 2005, S. 279-295

Method of assessment

Final exam (usually 90 minutes)