Organizational Agility in Digital Transformation Designing and Leading Change

To survive in the rapidly evolving market, it's crucial to understand that success in the era of digital transformation goes beyond simply adopting new technologies – it also depends on how well people and processes are supported. This course builds the capacity of leaders and teams to manage the challenges of digital transformation by focusing on both human and organizational elements. Through hands-on case studies, strategic planning exercises, and personalized feedback, you'll gain practical tools to drive successful technology integration. You'll leave with actionable next steps, strategic frameworks, and valuable connections to support your continued success in the digital age.

In this 3-day short course, participants will:

• Understand the range of human and organizational issues in digital transformation and how they underpin success.
• Complete a human and organizational readiness assessment for digital transformation.
• Learn frameworks and strategies for digital transformation job and organizational re-design and change management.
• Connect digital transformation job and organization re-design strategies to workforce recruitment and retention outcomes.
• Give and receive feedback with fellow participants on problems of practice through structured consultancy protocols and stregthen peer to peer connections.
• Create a holistic digital transformation roadmap for your project, initiative, or program.

This course is structured to support small teams as well as individual leaders to build their capacity and planning for holistic digital transformation. There will be ample time for application of concepts, case study analysis, planning, and feedback from both instructor and participants. Expect to leave with concrete next steps, cogent frameworks for strategy and decision-making, meaningful collegial connections for future discussions, and individualized feedback from the instructor.

• Strategic leaders: CEOs, VPs of Information Technology/CIOs, VP/Director of Human Resources; VPs/Directors of Engineering, VP/Directors of Product Development

•  Frontline Leaders

•  Operational Managers

•  Engineers

•  Technical Team

Course Objectives:

1. Understand the importance and landscape of human and organizational issues in digital transformation success.
2. Build capacity to know and understand your company's organizational readiness to implement digital transformation technologies.
3. Create high level strategic plans for job and organizational re-design and change management.

Module 1: Digital Transformation and Human and Organizational Factors

Module 2: Benchmarking Digital Transformation Human and Organizational Reediness

Module 3: Organizational and Job Design: Principles and Practices and Practice for Digital Transformation

Module 4: Digital Transformation Consultancies

Module 5: Holistic Change Management for Leaders Navigating Digital Transformation

Module 6: Action Planning for Holistic Digital Transformation

Sara Kraemer

Sara Kraemer, PhD is an advisor and educator who supports companies and firms in optimizing their technology, engineering, and business processes through effective human-technology design. She is the founder of Blueprint for Engineering, an expert advisory practice focused on holistic digital transformation in engineering and technology firms. 

Dr. Kraemer is also a Lecturer in the Interdisciplinary Professional Programs in the College of Engineering at the University of Wisconsin-Madison where she teaches classes on human factors engineering, smart manufacturing, and digital transformation. She holds a PhD in Industrial and Systems Engineering with a focus on human factors engineering from the University of Wisconsin-Madison.