Digital Strategy and Data-Driven Business
Digital Strategy and Data-Driven Business is a two-day module in the Leading Digital Transformation program and can also be taken as a stand-alone program.
The role of information technology in companies has gradually shifted from supporting the core business to a central resource for companies’ value creation and competitive strategies. Companies that have yet to undergo a digital transformation risk being left behind, while industry leaders are using data and smart algorithms ever more broadly to better serve their customers and create value for shareholders. The recent advances in generative AI, and particularly large language models, underline the importance of digitalization in all industries.
Digital capabilities allow a fundamental shift in value creation, as human routines are gradually replaced with smart and adaptive processes run by real-time data streams and algorithms. These changes are associated with a shift towards digital ecosystems and platforms. To prosper in this new digitalized reality, firms must embed themselves effectively in collaborative networks and develop new business models to capture value.
This module provides participants with an in-depth understanding of the ongoing changes in strategy and management practice brought by contemporary digital technologies. The readings, case studies, and class discussions will help you understand how to rethink the sources of competitive advantage, offerings, and the broader operating model at a traditional company.
The module will enable the participants to:
- Understand the technical changes, economic logic, and new business models driving the ongoing digital transformation across diverse industries
- Identity, forecast, and respond to changes taking place in an industry, including the shift towards digital ecosystems
- Analyse and formulate strategies related to digital solutions, ecosystems, and platforms
- Understand the new managerial mindset and strategic priorities associated with effective use of contemporary digital technologies
- Design new business processes and business models related to generative AI.
Benefits
The program will challenge and reward you as our world-class experts help you cut through the noise of digitalization and technology and focus on what really matters for your business. It covers the latest trends in technology and provides you with practical tools and methods for agile implementation of new skills and knowledge at work. It will help you challenge your strategic thinking and gain a comprehensive overview of the latest theory, technologies, and business applications.
For
The program is for business leaders, senior executives, and decision-makers responsible for leveraging the possibilities created by digitalization within their companies.
We recommend the program for core strategy team members, business development managers, and digital transformation leaders.
Instructors
Henri Schildt
Henri Schildt is a Professor of Strategy at Aalto University School of Business and Aalto University School of Science.
Professor Henri Schildt’s research interests span technology strategy, organizational change, and strategy process (with specific interest in reasoning under uncertainty and the use of data analytics). He is currently heading two research programs on data-driven management and the management of digitalization in Finnish manufacturing companies.
He is a tenured professor with a joint appointment at the Aalto University School of Business and the School of Science’s Department of Industrial Engineering and Management.
Henri Schildt completed his PhD at Helsinki University of Technology in 2007.
Program Fee and Registration
Other Leading Digital Transformation Modules
May 5–6, 2025
Schedule May 5–6, 2025
Location Aalto University Töölö, Helsinki, Finland
This program addresses leadership and organizational perspective of digitalization, including how to use data-based insights in leading people, how to collaborate in digital ecosystems across organizational boundaries, and how to lead people in digital transformation.
Fee: € 3,100 (+ VAT)
November 2025
Schedule November 2025
Location Aalto University Töölö, Helsinki, Finland
This program touches on digital transformation, especially from the perspective of technology and data. During the program focus on how digitalization, platform economy, digital technology strategies, and innovative business models are transforming and providing new opportunities for business. We will also investigate data strategy and how to build a competent data team.
Fee: € 4,650 (+ VAT)
Flexible start, can be completed in 6–9 months
Schedule Flexible start, can be completed in 6–9 months
Location Aalto University Töölö, Helsinki, Finland
The program prepares you to disrupt the digital technology wave and leverage its full potential for real business benefits. It covers the latest trends in technology and provides you with practical tools and methods for the agile implementation of new skills and knowledge. It will help you to challenge your strategic thinking and gain a comprehensive overview of how organizational structures, practices, and culture will support the implementation of a renewed strategy as well as recognize the knowledge and skills needed for maintaining and gaining competitive advantage now and in the future.
Fee: € 12,700 (+ VAT)