Professional Diploma in Leading Digital Transformation

• IMI is in the top 2% of executive education providers worldwide.
• We have been empowering business leaders to build their capabilities for over 70 years.
• We are ranked #1 in Ireland for the quality of our teaching staff on Custom programmes.
• As a not-for-profit organisation, our full focus is on you, the participant. Through continuous reinvestment, we engage world class faculty to enhance the learning experience and deliver highly contextualised and outcome-lead programmes. This provides you with the best opportunity possible to grow your career.

Workshop 1:  24, 25, and 26 March 2025

Workshop 2:  28, 29, and 30 April 2025

Workshop 3:  26, 27, and 28 May 2025

Workshop 4:  23, 24, and 25 June 2025

Workshop 5:  1 and 2 September 2025

Workshop 6:  4 November 2025

Strategic Digital Leadership

• Holistically understand the drivers of digital transformation
• Understand and navigate organisational culture in digital transformation.
• Apply design thinking and sensemaking to develop a strategic vision.
• Assess personal mindsets and behaviours for emerging digital leadership practices.
• Educate and align senior leadership on cultural and human aspects of digital transformation.

Leading Cultural Change for Successful Digital Transformation

• Demonstrate an understanding of contemporary organisational cultures through the lens of digital transformation.
• Evaluate cultural appetite for and understanding of organisational adaptability and innovation practices.
• Manage cultural dynamics and resistance using design thinking.
• Align digital with organisational values and foster a culture of innovation.
• Create an open culture that embraces digital disruption and transformation.

Innovation for Digital Success and the Management of Risk

• Identify and critique digital trends, technologies, and platforms.
• Critically assess the digital disruption and transformation research, models, and frameworks.
• Test digital disruption impact and transformation tools and techniques.
• Critically appraise threats and opportunities from digital trends, technologies, platforms, and business models.
• Assess and mitigate risks in digital initiatives while promoting continuous learning.

Communicating and Implementing Sustainable Digital Change

• Effectively map stakeholders and their interests to develop a communications plan.
• Use storytelling as a basis for creating organisational buy-in.
• Communicate effectively with stakeholders about digital transformation using design thinking principles.
• Develop and implement user-centred digital strategies to implement and sustain digital transformation.
• Effectively track progress, including early wins and key milestones, to build commitment.

Digital Transformation Project: Managing Digital Disruption

You will engage with cutting-edge research, models, frameworks, and tools to analyse current digital trends, technologies, platforms, and business models.

This programme is ideal for leaders and managers with a minimum of three years of experience who are involved in digital transformation initiatives. Whether you’re in senior management or a project leadership role, you’ll refine your skills to navigate the complexities of digital change and drive better performance for your organisation.

• A candidate’s eligibility for each Professional Diploma will be determined by a combination of their academic qualifications and/or relevant professional experience.
• A primary degree from a recognised third- level institution (NFQ level 8), with a minimum classification of Second Class Honours, will typically be required with five years relevant work experience, at least 3 of which must be at managerial level, however, prior workplace learning will be recognised where applicants do not meet the academic requirement.
• This experience may come from a general business or organisational background, or experience working at a management level or in the area specifically related to the Professional Diploma. The candidate may be interviewed by the Programme Director. The IMI Office of the Registrar will oversee all applications, and the final decision on any application shall remain with the IMI Registrar.
• All applicants whose first language is not English will be required to show evidence of the successful completion of an IELTS or TOEFL test or equivalent as specified within the application form. The English language requirement when using IELTS is a score of 6.5 with a minimum of 6.0 in each individual section or equivalent.

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