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Lesson details

DIGITAL INNOVATION AND BUSINESS TRANSFORMATION : FROM CROWD-SOURCING TO BLOCKCHAIN
2018-2019	EnIESEG School of Management ( IÉSEG )
Class code :	1819-IÉSEG-M1S1-MIS-MA-EI64UE	MANAGEMENT OF INFORMATION SYSTEMS

Level	Year	Period	Language of instruction
Master	1	S1	EnEnglish

Academic responsibility	F.BOLICI , F.BOLICI
Lecturer(s)	F.BOLICI

IÉSEG > IESEG Degree - Programme Grande École > Semester 1 > 2,00 ECTS

Prerequisites

Students are expected to have basic knowledge of the topics addressed in management & organization courses and a general interest in digital tools and information technologies.

Learning outcomes

- Understand the mutual influence between technological innovation and organizations
- Understand the business benefits of new technologies and how this can add value and provide
competitive advantage (e.g. crowdsourcing, open/big data, virtual currencies)
- Demonstrate ability to understand managerial issues in an evolving digital environment
- Identify business advantages and improvements of adopting emerging technologies
- Identify the potentialities and the risks of innovative digital forms of collaboration, transactions and communication in organizational settings
- Understand key concepts concerning change management in organizations

Course description

Digital technologies can transform industries, enable new organizational forms and influence the design of organizational processes as well as individual behaviour and relationships. This course provides students with design thinking and practical frameworks for understanding the opportunities and the risks provided by the diffusion and the adoption of innovative digital technologies. This course will present cases and practical examples of how digital innovation is transforming organizational systems and in class discussion will be focused on the analysis of potential organizational solutions. Particular attention will be paid on two domains: online collaboration (e.g. open source, crowdsourcing, distributed teams) and distributed coordination mechanisms (e.g. virtual currencies, blockchain, smart contracts).

Class type

Class structure

Type of course	Numbers of hours	Comments
Independent work
Research	4,00
Independent study
Estimated personal workload	8,00
Group Project	8,00
Face to face
Interactive class	16,00
Total student workload	36,00

Teaching methods

Case study
Interactive class
Project work

Assessment

The assessment is both at individual level (final exam and individual participation, also contributing to the wiki page of the course) and group level (team-project).