Due to the growing interest in data-driven innovation, organisations have employed countless initiatives to take benefit from new opportunities using big data and data analytics. As a result of the rise of (big) data analytics the adoption of  data-driven decision making systems and processes is accelerated even further. 

E-skills development for managing digital transformation is crucial for a successful digital transformation leader.

Digital technologies and applications create rapid changes and disruptions on all levels: the individual consumer, the corporate, and the societal. The changes brought about by digital technologies (internet of things, artificial intelligence, robotics, etc.) necessitate for companies adjustment to the changing ecosystem in order to ensure survival. Companies need to transform the way they do business and to modify their processes. To do so they need new frameworks, new business models and new tools. In this context, an understanding of how conventional and long standing business models must be transformed in order to accommodate the use of digital technologies and the changes in work patterns that accompany them is essential. This would enable organizations to create and capture value from digital tools.

We see digital transformations as the adaptation of public sector capacities, workflows, business processes, operations, methodologies and frameworks to the rapidly evolving dynamics and relations between the stakeholders that are already enabled – and in many instances empowered – by digital environments. Clearly, stages in digital transformations and the contexts determine the need for leadership modes.

Digital Transformation Challenges is a Capstone project, which has the aim to integrate all knowledge gained during the previous specializations of Managing digital transformation, considering that the learners do not need to be content experts on technical matters, but must have developed knowledge, insights and skills that help them to be the driver and manager of a successful digital transformation of the organization involved