Leading Digital Transformation
The course will improve your awareness of digitalisation, allow you to understand change management, teach you how to create and reimagine new capabilities using technology and transform you into a visionary leader.
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Key Course Details
If you are a leader, a manager, or an individual who will use digital technology to instigate and drive transformational change within your public sector, third sector or private organisation, this course is for you. Our MSc in Leading Digital Transformation aims to support leaders to challenge traditional practice, to be more curious about processes, and to ‘think digital first’ to re-imagine and improve their organisation and services for the benefit of their users, stakeholders, and employees.
Module Overview
The course uses three distinct strands of study which underpin the essence of digital transformation.
Leading Digital Transformation
This module will develop your leadership skills and give you strategic tools to do just that.
Exploring Digital Technology 1
This module looks at the key elements of working digitally in all sectors. Using Global examples, we explore Understanding ‘digital’ culture, & thinking ‘digital first’.
User-Centred Design Thinking
This module will explore various topics including the design cycle, understanding the problem, design research methods, generating ideas, empathy mapping and ethnographic interviews.
Leading Digital Transformation Teams
The module covers leadership and management within a digital culture, agile practice and process, transforming self/teams/culture, project management within a digital context and user-centred design.
User Experience Design
Explore UX design concepts and practice, improving user experience through design in response to a key challenge from the stakeholder group and case studies of UX from within and outside the sector.
Exploring Digital Technologies 2
Take an in-depth look at digital in practice and the art of the possible through topics including automation, AI, low code applications, simulation and digital twins and virtual and augmented reality.
Applied Digital Transformation Project proposal and Final Major Digital Transformation Project
Discover the difference you can make to your organisation and your service users through initiating and developing an impactful Digital Transformation and leading on taking it through to prototype, pilot or delivery.
ENTRY REQUIREMENTS
Typical qualification requirements:
To be admitted for the MSc course, candidates will typically be required to hold a minimum UK 2nd class honours degree or recognised international equivalent qualification. Relevant work experience can also be taken into account.
International applications welcomed:
We welcome international applications with equivalent qualifications of our entry requirements. For more details related to your country of residence, please view our dedicated country pages.
English language requirements
International applicants will need to have achieved an overall of IELTS 6.0 with a minimum of 5.5 in each component/TOEFL 72 overall and a minimum of 18 in reading, 17 in listening, 20 in speaking and 17 in writing or equivalent.
Equivalents can be located on our English Language pages.
If you have previously studied through the medium of English, IELTS might not be required, please visit our country specific page for further details. If your country is not featured, please contact us.
If you do not meet the English entry criteria, please visit our Pre-Sessional course pages.
Contextual offers
We may make you a lower offer based on a range of factors, including your background (where you live and the school or college that you attended, for example), your experiences and individual circumstances (as a care leaver, for example). This is referred to as a contextual offer, and we receive data from UCAS to support us in making these decisions.
USW prides itself on its student experience and we support our students to achieve their goals and become a successful graduate. This approach helps us to support students who have the potential to succeed and who may have faced barriers that make it more difficult to access university.
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Whether you a have a question about your course, fees and funding, the application process or anything else, there are plenty of ways you can get in touch, and we'd love to talk to you. You can contact our friendly admissions team by phone, email or chat to us online.
Fees and Funding
Additional Costs
As a student of USW, you’ll have access to lots of free resources to support your study and learning, such as textbooks, publications, online journals, laptops, and plenty of remote-access resources. Whilst in most cases these resources are more than sufficient in supporting you with completing your course, additional costs, both obligatory and optional, may be required or requested for the likes of travel, memberships, experience days, stationery, printing, or equipment.
University Quality Assurance
At USW, we regularly review our courses in response to changing patterns of employment and skills demand to ensure we offer learning designed to reflect today’s student needs and tomorrow’s employer demands.
If during a review process course content is significantly changed, we’ll write to inform you and talk you through the changes for the coming year. But whatever the outcome, we aim to equip our students with the skillset and the mindset to succeed whatever tomorrow may bring. Your future, future-proofed.
Course Highlights
How you’ll learn
The course is delivered online and taught for four hours over a ½ day each week. Throughout the year, we bring in guests from the healthcare sector and other industries.
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Assessment
There will be a mixture of assessments including assignments, presentations, professional discussions, and reflective journals.
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Support
We offer bespoke one to one support with each module. All sessions are recorded which you will have access to. We work in an agile, adaptive way to your needs.
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Studying at USW
Our courses are designed with industry leaders and provide the practical skills and experiences industry demands. Our flexible courses reflect the need for life-long learning. If you value education in practice, not just in theory, then USW is for you.
How to apply
There is an online application process for this course. Please choose the application form for your preferred start date and mode of study (i.e. full-time or part-time).
International admissions
Please see our international admissions advice for further information about how to apply as a prospective international student.