The proposed curriculum should reflect the radical change that information technologies will bring to the existing social and economic order. This disruption will bring about major changes in the mix of skills profiles and competencies industry requires for managing digital transformation. The research undertaken so far has proved that both specialist technical and general skills will be in high demand. Also the functional and disciplinary organization, as it is reflected in most Management curricula taught in higher education, will be replaced by cross-disciplinary and more holistic approaches. In addition soft skills will gain higher priority as the change process will bring about a much more networked and interconnected type of companies and collaboration processes. A modern approach will be implemented by collaborating universities in designing a curriculum based on cooperation with the corporate sector and is to reflect companies' recent requirements of graduates skills to be acquired on such a study programe. Collaborative work of university partners will run on a newly created project platform (cf G. Project Management and Implementation).
This IO will supply the following deliverables:
The planned future Master’s programme will be organized as a joint degree program, which means that it will be developed and implemented jointly by three partner universities. The joint degree program can be seen as a transnational education platform enabling the partner universities to combine strengths in expertise, knowledge, learning models and scientific culture of three different European universities in such a unique way that the result is superior to each single national institution’s approach.
The planned study program should contain three main pillars of content: (1) core corporate business skills, (2) HR and innovation skills and (3) IT, data analysis and technical skills. Teaching modules of every pillar should be closely related to a project, which could be either a corporate or a scientific research project. According to reviews of core strengths of collaborating partners it seems that competencies can be divided as follows: Bielefeld's focus on core business skills, Tartu's on soft sills and innovation and Brno's on IT / Big Data competencies.
This project shared by the three partner universities Bielefeld University of Applied Sciences/D, Brno University of Technology/CZ and University of Tartu/EST aims to provide the framework for a future joint master's degree on Digital Transformation of Corporate Business.