Accelerating Digital Transformation with Algorithmic Business Thinking

Digital transformation marks a radical rethinking of how technology, people, and processes combine to create and deliver value. This exciting new digital transformation education course introduces the concept of Algorithmic Business Thinking as a toolkit, mindset, and digital language for uniting and augmenting your human and digital capabilities, which will help you discover and uncover new opportunities throughout your digital transformation journey.

To successfully and sustainably accelerate digital transformation, we need to upgrade the way we think about, talk about, and act upon technology in our companies. Leaders need a toolkit for combining human capabilities and advanced technologies to create solutions that are more than the sum of their parts. Algorithmic Business Thinking, a concept developed here at MIT, is a series of insights and frameworks for business leaders that enable you to:

• Accelerate digital transformation and optimize ROI on AI and technology investments
• Upskill your workforce and extend your customer base
• Create elite digital professionals who speak a common digital language inside and outside of the company
• Evolve your digital transformation strategy, leadership, and management approaches
• Unite human and machine capabilities to ask and answer business questions in ways that deliver competitive advantage

Accelerating Digital Transformation with Algorithmic Business Thinking is delivered over seven weeks with each module released on a weekly basis (week one is an Orientation Module). This course integrates a range of engaging learning media including live webinars, videos, podcasts, faculty office hours in our MIT Sloan virtual world as well as contextual notes, readings and interactive discussion threads.

Each module is broken down into thematic units that combine video lessons and engaging learning activities to consume content and practice applying it. Throughout the program you will be supported by your dedicated MIT Sloan Digital Learning Facilitator Team. This team will guide you through your course experience and be a contact point for any questions you may have.

This digital transformation course brings together insights from a team of world-renowned MIT Faculty. It also provides participants with access to our always open 4Dx virtual environment for office hours with the Faculty Director and for networking opportunities with other learners.

You’ll leave this digital transformation course with:

• A deeper understanding of advanced technologies, the patterns they share, and the critical human capabilities required to operationalize and integrate them in your company.
• The ability to look at challenges and opportunities with an algorithmic mindset that breaks problems down into solvable parts and recombines those parts in a way that makes the best possible use of machines and humans.
• An understanding of how to drive digital transformation that generates value now, not just in the unpredictable future
• A certificate of completion from the MIT Sloan School of Management. This course may also count toward MIT Sloan Executive Certificate requirements.

As a participant in this course, you will better understand:

• How to recalibrate your human and machine relationship to fit the realities of your teams and company.
• The human-centered capabilities essential to digital transformation—and how to leverage machines to augment those capabilities.
• How to apply key principles of computer science to a broad range of complex business problems.

You will also benefit from:

• Practical examples of algorithmic business thinking in practice and their implications.
• Opportunities to practice reading, writing, and improving algorithms with our hands-on activities (no programming experience required).
• An introduction to a new digital language that you can speak across your company in all roles and levels.

We accept enrollments until the offering reaches capacity at which point we will maintain a waitlist. Many of the courses fill up several weeks in advance, so we advise that you enroll as early as possible to secure your seat.

Please note, you may enroll in the program up to 7 days from the published program start date. If you're still interested in enrolling after the published start day, send us an email to get started.