Course Highlights

• A self-paced online course delivered over six weeks 
• This course brings together insights from a team of world-renowned MIT Faculty
• Highly interactive course using a range of engaging learning media, including live webinars and keynotes, videos, and podcasts 
• You will take away an Algorithmic Business Thinking “Journal” as a resource to use in your company 
• You will earn a certificate of course completion from the MIT Sloan School of Management

Course Snapshot

Why attend Accelerating Digital Transformation with Algorithmic Business Thinking (ABT)?

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

Self-Paced Experience

• Algorithmic Business Thinking is delivered over seven weeks
• Each module is 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

In the self-paced format you will:

• Spend 4-6 hours per module on learning related activities
• Experience a broad range of digital content: video lessons, animations, live polls, discussion forums, assignments and application activities
• Apply your weekly learning and insights to selected challenges and opportunities in your Algorithmic Business Thinking “Journal” that you will take away from the program as a resource to use in your company

Accelerating Digital Transformation with Algorithmic Business Thinking provides learners with a diverse and engaging learning experience built upon components, including the following:

• Access to MIT Sloan 4Dx Virtual Collaboration Center: We recognize the importance of networking with other learners and having access to faculty. We think it’s important to be able to collaborate around the key themes, content and context of the learning experience. With this in mind, all participants will be given access to MIT Sloan Executive Education’s always open tailored 4Dx Virtual Collaboration Center. Meet with your fellow learners, talk about the program, collaborate on your assignments or simply hang out and share ideas.
• Live Townhall keynotes: During modules 1 and 6, the Faculty Director will deliver live townhall sessions in MIT Sloan Executive Education’s 4Dx Virtual Collaboration Center. These sessions will be recorded and available for participants to view and revisit during the course.
• Office Hours: On the Friday of modules 1, 3, and 5, Faculty Director Paul McDonagh Smith is available for individual, virtual meetings to discuss your questions and ideas.
• Program Project: At the close of each content module, you will be invited to complete and submit an assignment related to the key themes of that section of the program. By the end of the program, you will have a robust workbook that you can take away from the course and use with your teams and communities.
• Module podcasts: At the end of each module, you can access a downloadable podcast that summarizes the key ideas, insights, and frameworks covered in that module. Each podcast will be 8-12 minutes in length. By the end of the course, you have an hour-long audio executive summary of the course.

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Applying to the Course

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