The Wharton School

Leading the Digital Organization

The Wharton School

Strategy and Innovation

About Programme

Most organizations understand what digital disruption is and why it matters. Far fewer succeed in reorganizing people, structures, incentives, and attention to respond effectively over time. This course focuses squarely on that execution gap.

Across four modules, you will examine how organizations balance exploration and exploitation, design ambidextrous structures, mobilize networks and incentives to drive change, and build the vigilance needed to anticipate ongoing digital turbulence. Drawing on research-driven frameworks and rich cases, this course emphasizes how transformation unfolds inside real organizations — where inertia, resistance, and uncertainty are persistent features, not temporary obstacles — and builds your confidence to recommend clear strategic priorities and operating-model choices under uncertainty.

Programme Content

This course builds the organizational and leadership capabilities required to sustain digital transformation over time. By the end, you will be able to:

Explain the core logic of leading digital transformation and innovation under uncertainty
Recommend concrete actions that translate early warning signals into specific initiatives and learning bets
Integrate organizational design levers to align explore and exploit work
Apply leadership judgment to protect novelty, enable scaling, and lead through resistance
Practice a vigilance mindset that supports long-term preparedness
Build a repeatable process for scanning, framing uncertainty, and updating strategy and organizational choices

Delivered fully online and self-paced, this course features four in-depth modules (approximately two to three hours each). You will move through a blend of short-form video lectures, guided workbook reflections, applied activities, and optional stretch exercises that connect frameworks to your own organization.

You will go beyond concepts and put ideas into practice. Specifically, this course will equip you to:

Complete organizational diagnostics, network maps, ambidexterity assessments, and vigilance exercises grounded in your real context
Analyze how leadership vision, organizational structure, culture, and business models shape transformation outcomes
Develop practical approaches for balancing short-term performance with long-term adaptability
Build a strategic journal through the workbook that accumulates insights and diagnostic tools across modules

By the end, you will have frameworks and diagnostic tools you can bring directly into leadership conversations, planning cycles, and transformation initiatives.

Programme Audience

This course is designed for professionals who are responsible for making transformation work inside real organizations, including:

Strategy and corporate transformation leaders who need to design and recommend clear transformation strategies
Innovation and capability leaders focused on preparing their organizations for continuous change
Operations and general management leaders responsible for getting things done when priorities compete and the path forward is unclear
Change and program leaders responsible for rallying people, aligning incentives, and focusing attention across the organization
HR, organizational design, and technology leaders shaping how teams adopt new ways of working during transformation

To further leverage the value and impact of this program, we encourage companies to send cross-functional teams of executives to Wharton. We offer group-enrollment benefits to companies sending four or more participants.

Programme Benefits

Explain the core logic of leading digital transformation and innovation under uncertainty
Recommend concrete actions that translate early warning signals into specific initiatives and learning bets
Integrate organizational design levers to align explore and exploit work
Apply leadership judgment to protect novelty, enable scaling, and lead through resistance
Practice a vigilance mindset that supports long-term preparedness
Build a repeatable process for scanning, framing uncertainty, and updating strategy and organizational choices

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