The Wharton School

Navigating Digital Disruption

The Wharton School

Strategy and Innovation

About Programme

Digital disruption is reshaping industries, business models, and competition right now. But understanding what’s changing is only the beginning. The harder question is what to do about it inside your organization, where culture, legacy systems, and competing priorities make action complicated.

Using real-world cases, from classic transformation stories to today’s platform giants, this course helps you make sense of disruption, evaluate your organization’s readiness to respond, weigh sustaining versus disruptive innovation approaches, and understand how platforms and ecosystems create and capture value. By the end, you will have practical tools for making smart strategic recommendations, even when the information is incomplete and the stakes are high.

Programme Content

Build the strategic foundations needed to lead in an environment of continuous digital change. By the end of the course, you will be able to:

Understand how disruption works and why the same technology shift plays out differently across industries and organizations
Assess whether your organization is positioned to respond by examining the leadership, structural, and cultural conditions that shape transformation outcomes
Navigate the real costs and trade-offs of transformation, including cannibalization risks, resource tensions, and timing decisions
Choose the right innovation approach by comparing sustaining and disruptive strategies and recommending the best fit for your situation
Evaluate platform and ecosystem opportunities — when platform models outperform traditional product approaches, how network effects drive growth, and how monetization models evolve
Build your own leadership approach to transformation that connects strategic thinking, organizational awareness, and a commitment to continuous learning

Delivered fully online and self-paced, this course features three in-depth modules (approximately two to three hours each). A blend of short-form video lectures, guided workbook reflections, applied activities, and optional challenge exercises will help you immediately connect frameworks to your own industry and organization.

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

Diagnose emerging disruption signals and organizational response patterns in your own context
Make decisions under uncertainty — including how to navigate culture, resistance, and resource constraints
Build a platform or ecosystem plan with network effects, openness choices, and monetization logic
Complete a capstone project you can bring back to work: a 90-Day Transformation Leadership Plan or a Platform Pivot Toolkit

By the end, you won’t just understand disruption differently — you will have practical tools and a portfolio of your own work you can use right away.

Programme Audience

This course is designed for professionals who need to make sense of digital disruption and translate that understanding into action, including:

Strategy and corporate development leaders who need sharper frameworks for diagnosing disruption and recommending transformation paths
Transformation and program leaders responsible for making digital initiatives work inside real organizations
Product, platform, and growth leaders evaluating ecosystem strategies and platform business models
Operations and general management leaders accountable for translating strategy into execution under constraint
Technology-adjacent leaders in IT, data, analytics, or innovation shaping how their organizations respond to change

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

Understand how disruption works and why the same technology shift plays out differently across industries and organizations
Assess whether your organization is positioned to respond by examining the leadership, structural, and cultural conditions that shape transformation outcomes
Navigate the real costs and trade-offs of transformation, including cannibalization risks, resource tensions, and timing decisions
Choose the right innovation approach by comparing sustaining and disruptive strategies and recommending the best fit for your situation
Evaluate platform and ecosystem opportunities — when platform models outperform traditional product approaches, how network effects drive growth, and how monetization models evolve
Build your own leadership approach to transformation that connects strategic thinking, organizational awareness, and a commitment to continuous learning

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