Implement and accelerate your organization’s digital transformation
Digital transformation has become a necessity, yet research suggests that 87% of digital transformation initiatives fail to meet expectations. If you’ve been tasked with implementing your organization’s digital transformation, you need to be aware of the pitfalls you will inevitably encounter and be familiar with experience-based best practices.
This program is based on a decade of research on digital transformation and hundreds of interviews with business leaders involved in it. It will enable you to:
- Discover best practices for implementing the digital transformation of your business
- Accelerate and take the risk out of digital transformation by drawing on real-world experiences
- Develop a clear mental roadmap of the main challenges you will face, and a toolbox of actionable solutions to them
You can take this program as a standalone course or as part of the IMD Digital Excellence Diploma.

Your online learning journey
Your five-week journey will take you through the entire digital transformation process, from initiation to implementation, scaling, and the point when digital is firmly anchored within an organization and needs to be sustained. You will not only prepare to address the main challenges at every stage of the process, but will also translate these learnings into actionable steps for your organization.
Each week of the program requires 4-6 hours of time commitment and includes clear learning objectives and deliverables to help you self-measure the impact of your learning. You will be accompanied by a dedicated executive coach who will give you weekly feedback and support and help you to translate what you learn to your own context.
- Learn how to create a clear and powerful digital transformation objective
- Adopt strategies to align the top team to drive transformation success
- Build urgency into the transformation even if your organizations is performing well
- Develop effective funding mechanisms for your digital programs
- Get your board of directors on board for digital transformation
- Choose the right governance model for your transformation
- Learn how to make IT and digital work together seamlessly
- Leverage digital tools and technologies to achieve organizational resilience
- Learn how to manage partnerships and build ecosystems
- Find out how to manage digital in a responsible and sustainable manner
- Understand how to leverage digital to move from products to services and solutions
- Build a balanced portfolio of digital initiatives
- Learn how to become an effective digital leader
- Understand how to make the role of the CDO, or any digital leader, a success
- Develop approaches to build digital skills within your organization
- Understand and develop the literacies required for your and your teams to adopt a digital mindset
- Learn how to effectively take digital projects from start start-up to scale-up
- Leverage different approaches to measuring the performance of digital initiatives
- Understand how to move beyond digital transformation
- Identify the steps required to transform into a digital business
Learning toolkit
Our structured, yet flexible online programs are designed for impact and delivered for you. Explore what makes the IMD online program experience exceptional.
Length: 5 weeks (4-6 hours per week).
Join as a team
A team from the same company that enrolls for any of our online programs benefits from a special rate (every 10th participant joins the program for free). We can also work with you to customize learning objectives to your team’s goals, enabling you to develop a common approach to your specific organizational challenges. Contact us to explore the best solution for you.


IMD NEXUS members receive a number of seats in addition to a wide range of further benefits and services.
