ICT Infrastructure and Digital Transformation

The course introduces the students to the digital transformation phenomena and digital strategy making for a company. Students get acquainted with main information and communication infrastructure (ICT) technologies, enabling new ways to digitalize processes in a company. They learn to mine and model business processes for visualizing company digital twins, to design digital business technology platforms and service-oriented architectures, to employ cloud computing, AI and data analytics technologies in company ICT infrastructure, manage digital transformation projects.

The purpose of this course is to teach how to create a digitization strategy in an organization, manage the digital transformation process, using modern ICT technologies and infrastructure as an enabler of digital transformation.

Software engineering basics; management basics

1. Digitalization and digital transformation. Introduction. 2. Digital strategy making for a company. Digital innovations. 3. Business process modelling and optimization. BPMN specification. Visualizing a digital twin of a company. 4. Company information system planning. Integrated business management. 5. Platformization and platform-based business models 6. Components of the Digital Business Technology Platform. Service-oriented architectures 7. Cloud computing technologies in company ICT infrastructure 8. Data Analytics and AI technologies in business management 9. Digital transformation project management. Agile management. 10. Cybersecurity as integral part of a digital transformation strategy. 11. How digital transformation is affecting various industries – examples of FinTech, MarTech, LegalTech

1. Explains the digital transformation concept, advantages, implementation examples. 2. Formulates and presents digital strategy for a company. 3. Plans ICT infrastructure architecture and elements, needed for digital strategy implementation. 4. Builds and presents business process models for at least two business processes.