The goals of the course are for the student to understand, critically evaluate, and apply, specifically:

• Understand the importance of the major technological trajectories and appreciate how new technological developments are impacting upon the process of firm strategy.
• Appreciate how data has become a new factor of production and one of most valuable resources and a source of competitive advantage for firms, learn about the industrial impact of digitization, including data, analytics, and AI
• Gain insight into process of platformization of markets and understand the differences between an ecosystem and a platform, critically analyze the implications of the platform model for strategy.
• Appreciate the role of new business models in successful innovation, critically analyze the differences between the closed and open innovation paradigms and business opportunities arising from the evolving landscape.
• Gain insight into new organizational forms, the role of strategic leadership, critically analyze the components and architecture of a high innovation organization