MSc in Management
Digital Management
Ivey’s MSc in Digital Management is designed to train leaders who can bridge the gap between technology and business. Build on entrepreneurial thinking, business capability, and a strong technological understanding. Begins in September.
MSc in Management
Digital Management
Ivey’s MSc in Digital Management is designed to train leaders who can bridge the gap between technology and business. Build on entrepreneurial thinking, business capability, and a strong technological understanding.
MSc in Management
Digital Management
Ivey's MSc in Digital Management is designed to train leaders who can bridge the gap between technology and business. Build on entrepreneurial thinking, business capability, and a strong technological understanding.
The business world is changing rapidly and companies have to re-think who they are. In order to do this, organizations need graduates who can bridge the gap between business and technology. The MSc in Management, Digital Management is a degree that trains business people for the technology space to work on the boundaries of innovation. Technology also underpins a lot of entrepreneurial action and opportunities. Graduates from this program will be capable of applying innovation techniques to drive business transformation and new venture creation. This degree is not something that exists at other schools: we started from scratch to design a degree for tomorrow’s business needs.
At the end of the Ivey MSc, you will be prepared to move into digital management careers where you are able to bridge the gap between business people and technology people – pushing forward innovative practices that businesses need to put into play so that they can manage an unpredictable future.
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Digital Innovation Lab
Entrepreneurship in Digital Management
Student Backgrounds
The Venture Field Project
What Will You Learn
Preparing for Disruption
CUSTOMIZE YOUR LEARNING WITH DIGITAL BADGES
Students in the Digital Management stream can customize their learning experience by completing a series of digital badges, as part of your Innovation courses (one each term).
In partnership with Coursera, Ivey has curated content to help you build introductory tech skills in specific areas. A different set of technical content will be required each term and based on prior skill level, you can choose options within each of these areas:
- Design Software and Techniques, e.g. Web design, UX design.
- Systems Analysis and Design, e.g. LucidChart / Modelio.
- Programming for Business, e.g., R, Python, Java, or Quantum Computing Language.
- Business Applications, e.g. Salesforce, SAP, or Watson.
Additionally, Coursera offers certifications and badges which you can earn if you want to go deeper in any of these areas or others available on their platform at no additional fee. These badges could provide you with a distinct set of technical skills customized to your preferences and career trajectory.
It's a great way to enhance your career path.
Program Curriculum
SEPTEMBER TO DECEMBER
Ivey Essentials and Core Courses
Core Courses
- Design Driven Innovation: Innovation is a necessary condition for entrepreneurship, be it among startups or established businesses. The course will provide students with a deep conceptual knowledge of innovation in its various forms, understand innovation processes, be able to apply that knowledge to build innovation-centric strategies, and to solve common problems related to innovation management. Specifically, the course will explore: product, service and process innovation concepts; innovation in high-tech and low-tech industries; how firms build and sustain innovation-centric strategies; creating and fostering a culture of innovation; and striking the balance between promoting innovation and harvesting its benefits.
- Digital Transformation: This course focuses on how the advance of digital technologies extends the management capabilities required for competitive success across a range of business disciplines, including strategy, finance, marketing, innovation, partner and customer relationship management, risk management, organizational structure and people management and beyond. The course examines “digital next chapter” issues in each of these disciplines, from platform dynamics in strategy to online customer engagement in marketing, to protecting against new digital risks. The course’s broad overview of the differences between digital business competition and more traditional ways of competing provide a context for the other core and elective courses in the program.
- Innovation 1
- MSc-Led Hack-a-Thon
- Resume/Portfolio Design Bootcamp
- At least one blended learning course badge in Design Software and Techniques, e.g. Adobe Cloud Design, etc.
Ivey Essentials
These courses focus on business essentials: Accounting, Finance, Leadership, Marketing, Operations and Strategy. Students will be introduced to Ivey’s high engagement case-based learning methodology. These courses are designed to aid students in understanding materials for their courses throughout the program.
Some of the key learning outcomes include:
- Accounting: recording and using of financial business transactions to inform and support decision-making.
- Finance: analyzing of financial problems corporations face including managing exchange risk, calculating the cost of capital, capital budgeting and taxation.
- Leadership / Organizational Behavior: managing and participating effectively in teams by understanding the factors that lead to effective and ineffective team behavior.
- Marketing: identifying and capitalizing on market opportunities.
- Operations: identifying and understanding how effectively managing operations contributes to customer value.
- Strategy: key concepts and tools in the context of competitive strategy; differences between corporate, competitive, and functional strategies.
- Business Communications: develop an understanding about targeting your message and flexing your style to your audience.
JANUARY TO APRIL
Core Courses
Core Courses
- Entrepreneurship
- Digital Platform Implementation
- Innovation 2
- Innovation Hub Corporate Visits
- Networking/Portfolio Fair
- At least one blended learning course badge in Programming for Business, e.g. R, Python, Have, Quantum, Computing languages etc.
Elective Courses
Course offerings are subject to change and will vary by term. Choose two electives from:
- Competing in and with China
- Causal Inference
- Entrepreneurship & Growth
- Global Supply Chain Management
- Data Driven Management
- Technology and Humanity
- Inequality and Business
- Data Management
- Leading Responsibly
- Global Corporate Finance
- Frontier Markets
- Macroeconomics for Managers
- Global Financial Markets
- Sustainability
- Managing Risk in Organizations
- Systems Thinking
- Accounting, Governance & Risk
MAY TO AUGUST
Core Courses and Elective Courses
Core Courses
- Ivey Digital Innovation Lab
- May Studio (4 weeks). Corporate Innovation 1. Corporate Camp 1.
- June Studio (4 weeks). Corporate Innovation 2. Corporate Camp 2.
- July/August Studio (4 weeks). Non-profit or Social Enterprise Innovation
- Innovation 3
SEPTEMBER TO DECEMBER
Core Course & Elective Courses
Core Course
- Venturing Field Project
- Innovation 4
- Device Library Project (with Engineering)
- Best Practices in Business Applications (e.g. industry specific Salesforce, SAP, Watson)
Elective Courses
Course offerings are subject to change and will vary by term. Choose two electives from:
- Competing in and with China
- Causal Inference
- Entrepreneurship & Growth
- Global Supply Chain Management
- Data Driven Management
- Technology and Humanity
- Inequality and Business
- Data Management
- Leading Responsibly
- Global Corporate Finance
- Frontier Markets
- Macroeconomics for Managers
- Global Financial Markets
- Sustainability
- Managing Risk in Organizations
- Systems Thinking
- Accounting, Governance & Risk
Electives are available for all MSc streams unless otherwise noted. Course offerings are subject to change and will vary by term.
Why an MSc
The Ivey MSc addresses the need for a new brand of manager — experts who understand what defines a business best practice and can translate that knowledge into action.
Translate Data into Action
Translate real-world data into actionable insights for business decision-making.
Industries with Growing Demand
Enter industries with a growing demand for analytically driven individuals.
Differentiate Yourself
Differentiate yourself with a set of identifiable and valuable skills.
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