| Program start date | Application deadline |
| 2025-09-01 | 2025-06-01 |
Program Overview
Master in Strategy and Digital Transformation
Overview
The Master in Strategy and Digital Transformation aims at cultivating digital masters that allow companies to transform digital technology into business advantage.
‘Digital transformation’ is a buzzword. However, real digital transformation is a holistic and complex endeavour that requires a systematic approach to its strategy and execution.
A recent study finds that becoming a digital master entails not only digital capability, that is the use of innovative technologies to improve elements of the business, but also leadership capability, in order to envision and drive organizational change in systematic and profitable ways. Digital transformation is 20% tech and 80% human.
This Master aims at equipping the students with the digital technologies knowledge as well as the skills needed to design and successfully lead digital transformation across functions (e.g. operations, customer experience, employee experience) and at the corporate level (strategy, business model innovation).
Key Program Advantages
- A comprehensive and multidisciplinary approach to business and strategy.
- Cutting-edge courses on digital innovation and transformation.
- Heavy focus on consulting skills (managing consultancy, business consultancy in a digital environment, transformation consulting).
- A digital innovation and transformation live business case through a hackathon.
Master Degree
Upon successful completion of the program (120 ECTS), students get the State-recognized ‘Grade de Master’ for this Postgraduate program (“DESMI – Diplôme d’Études Spécialisées en Management International”), with the specialization “Strategy and Digital Transformation”.
The degree is delivered by the French Ministry of Higher Education and Research, and registered with the French RNCP (the National Registry of Professional Certification) under the number RNCP37390.
Career Opportunities
The needs in terms of digital transformation in organizations are very important. This program thus opens to a wide range of careers in consultancy and project management notably. They can work as:
- Business Process Analyst
- Chief Digital Officer
- Digital Project Manager
- Digital Transformation Consultant
- Digital Transformation Manager
- Digital Strategy Consultant
- Operations Manager
- Strategy and Management Consultant
Class Profile
Our program attracts a wide range of people with diverse perspectives, cultures, opinions, and talents. Once again, this year, we welcome a new group of students originating from different parts of the world:
Program Details
- Duration: 3 Terms + Capstone Project
- Language: English
- Location: Paris – France
- Tuition Fees: €18,200 (Fast Track) / €21,200 (Regular Track)
- Start Date: September
- ECTS: 120
Directors’ Foreword
Dr. Cyrine BEN-HAFAÏEDH
Academic Director, Professor of Entrepreneurship, Innovation & Strategy
Our ambition with this exciting program is to cultivate digital leaders for business transformation. Moreover, every module seeks to strike the right balance between learning through cutting-edge research (theory) and learning-by-doing (practice). On top of these modules, three more particularly, aim at bringing all these different learning experiences together, as in real life, where you will not be addressing siloed issues: a business strategy simulation; a simulation focused on digital transformation where your mission will be to lead a legacy business into a new digital paradigm; and a hackathon where one or more of IÉSEG partner companies will present the students with one of their current issues related to strategy and digital transformation.
IÉSEG School of Management is a leading French business school that prepares changemakers to contribute to the development of responsible, innovative, and humanistic companies in a highly international context.
Founded in 1964, IÉSEG is a non-profit association under the French law of 1901. It is a member of the Université Catholique de Lille, the Conférence des Grandes Écoles, and the FESIC (Federation of Higher Education
Institutions of Collective Interest).
The school's governance is structured around three main bodies:
- Board of Trustees: Composed of personalities from the socio-economic world, it has an essential supervisory function and defines the school's strategy.
- Management Board: Responsible for the operational management of the school.
- Academic Board: Ensures the academic quality and coherence of the programs.
IÉSEG offers a range of programs, including Bachelor's, Master's , and MBA all designed to provide an international and multicultural learning experience. The school emphasizes ethical leadership, innovation, and social responsibility in its curriculum.
With campuses in Lille and Paris-La Défense, IÉSEG provides students with access to vibrant academic and professional environments.
What you need to apply:
- A Bachelor’s Degree with a strong analytical background (e.g., STEM field but not restricted to) from a recognized institution
- Transcripts in English/French of your Bachelor degree (up to date if you have not graduated yet)
- Your Bachelor diploma (if applicable)
- A good command of English; English Proficiency test for non-native speakers: IELTS Academic 6.5, TOEFL IBT 85, TOEIC 4 skills 850, Duolingo 115, Cambridge Exam B2.) Native English speakers or candidates who have had two years of courses taught in English are exempt.
- Copy of passport
- CV/Resume
- Online motivation video to be recorded on the platform
- €100 application fees (not refundable)
- A GMAT/GRE score is optional, not mandatory.
