Program Overview

Program Overview

The Master's program in Digital Business and Innovation is designed to provide students with a thorough understanding of how organizations can effectively use digital technologies to innovate their business processes, products, services, and business models. The program builds on the core domains of information systems and innovation management, addressing the strategic value of information systems for current business and the specific nature of digital innovation processes.

Program Description

The program is offered in English and is designed to challenge students to develop their own innovation idea and master the required skills and creative confidence. In the domain of digital transformation, which concerns the implications of digital innovations for organizations and how people work, a mandatory course is offered on the implications of digital technologies in day-to-day work and organizing practices. Electives broaden and deepen the scope of the program and prepare students for a specific working environment. The program is complemented by an academic core that contains research design and methods, ethics, and the master thesis.

Program Structure

The program consists of the following components:

• Core courses:
  • Thesis (15 EC)
  • Digital Business and Information Systems (6 EC)
  • Management of Digital Innovation (6 EC)
  • Working and Organizing in a Digital Age (6 EC)
  • Ethics in a Digital World (3 EC)
  • Research Design and Methods (6 EC)
• Electives 1: Choose 1 of 3 courses
  • Digital Marketing and Technology (6 EC)
  • Digital Transformation and Business Process Management (6 EC)
  • Management of Sustainable Innovation (6 EC)
• Electives 2: Choose 1 of 2 courses
  • Artificial Intelligence Lab (6 EC)
  • Digital Innovation Lab (6 EC)
• Electives 3: Choose 1 of 2 courses
  • Digital Consultancy Project (6 EC)
  • Digital Entrepreneurship Project (6 EC)
• Additional Internship: Master's Internship (0 EC)

Program Details

• Level: Master
• Language: English
• Duration: 1 year
• Form: Full Time
• Credits: 60 EC
• Faculty: School of Business and Economics

Transitional Arrangements

In case of curriculum changes, a transitional arrangement applies to higher year students who still have to take courses from the old curriculum. The transitional regulations are stated on the website as well as in the Teaching and Examination Regulations (OER).