Digital Innovation and Management IT University of Copenhagen

Overview

The programme in Digital Innovation and Management from IT University of Copenhagen has a flexible structure leaving ample room for you to shape your own unique profile. It contains mandatory courses, electives and a specialisation of your choice.

As a student of Digital Innovation & Management, you want to make a difference in contemporary IT-development and digital innovation. You are interested in digitalisation as a complex social and technical phenomenon, which in order to do it well, requires theoretical sophistication and innovation, methodological ingenuity, and practical engagement. 

You would like to work critically and constructively with organisational, societal or business challenges and opportunities, which sometimes can be addressed by standard approaches, but more than often requires unorthodox solutions.

Group work is central to the programme, so you should be motivated to collaborate with your fellow students.

Career

Digital Innovation & Management offers a global perspective on IT and prepares you well for an international career in the private or public sector.

With an MSc in Digital Innovation & Management you can become a liaison between business and IT with the ability to speak both languages and act as boundary spanners between different communities of practice. You will know about the affordances of state-of-the-art IT as well as the business needs of different organisations. Furthermore, as graduate from Digital Innovations & Management you will know how to facilitate and make decisions that are based on data analysis and interpretation. You will also be able to decompose the complexity of modern organisations, analyse wicked problems, and propose solutions to social and technical challenges.

Information technology is everywhere. Therefore, you will be an asset for a wide array of employers in the private as well as the public sector. You should be ready to shape your career in a changing professional environment.

The job titles listed below are examples of positions and tasks, you can be qualified for, some depending on your area of specialisation on the programme:

• Consultant

• Business Analyst

• Business Intelligence Specialist

• Chief Information Officer

• Enterprise Architect

• Functional Manager (e.g. Finance, Marketing)

• Innovation Manager

• IT Project Manager

• Process Manager/Owner

• Product/Service Manager

• R&D Manager

• Solution Architect