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Continuous advances in technology, the threat of nimble market entrants, and the expectation of personalized customer experiences are forcing organizations in every industry to rethink the way they operate. Get ahead of this change by learning how you can drive initiatives that create more value for your users and help you and your company stay relevant.
In the Digital Transformation Program, you'll learn the skills you need to become the critical link between business functions and the technology that enables them. With courses spanning digital transformation strategy and technical application, you'll build the well-rounded skillset you need to lead and execute an informed technology-enabled business transformation.
Learn the in-demand skills you need to:
- Increase efficiency
- Create a digital culture
- Design better customer experiences
- Optimize your competitive advantage
- Utilize AI, crowdsourcing, data science, and more
Why should you choose Stanford Online?
Learn 100% online
Access content on your computer, phone, or tablet anywhere with an internet connection.
Progress at your own pace
Don't stress—all courses are self-paced so that you can fit learning around your busy life.
Learn from the best
We've brought together top Stanford faculty from across the university to create a well-rounded curriculum.
Earn a Stanford certificate
Complete eight courses to earn a Stanford Certificate of Achievement.
Featured Case Studies and Real-World Examples
Clearing the Way for Digital: Align Technology
Target and Walmart: Who is Better Prepared to Take on Amazon?
Examining Product Platform: FitBit and Intuit
Michelin Group: Embracing Culture While Adapting to Change
AI at Google and Adobe
Graduate or Professional?
Time Commitment
Achievement
Classmate Interactions
Cost
Graduate Certificate Courses
90–120 hours per course
Earn up to 18 units of academic credit that may contribute to a certificate or a degree
Frequent collaboration with other students taking courses at the same time
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Professional Certificate Courses
6–13 hours per course
Earn a certificate and, in some cases, professional education units
Potential to connect with other participants through private social media groups
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Featured Courses Included in the Program
Foundations of Digital Transformation
For your organization to grow and evolve in today’s tech-centered landscape, you must develop a company culture that promotes risk-taking, collaboration, and speed. In this course, you'll examine the key factors that enable an organization to take advantage of the opportunities that emerging technologies provide and to stay competitive as these technologies evolve.
The Industrialist’s Dilemma: How to Adapt to a Changing Landscape
This course uses case studies to explore how the world’s best startups are taking on the world’s biggest companies, and how those large companies are adapting to survive. Ensure that your company isn’t overtaken by an emerging startup by learning how to prepare for this shifting landscape.
Systems Leadership: Managing Uncertainty in the Digital Age
This course examines a new generation of leaders as they create transformational change in the world’s largest and oldest companies as well as in rising upstarts. Ensure that you’re poised to effectively lead your team or organization through digital transformation by mastering techniques of systems leadership.
Build a Product Platform Strategy to Accelerate Growth
Learn strategies for designing, monetizing, and launching a product platform. You’ll see how companies including LinkedIn, Nintendo, and Fitbit have adapted to digital transformation and successfully utilized their product platform to create value and realize revenue
Work Smarter with Crowdsourcing
Crowdsourcing enables you to collect large amounts of data, gather feedback, collaborate, and distribute work without expanding your current infrastructure. In this course, you’ll learn how you can utilize online communities and capture vast amounts of data to help solve your organization’s challenges.
Building an AI-Enabled Organization
See how leading professionals are utilizing AI in their companies to create superior customer experiences and increase operational efficiency. Through real-world examples, you’ll learn proven tips and tools to build an AI business strategy, optimized for your company’s size, industry, and data management capabilities.
Featured Instructors
Pamela Hinds
Program Director and Professor, Stanford University
Robert Siegel
Lecturer, Stanford University.
Melissa Valentine
Assistant Professor, Stanford University
Michael Bernstein
Associate Professor, Stanford University
What Our Learners Are Saying
"The courses and the content of the program at Stanford lines up well to the real-world challenges that I'm seeing every day." - Andrew Pelosi, MERGE
"I got the promotion. Currently, I am applying the knowledge, skills, and framework that I learned in the Stanford program to help Dell’s customers more quickly evolve to digitally transformed organizations. " - Ken Kajikawa, Dell Technologies
