Digital Transformation Management

DTM is the first two-year master degree in Europe completely devoted to Digital Transformation. The degree program provisioned by the Department of Computer Science and Engineering in close collaboration with the Department of Management. This collaboration has enabled us to create an international faculty consisting of academics from the two areas and professionals specialized in digital transformation.

Our goal is to create professionals with practical design and programming skills in the most innovative subjects of information technology combined with knowledge in the business area to apply them successfully. To achieve this goal, we have selected the most innovative topics in the two areas; much space has been given in the study plan to laboratories and case studies. This goes far beyond the theoretical and introductory knowledge that is acquirable in a semester-long postgraduate master's program.

Graduates in DTM can find positions in companies in every production sectors and are particularly sought after by strategic and IT consulting companies. DTM works in collaboration with a large group of national and international level companies that support the course of study and testify to the market's interest in our graduates.

The study plan is composed by a balanced mix of the most innovative topics in computer science and management.

The course is organized on three temporal phases.

• Ist semester: we are aware the admitted students will have heterogeneous backgrounds, thus the first semester is devoted to fill the gaps. In principle, during the first semester, students with a management background will study computer science topics only, while students with a computer science background will study management topics only. Programming, mananging data and network systems, as well as finance, economics and management must become a common knowledge.
• IInd and IIIrdsemesters: are devoted to core courses that are mandatory for all the students that will discover the techniques and technologies that drive DT: cybersecurity, artificial intelligence, Entrepreneurship and innovation management are some examples.
• IVth semester: is devoted to elective courses that specialize in a specific areas such as data science, IoT, fintech and digital marketing. The degree also includes group works on industrial challenges and hackathons. Finally, all the students must carry out an internship in a company to graduate.

The perfect candidate is a bachelor's degree holder in computer science, economics, and statistics who wants to deepen what he or she studied in the three-year course and has an open mind toward all the digital transformation related disciplines

• What is the difference between a DTM graduate and a computer engineering or Data Science graduate?
  • Computer engineers and data scientists are purely technical figures. In particular, data scientists have very vertical skills limited to data analysis and machine learning. DTM graduates combine technical skills with managerial ones which propels them into more ambitious career growth paths. To make space to business topics some pretty engineering topics are covered in a lighter way while the most innovative topics (e.g., cybersecurity, big data, machine learning) remain under the spot.
• Are there courses in computer programming and computer systems design?
  • Yes, all the courses in the computer science area includes programming and design laboratories (normally for 50% of the hours). The most used programming language is Python that is used by most of the courses.
• What does an international course entail?
  • All DTM courses are in English and the faculty includes many international professors. 20 positions out of 65 are reserved to international students. Enrolling to an international degree goes far beyond having classes in English, it provides you an international experience and the possibility of sharing with students with other life experiences cultures and goals.

The intake process consists in a two-step evaluation: 

1. Evaluation of the candidate's curriculum studiorum; 
2. Evaluation of the resume and interview. 

Candidates need to be deemed eligible in the first step to access the interview. 

February 1st 2023 from 10.00 AM to 5.00 PM (CET) - Online Event

Morning session: 

11.30 AM-12.00 PM (CET): Degree Programme presentation (Prof. Matteo Golfarelli - Degree Programme Director)

12.00 PM-1.00 PM (CET): Q&A session (Dott. Alessandra Iosi - Admin. Programme Coordinator)

12.30 PM- 1.30 PM (CET): Student Cafè (current 1st and 2nd year DTM students)

Afternoon session:

3.00 PM -3.30 PM (CET): Degree Programme presentation (Prof. Matteo Golfarelli - Degree Programme Director)

3.30-4.30 PM (CET): Q&A session (Dott. Alessandra Iosi - Admin Programme Coordinator)

4.00 PM- 5 PM (CET): Student Cafè (current 1st and 2nd year DTM students)