DB-FPX8720 picks up where DB-FPX8710 left off and narrows the lens to strategic digital transformation specifically. You investigate frameworks and tools for leading in digital business environments, evaluate how organizations respond to digital disruption, and create abbreviated proposals grounded in real digital ecosystem problems. The course also introduces research techniques relevant to project planning for digital change management. This guide covers the assessments and where academic support for DB-FPX8720 fits.
Course Overview
Strategic Digital Transformation asks you to analyze the literature within the strategic concepts surrounding digital transformation. You investigate unique frameworks and tools proven to assist in creating a strategic, competitive plan for successfully leading in the digital business marketplace. You also create abbreviated proposals based on problems found within a variety of digital ecosystems to conceptualize valid and meaningful project ideas, and identify how research techniques fit into project planning and managing for digital change. The prerequisite is DB-FPX8710.
Key Assessments
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1Digital Transformation Literature Analysis
Evaluate the positive and negative aspects of how businesses respond to digital transformation, outline how companies adapt to business problems in the digital age, and evaluate competitive strategies used to gain advantage in a digitized world using established models, theories, and practices.
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2Harvard Business Review Article Proposal
Create an abbreviated HBR-style article proposal addressing a digital transformation problem, including the central message, the importance of the proposed solution, and its application to a current business structure or digital ecosystem.
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3Digital Ecosystem Project Development
Develop a project concept that applies digital transformation leadership strategies to a real organizational challenge, integrating research techniques into your project planning approach for managing digital change.
How We Help With DB-FPX8720
- Building a literature analysis grounded in recognized digital transformation frameworks (Westerman, Rogers, leading/lagging indicators)
- Structuring the HBR article proposal with a clear central argument tied to an evidenced digital ecosystem problem
- Selecting a digital transformation case with enough depth and data accessibility for a DBA-level project
- Integrating research methodology considerations into project planning for digital change management
- APA 7 formatting and doctoral-level scholarly source integration throughout
Common Challenges in This Course
The HBR article proposal trips up many students because the format demands a practitioner-facing argument, not the academic voice used elsewhere in the DBA. You need to translate scholarly evidence into a clear, action-oriented narrative. On the literature analysis, a frequent mistake is treating "digital transformation" as a monolithic concept rather than distinguishing between specific frameworks (platform strategy, digital maturity models, disruptive innovation). The project development assessment requires realistic scope, and students who pick overly broad topics like "digital transformation in healthcare" struggle to demonstrate feasibility.
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DB-FPX8720 FAQ
DB-FPX8710 (Strategy and Innovation: Theorizing, Crafting, Executing). The gap-in-practice work from that course feeds directly into the digital transformation focus here.
It's an abbreviated proposal, not a full article. The rubric evaluates your ability to frame a scholarly argument in a practitioner-accessible format, not produce a submission-ready manuscript.
Yes, and it's often strategic to do so since the digital transformation lens refines your earlier gap-in-practice work into a more specific project direction.
Most rubrics accept any recognized framework (Westerman's digital maturity model, Rogers' digital transformation playbook, Christensen's disruption theory) as long as it's applied consistently with evidence.
The project ideas developed here carry forward into DB-FPX8740 (topic development) and DB-FPX8750 (literature review), where they become your formal doctoral project proposal.