Disruptive Technologies in the Digital Economy, Week 2 – Technology and Organisations

Oh my God talk about throwing people into the deep end here. Even though most of it was fine and most of it made sense, there were some bits this week that were absolute murder for anyone who is coming back to academia after decades. Weekly Learning Objects By the end of this week you will be able to: Understand the basic levels and principles of Business Process Re-engineering and their significance. Differentiate between traditional organisations and digital natives in how IT-orientation occurs. Reflect on the broader fundamental transition from human decisions to automated decisions. Explore the dynamics of the digital economy through the co-evolution between physical and social technologies. Honestly, I'm not sure I actually got any of that from this week, but I did get a lot of stuff that was good to know. Digital Transformation and IT Organisational TransformationThe big thing, really, in all the reading, was the difference between Digital Transformation and IT Organisational…