The final week of the MBA programme in St.Gallen comprises a final compulsory 4 day module: Corporate Transformation. The module provides a discussion and ideas platform based on integrative management techniques allowing soon-to-be graduates to involve concepts and techniques that have been introduced across the MBA and discuss their practical implication during the MBA Project.

Corporate Transformation

The globalization of the world leads to an increasingly faster pace in business transformation. Enterprises have to adapt faster and even faster to the environmental changes in a global economy to remain competitive and to make sure they stay in business. In today's information age this does not only mean to adapt business strategy and business processes but also to adapt information systems to the new circumstances. The fast adaptation trough large scale corporate transformation projects that change strategy, business processes and information systems is critical to ensure competitiveness for tomorrow. 

Course Structure

The course treats the main challenges of business transformation and the alignment of corporate development and IT activities. It presents a holistic approach to business transformation projects by introducing an integrated model dealing with three main design areas "strategy", "processes" and "information systems" and applying this model to various case studies.

The course is subdivided into following modules:

• Corporate development - introduction and motivation,
• Parallelization of corporate development and complexity reduction,
• Planning process and project portfolio management in corporate development,
• Management of large scale projects - integration of strategy, processes and information systems
• Quality management in large scale projects,
• Project management in large scale projects,
• Change management within large scale projects.

Learning Goals

The objective of the course is to understand the main challenges of corporate transformation and to demonstrate the application of a holistic project procedure model for corporate transformation projects with special emphasis on the alignment of business and IT.