Carnegie Mellon University

Architecture for Digital Transformation

Instructor CEU Units # of Lectures Hours per Week
Yoshimasa Masuda 4.8 12 8-10

Course Objectives

This 12-week online professional executive education course provides concepts and methods to proceed with Digital IT strategy and process digital transformation by using digital enterprise architecture (DEA) – the Adaptive Integrated Digital Architecture Framework (AIDAF).  The course is taught via the University’s online learning environment and biweekly (or weekly) class-wide web conferences or phone calls. The workload is 6-8 hours per week and a course completion certificate is awarded by Carnegie Mellon University. Upon course completion participants will:

  • Understand how to describe Digital IT Strategy and depict Digital IT Architecture Strategy for Digital Transformation.
  • Understand Digital IT Architecture such as Cloud, Big Data, Artificial Intelligence (AI) and Internet of Things (IoT), etc.
  • Understand how to identify the fundamental concepts of solutions for the key issues of Digital Transformation.
  • Discuss and analyze problems and their factors in Digital Transformation and Enterprise Architecture, covering Business Architecture, Application Architecture, Data Architecture, and Technology Architecture.
  • Understand how to apply the Strategic Digital Enterprise Architecture Framework and the related Architecture Assessment process with sound Global Communications on Digital Platforms collaboratively in the Architecture Board.
  • Understand how to identify risks in Digital IT projects, Digital IT systems and manage the risks in Digital IT projects for Digital Transformation.
  • Understand how to design and build a practical Digital Enterprise Architecture process with Digital Platforms for Digital Transformation and demonstrate DEA contributions to organizational value with Digital IT Strategy.

Prerequisite

None

Required Textbook

Enterprise Architecture for Global Companies in a Digital IT Era, 1st edition by Yoshimasa Masuda, Murli Viswanathan; ISBN 978-981-13-1083-6

An Introduction to Holistic Enterprise Architecture, 4th edition by Scott Bernard; ISBN-13: 978-1728358055

(As optional) Architecting the Digital Transformation, by Editors: Alfred Zimmermann, Rainer Schmidt, Lakhmi C Jain. (Eds.): ISBN 978-3-030-49639-5

 

Topics

Lecture 1:      Overview of EA and Digital Transformation Concepts
Lecture 2:      Digital IT Architecture and EA Fundamental
Lecture 3:      Digital IT Strategies and EA Scalability
Lecture 4:      Problems and Solutions for Digital Transformation
Lecture 5:      Strategic Architecture Framework
Lecture 6:      Architecture Assessment for Digital Transformation
Lecture 7:      Social Collaboration on Digital Platform in Architecture Board
Lecture 8:      Global Communications on platforms for Digital Transformation
Lecture 9:      Risk Management for Digital Transformation
Lecture 10:    EA process for Digital Transformation
Lecture 11:    Using DEA to start up and enhance Digital Platforms
Lecture 12:    Using DEA to Increase Organizational/Social Value with Digital IT Strategy