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BUSN12004 - Digital Transformation

General Information

Unit Synopsis

This unit will introduce you to Digital Transformation (DT) and how organisations are embracing it to automate their manufacturing or business processes to stay profitable and competitive in the market. At present DT is rapidly taking place in almost all business sectors in the world such as universities, healthcare, mining, agriculture, education, supply chain. While the businesses are embracing automation to reap the economic benefits from it, this unit will help you to understand the DT journey covering digitization, digitalization, and digital transformation and what it involves. While studying this unit you will have the opportunity to apply your knowledge about DT to help transform businesses via working on various business cases. Furthermore, this unit will also introduce the social and ethical considerations involved with digital transformation initiatives.

Details

Level Undergraduate
Unit Level 2
Credit Points 6
Student Contribution Band SCA Band 4
Fraction of Full-Time Student Load 0.125
Pre-requisites or Co-requisites There are no pre-requisites for the unit.

Important note: Students enrolled in a subsequent unit who failed their pre-requisite unit, should drop the subsequent unit before the census date or within 10 working days of Fail grade notification. Students who do not drop the unit in this timeframe cannot later drop the unit without academic and financial liability. See details in the Assessment Policy and Procedure (Higher Education Coursework).

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Residential School No Residential School

Unit Availabilities from Term 2 - 2024

There are no availabilities for this unit on or after Term 2 - 2024

Attendance Requirements

All on-campus students are expected to attend scheduled classes – in some units, these classes are identified as a mandatory (pass/fail) component and attendance is compulsory. International students, on a student visa, must maintain a full time study load and meet both attendance and academic progress requirements in each study period (satisfactory attendance for International students is defined as maintaining at least an 80% attendance record).

Assessment Overview

Recommended Student Time Commitment

Each 6-credit Undergraduate unit at CQUniversity requires an overall time commitment of an average of 12.5 hours of study per week, making a total of 150 hours for the unit.

Assessment Tasks

Assessment Task Weighting
1. Written Assessment 30%
2. Group Work 50%
3. Presentation 20%

This is a graded unit: your overall grade will be calculated from the marks or grades for each assessment task, based on the relative weightings shown in the table above. You must obtain an overall mark for the unit of at least 50%, or an overall grade of ‘pass’ in order to pass the unit. If any ‘pass/fail’ tasks are shown in the table above they must also be completed successfully (‘pass’ grade). You must also meet any minimum mark requirements specified for a particular assessment task, as detailed in the ‘assessment task’ section (note that in some instances, the minimum mark for a task may be greater than 50%).

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Unit learning Outcomes

On successful completion of this unit, you will be able to:

  1. Explain key concepts of Digitization, Digitalization, and Digital Transformation and why and how industries automate their processes through digital transformation
  2. Develop digital strategy and a digital transformation plan
  3. Explain social and ethical consideration of digital transformation

The learning outcomes of this unit is mapped with the Skills For Information Age (SFIA) framework. The framework widely adapted by public and private institutions around the world. It defines the skills and competencies required by business and technology professionals working in digital technologies and/or solutions that involves a mix of technical and non-technical skills.

This unit encompasses following three workplace skillsets as defined by SFIA 8:

  1. Requirements definition and management (REQM)
  2. Business modelling (BSMO)
  3. Research (RSCH)

Alignment of Assessment Tasks to Learning Outcomes
Assessment Tasks Learning Outcomes
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1 - Written Assessment •
2 - Group Work •
3 - Presentation •
Alignment of Graduate Attributes to Learning Outcomes
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• Intermediate Level
• Graduate Level
Graduate Attributes Learning Outcomes
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1 - Communication • • •
2 - Problem Solving • •
3 - Critical Thinking •
4 - Information Literacy • • •
5 - Team Work •
6 - Information Technology Competence •
7 - Cross Cultural Competence •
8 - Ethical practice •
9 - Social Innovation •
Alignment of Assessment Tasks to Graduate Attributes
• Introductory Level
• Intermediate Level
• Graduate Level
Assessment Tasks Graduate Attributes
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