Overview
| Next Intake |
January 2025 |
| Duration |
Part-time 2 years (4 semesters)
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| Application Timeline |
Applications for January 2025 admissions into the part-time MTech DL should be submitted before 15 October 2024. |
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| Info-session |
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| Enquiry |
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In today's world, almost every business is a digital business. In every industry, processes are being transformed by the pervasive use of digital technologies and rise of disruptive business models. To compete, businesses need to adapt and transform. Organisations need leaders who can think strategically to harness the digital change that create new opportunities for the business. This digital leadership programme prepares you to become effective leaders who can develop and lead strategies to transform businesses to thrive in the new digital economy
Key Takeaways:
- Develop a deeper understanding on the practice of digital business models and ecosystems.
- Gain the leadership skills to navigate complexity in leading a digital journey and drive breakthrough change for your organisation and generate new values for customers.
- Create effective roadmaps to bring about digital transformation in the business for competitive advantage, coupled with integrated digital talent strategies and culture.
- Enhance your ability and agility for strategic thinking, innovation and effective communication.
- Discover self-efficacy and personal stewardship in your digital leadership capacity.
It is about the job of the digital leader and how the role has become increasingly complex and multi-faceted as the innovative use of technology permeates through the organisation and drives new business models. New demands are mandated on today's leaders to reap the full benefit of digital opportunities, manage risks, complexity and uncertainties, and to drive cultural changes.
This MDL programme focuses on digital strategy and leadership and will equip you with the critical thinking, hard and soft skills to become an effective leader. It will accelerate your career and enhance your ability to take on greater roles and responsibilities in digital leadership. You will be equipped with the right processes and people capabilities to ride the digital wave and to thrive in the digital economy. Our goal is also to help organisations to develop its next generation of digital leaders.
You may also explore the alternative pathway via the Professional Certificate Programme in Digital Leadership, where you get to earn independent Professional Certificates at your own pace while paving your way towards a Master of Technology Degree. Find out more at: NUS-ISS Professional Certificate Programme in Digital Leadership.
Who is This Programme For?
This leadership programme is uniquely designed to nurture next-gen business and digital leaders who will drive and integrate customer, people and technology strategies to transform and accelerate their businesses in the digital economy.
We invite suitably qualified professionals to join this programme, who are:
- Senior executives with transformation, innovation, e-business, organisational excellence and/or change management responsibilities who wish to strengthen their leadership capabilities to pivot and bring about transformation in the business for competitive advantage;
- Senior executives who are transitioning into such roles in the near future or preparing to further their careers as digital leaders;
You are likely to be holding a position as Corporate or Business Strategist, IT Lead/E-Business Lead, Innovation Lead/Change Lead, SVP/VP/AVP, MD, ED, Director, DD/AD and equivalent corporate roles.
Scholarship:
- IMDA Post Graduate Scholarship:
The SG Digital Scholarship (Postgraduate) is an industry scholarship that empowers you to be a next-gen leader to shape the future of our digital economy and media ecosystem. Individuals pursuing postgraduate studies can choose to further your path in tech- or media-related areas such as Artificial Intelligence, Quamtum Technologies, Immersive Media, and Film Studies. Scholarship details and eligibility criteria can be found here.
Programme Curriculum
The Master of Technology in Digital Leadership programme builds on a comprehensive curriculum comprising 9 courses and a digital leadership capstone project. It is delivered through executive style teaching, guest speakers as well as highly interactive learning experience with peer learners from diverse industries. Evaluation will be through a combination of continuous assessments, class participation, case studies and capstone project with real-world application.
The programme is a 44-unit Master degree based on 3 key aspects of transformation: DEFINING Strategic Ambition, DRIVING Transformation and DEPLOYING for Lasting Impact. The curriculum strikes a balance between building deep leadership capabilities and functional skills and will be complemented by activities outside the classroom to reinforce learning.
DEFINING Strategic Ambition
Courses:
"Digital Organisation Model" enables participants to acquire skill set to analyse, evaluate the different digital organisation models and the implementation considerations for such models. Some topics covered include SWOT analysis on leveraging Industry 4.0 and Smart Nation trends and opportunities, evaluation of digital model archetypes, building blocks of digital organisation, applying technology innovation with business innovations etc.
“Strategic Thinking & Digital Foresight” enables participants to acquire skill set for strategic thinking and robust foresight that enable leaders to identify and implement digital transformation for social change. Some topics covered include application of strategy framework for digital transformation, sense-making techniques, trends, horizon scanning & market driver analysis for scenario planning & strategy development, building digital capacity and more.
“Digital Business Strategy” enables participants to acquire skill set for creating digital business strategy and developing the digital product/service portfolio to create and transform the business. Some topics covered include frameworks and strategies for creating a digital business, developing the digital product/ service portfolio & transformation roadmap, valuing and justifying business case for digitalisation, leadership skills to collaborate with key stakeholders to drive and evolve the digital strategy and more.
DRIVING Transformation
Courses:
“Innovation by Design” enables participants to acquire skill set to reimagine organisation innovation and transform business with innovative product and services through strategies such as design thinking and adaptation of digital technologies. Some topics covered include applying design approaches such as customer-centricity, creative ideation and rapid experimentation to transform customer experience, leadership roles to foster organisation innovation culture, leveraging on open innovation ecosystem and more.
“Mastering Digital Architecture” enables participants to acquire skill set to evolve enterprise IT architecture in the context of digital transformation and to design the digital architecture that is flexible, scalable and adaptable to changes that enable business to be disruptive and innovative. Some topics covered include analysing architectural trends for digital transformation, design and implementation considerations for a digital architecture to support new business models and emergent technologies, Platform architecture, best practices and governance of digital architecture and more.
“Digital Agility & Change Leadership” enables participants to acquire skill set to lead their organisation with abilities to sense, response and adapt quickly to market changes and evolving customer needs in a complex and volatile digital business environment today. Some topics covered include practices of agile leadership style, implementation of agile practices, adopting digital first mind-set and developing cohesive change leadership strategies to increase organisation's agility and digital quotient.
“Talent & Leadership Pathways” enables participants to acquire skill set to lead high-performing digital workforce, drive change and interact strategically across boundaries with multiple stakeholders in the complex business environment, through developing leadership quality such as self-awareness, strategic thinking, and influencing skills. Some topics covered include creating responsive organisation, developing competencies of the digital leader, harnessing talent from everywhere and the learning pathways and development for future-ready digital workforce and more.
DEPLOYING for Lasting Impact
Courses:
“Managing Digitalisation Complexity” enables participants to acquire skill set to deal with volatility, uncertainty, complexity, ambiguity (VUCA) and rapid changes to sustain competitive advantage in a complex digital economy. Some topics covered include system thinking, complex project management, scaling enterprise product management, strategies for crisis management, driving process and operational excellence, leading networked organisations, managing complexity in global workforce and more.
“Digital Governance” enables participants to acquire skill set to develop digital governance framework for establishing accountability, key roles and decision-making authority for an organization’s digital strategy that are aligned to corporate governance, policies and management structure. Some topics covered include evolving traditional IT governance, risk and compliance model to meet requirements of digital business, collaborating with senior management and key stakeholders, establishing linkages between digital and broader corporate governance practices to ensure effective risk and performance management and more.
Key highlight of this programme is the 11-month Digital Leadership Capstone project that brings together all the disciplines that participants have encountered in the programme. Participants reflect, apply and synthesise the knowledge, skills and techniques that they have learnt in class and apply to a real-life organisation. They will integrate what they have learnt with how they, as the Digital Leader, will have to perform digital business transformation and solve real-world problems for a target organisation. Participants will work in groups and are mentored by industry advisors to deliver the capstone project.
“We were very impressed with the dedication of the MDL students and the great outcome of the MDL Capstone Project. The results were far beyond our expectations! The MDL programme is innovative and produces visionary graduates capable of pushing boundaries and challenging established norms.”
Ms Erle Kristin Wagle, Project Sponsor - Kongsberg Digital
Fees
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Singapore Citizens / Singapore Permanent Residents
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International Students
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Full Tuition Fees
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S$50,000.00
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S$50,000.00
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| NUS-ISS Subsidy |
S$5,000.00 |
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| Nett Tuition Fees |
S$45,000.00 |
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9% GST on
Nett Tuition Fees |
S$4,050.00 |
S$4,500.00 |
*Total Fees
payable with GST |
S$49,050.00 |
S$54,500.00 |
Note:
- The miscellaneous fees payable are set out here.
- If you are an NUS Alumni, NUS will extend you a 20% subsidy of the Tuition Fee and no other subsidy shall apply concurrently.
- With effect from 1 January 2024, individuals using credit/debit card and eWallet to make payment via NUSFastPay will have to pay a 1% processing fee.
Fees for existing students
There is no change in fees and subsidies.
Admission & Application
Applicants must possess the following pre-requisites:
- A bachelor’s degree from an accredited institution preferably in Science, Engineering, Computing, Business or a related discipline and a grade point average of at least B
- A minimum of 5 years of full-time relevant work experience after first degree
- Demonstrate proficiency in the English language (written and spoken)
- Received a favourable assessment at admissions interview conducted by NUS-ISS.
- Admission is on a competitive basis and preference will be given to applicants with related job experiences
English Language Proficiency
- If your native tongue and medium of university instruction is not in English, please submit your TOEFL (Test of English as a Foreign Language) or IELTS (International English Language Testing System) score as evidence of your proficiency in English.
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TOEFL
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Paper-based test (580)
Computer-based test (237)
Internet-based test (85)
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IELTS
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Result of 6.0
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- Institution code of NUS-ISS for TOEFL is 2432
- TOEFL and IELTS are only valid for five (5) years respectively after the test and the validity should not expire before the beginning of the application period for the coursework programme.
All applicants are required to submit an online application for our graduate coursework programme.
Step 1: You can refer to our detailed step-by-step guide on how to complete the online application.
Step 2: It will take you about 30 minutes or more to complete your application. You will need the softcopies of the supporting documents for your online application. Click here for the supporting documents to be uploaded and additional information required.
Step 3: You can proceed to apply online. Remember to upload all the required supporting documents under the “Documents Upload” section before you do the online submission. You can refer to our FAQ.
Step 4: Please ensure you submit your online application(s) and make online payment for the application fee (non-refundable) of S$50.00 per application (exclude prevailing GST).
Important:
- Applications that are incomplete, including missing supporting document(s), will not be processed.
- Applicants who are found to have given inaccurate or false information will be required to withdraw from the programme.
- All payments for application fee are non-refundable.
- Please note that the University has not engaged any external agencies to undertake student recruitment on its behalf. Candidates interested in our graduate programmes are advised to apply directly to the University and not through any agents. Candidates who apply through agents will not have any added advantage in gaining admission and the University reserves the right to reject such applications without giving reasons.
Career Pathways
Find your fit with new opened doors
Our Master of Technology in Digital Leadership programme (MDL) focus on digital strategy and leadership. Aimed at seasoned professionals with the ambition to shape the future, you will get a solid grounding in digital business models, how tech-based innovations drive and transform a business. It will equip you to become a leader in business-technology strategy and digital transformation. You will acquire the necessary critical thinking, process and people skills to lead an organisation to thrive and harness the digital economy.
Career Prospects
- Chief Technology Officer
- Chief Information Officer
- Chief Digital Officer
- Chief Transformation Officer
- Digital Transformation Director
- Business Transformation Director
- E-Business Director
- IT Director
- Strategic Digital Planning Director
- Program Director
- Digital Marketing Director
Our Participants across Diverse Industries
