DI2X Competence Boost 1

Competence Boost 1 is aimed at executive leadership teams within a single organization or across multiple organizations—such as industry associations, trade unions, or networks—seeking to enhance their ability to lead their organizations through digital transformation.

The program is particularly relevant for leaders with strategic responsibility for development and innovation, who want a shared language and strengthened understanding of digital maturity, and who aim to implement concrete initiatives to improve their organization’s digital capacity and execution power.

• Establish a shared language and understanding of digital maturity and transformation

• Understand and apply the DI2X frameworks in their own organization

• Identify and prioritize strategic focus areas for digital development

• Strengthen collaboration and communication within the executive team

• Analyze their organization's digital maturity and organizational capabilities and use the insights to define shared areas of focus

• See the interconnections between strategy, technology, organization, and leadership in digital transformation

• Develop ambitions and goals for future digital maturity and transformation—both short- and long-term—based on the organization’s context

Individual digital work with theory, podcasts, videos, and reflection exercises

Local group work based on a concrete challenge

A joint day—either physical or digital—with expert presentations, examples, and structured dialogue, led by experienced facilitators

Local work within the leadership team, reflecting on and addressing the module’s topic. Participants define their level of ambition and potential strategic initiatives

Upon completion, the executive leadership team will share a common understanding of digital transformation and gain increased insight into how their organization can develop its digital maturity. Participants will have strengthened both individual and collective competencies, acquired a shared vocabulary to guide further work, and learned how technology, organization, strategy, and leadership are connected in practice.

Through reflection, professional input, and concrete analyses, the leadership team will be able to identify its own ambitions and further develop strategic focus areas—tailored to its specific context and goals.

The program is recommended to be carried out across four modules, each with a duration of approximately three months. The structure can be adapted to the needs of each organization in terms of scope, pace, and mode of delivery. Sessions can be held both digitally and in person, and are designed to encourage active participation, reflection, and the sharing of experiences.

If you take the program with DI2X Norway, you will meet Eirin Folde, Managing Director of DI2X Norway, with extensive experience in leadership and competence development based on the DI2X frameworks.

If you take the program with DI2X Denmark, you will meet Pernille Kræmmergaard, Ph.D., the researcher behind the DI2X frameworks, and Ania Reinwald, Ph.D., who has contributed to the development of the frameworks and has extensive experience teaching them.

The program concludes with each leadership team delivering a final summary, concretizing their own goals for further work—both short- and long-term. After this, all participants are invited to a one-hour digital closing session with experience sharing and reflection. A DI2X diploma is issued as documentation of successful completion of Competence Boost 1.

After completing the program, participants will be able to:

• Understand and establish a shared language for digital maturity and transformation, based on the DI2X frameworks

• Demonstrate insight into the Digital Maturity framework, including the six generations and their practical characteristics

• Demonstrate insight into the Organizational Capabilities framework, including the 4x4 capabilities and their role in transformation and digital development

• Understand how the DI2X frameworks interrelate and how they can be used to analyze and prioritize areas of focus

• Reflect on how insights from the frameworks can support strategic choices and direction within your leadership team

• Assess what is required to advance your organization’s digital maturity and transformation—both individually and collectively

This module works with the importance of the digital and technological development for the organization's future basis of existence, its relationships with customers / citizens and partners. Participants are introduced to the development and the strategic implications as well as the opportunities to lead the development rather than be controlled by it. It is discussed both in the individual management team and across the teams how the development should be reflected strategically in their own organization.

This module works on how the organization's current and future possibilities depend on the choices made, or the once being made, about technologies, IT platforms, and data management. The participants get among other things an understanding of IT architecture and infrastructure and is thus equipped to be able to assess the connection between strategic ambitions and decisions about technology, IT, and data. Further, the specific contexts in one's own organization are discussed in the management teams and across.

This module works with the importance of organizing the work, the relationship with and frames for the employees, so that they are constantly harmonized with the digital visions and ambitions, and the expectations from and to the employees. Participants gain insight into how strategic ambitions and decisions about technology, IT, and data require change for the organization and employees, including, among other things, the need for developing a digital mindset at different levels, innovative practice, and agile mindset and methods.

This module works with the competencies that the managers themselves, in addition to general management competencies, must master in an increasingly digital and technological environment with the associated diversity of realities and uncertainty. Participants are introduced to, and discuss, what it takes of themselves and their leadership to lead the organization's digital transformation. Further, the participants will share experiences and discuss approaches to leading in relation to the many new bottom lines and making the transformation meaningful for the employees and other stakeholders.

1) Preparation: Common language and understanding

• Individual work with theory and cases (for which a digital learning platform is provided)
• Local discussions in each management group around a given challenge that aims to inspire and challenge

2) Gathering: Current starting point

• Full day program for all participating management groups, where there is an alternation between conceptual presentations, cases, and facilitated dialogue and knowledge sharing
• Mapping and working with the starting point of one's own organization, including barriers and opportunities

3) Follow-up: Further efforts

• Work in the local management group with the important learning points within the module
• The management group determine their own level of ambition and discuss initiatives in the short and long term in relation to the module's theme

The division into these steps is intended to help the participants to continuously link the conceptual content to the work in their own organization and practice.

The participants have access to a learning platform with videos, podcasts, literature, exercises, etc. Here it is also possible to follow their own progression and continuously access the material from the gatherings.

Before and during the program, the DI2X tools are used mapping the participants own organization's digital maturity and capabilities for digital transformation. The individual test-results are anonymous, but the aggregated anonymized results will be included and discussed during the program.