Navigating Digital Disruption

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Program Experience

Build the strategic foundations needed to lead in an environment of continuous digital change. By the end of the course, you will be able to:

Understand how disruption works and why the same technology shift plays out differently across industries and organizations
Assess whether your organization is positioned to respond by examining the leadership, structural, and cultural conditions that shape transformation outcomes
Navigate the real costs and trade-offs of transformation, including cannibalization risks, resource tensions, and timing decisions
Choose the right innovation approach by comparing sustaining and disruptive strategies and recommending the best fit for your situation
Evaluate platform and ecosystem opportunities — when platform models outperform traditional product approaches, how network effects drive growth, and how monetization models evolve
Build your own leadership approach to transformation that connects strategic thinking, organizational awareness, and a commitment to continuous learning

Experience and Impact

Delivered fully online and self-paced, this course features three in-depth modules (approximately two to three hours each). A blend of short-form video lectures, guided workbook reflections, applied activities, and optional challenge exercises will help you immediately connect frameworks to your own industry and organization.

You will go beyond concepts and put ideas into practice. Specifically, this course will equip you to:

Diagnose emerging disruption signals and organizational response patterns in your own context
Make decisions under uncertainty — including how to navigate culture, resistance, and resource constraints
Build a platform or ecosystem plan with network effects, openness choices, and monetization logic
Complete a capstone project you can bring back to work: a 90-Day Transformation Leadership Plan or a Platform Pivot Toolkit

By the end, you won’t just understand disruption differently — you will have practical tools and a portfolio of your own work you can use right away.

Certificate Pathway

This is the first of four courses that comprise Wharton Online’s Digital Strategy in the Era of AI Certificate. The certificate is earned by completing all four:

Course 1: Navigating Digital Disruption
Course 2: Leading the Digital Organization
Course 3: AI Strategy and Decision Making
Course 4: Advancing Digital Innovation

Each course may be taken individually, but together they form a comprehensive progression — from diagnosing disruption and leading organizational transformation, to building AI capabilities and judgment, to advancing digital initiatives with strategic discipline.

Completing all four courses not only deepens your transformation capabilities; it also earns you the Digital Strategy in the Era of AI Certificate, recognizing your ability to lead digital and AI-driven change with strategic confidence.

Tuition

The tuition for this course is $1,350. You can also enroll in the full four-course Digital Strategy in the Era of AI Certificate at a bundled rate, gaining access to the entire pathway and the recognized Wharton credential.

Attend as a Team. Amplify the Impact.

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What Do I Earn?

CEU Credits

To receive CEUs for your Wharton Online course(s), you must complete all coursework and pass all assessments in a CEU-eligible program of study with a score of 70 percent or above.

CEUs are included with every Wharton Online course. Upon successful course completion, learners automatically earn at least one CEU, which is noted in the digital credentials.

Credentialing

Upon successfully completing your course, you will receive a digital badge recognizing your achievement. The badge is a verified, shareable credential that showcases your dedication and newly acquired skills.

You can easily share your digital badge on LinkedIn, your personal website, digital resume, or email signature — making it simple for employers, peers, and your professional network to see what you’ve accomplished.

Who Should Attend

This course is designed for professionals who need to make sense of digital disruption and translate that understanding into action, including:

Strategy and corporate development leaders who need sharper frameworks for diagnosing disruption and recommending transformation paths
Transformation and program leaders responsible for making digital initiatives work inside real organizations
Product, platform, and growth leaders evaluating ecosystem strategies and platform business models
Operations and general management leaders accountable for translating strategy into execution under constraint
Technology-adjacent leaders in IT, data, analytics, or innovation shaping how their organizations respond to change

Group Enrollment

To further leverage the value and impact of this program, we encourage companies to send cross-functional teams of executives to Wharton. We offer group-enrollment benefits to companies sending four or more participants.

Faculty

Rahul Kapoor, PhDSee Faculty Bio

David W. Hauck Professor; Professor of Management, The Wharton School

Research Interests: Innovation, technology management and strategy, industry evolution, firm boundaries, business ecosystems