Our Program

The Digital Transformation and Innovation program is a multi-faculty collaboration between the Telfer School of Management, the Faculty of Arts, and the Faculty of Engineering to train highly qualified professionals to create, manage and research the profound change to our world that is happening as a result of electronic digital technology. At its heart, the technology enables the collection and communication of huge amounts of data that transforms how business and society work. It also creates a new online environment where the experience of business and social interactions by individuals is being reinvented. Innovation is an important aspect of the program to emphasize the re-invention and creative design of user experiences in business and social interactions.

Digital Transformation and Innovation is a multidisciplinary graduate program with a strong commitment to industry relevance as well as business and social implications of the technology. In the program, students will:

1. Develop and demonstrate the ability to communicate with and integrate multi-disciplinary expertise related to digital transformation and innovation.
2. Develop and demonstrate the ability to lead, design and create applications of digital transformation and innovation using current and emerging tools, techniques and technology.
3. Develop skills in management, technology, communications, information architecture, data science, UX design, and gender / cultural awareness and demonstrate the ability to apply them in practice.
4. Students will develop and demonstrate the ability to assess, test and research digital transformation and innovation with sensitivity and awareness around ethics, equity, diversity, business and social impact.

Career Paths for DTI Graduates
Throughout the researches and the courses of the program, students gain practical skills using a broad range of business software, as well as an applied foundation in both business and technology to ensure they can provide both technical leadership and an informed strategic business vision.
Some of the job opportunities for the graduates of the DTI program include: Business Analyst, Data Analyst, Business Technology Consultant, Customer Intelligence Specialist, Software Developer, Data Scientist, Business Intelligence Developer, Information Technology Manager, Quality Assurance Specialist, Business Process Development Manager, Business Performance Manager, Application Developer in Finance, Human Resource, Enterprise Resource, and Supply Chain.

Directors' Message

The accelerating pace of digitally-driven technological change presents enormous benefits and challenges throughout the world. Our unique Tri-faculty graduate program situates itself at the centre of Canada’s digital innovation ecosystem, bringing together the faculties of Arts, Engineering, and the Telfer School of Management to offer a program of study that provides highly qualified students with a host of opportunities to pursue innovative, boundary-crossing research at the intersections of technological change, policy innovation and social transformation. Our program attracts students with a wide range of scholarly and professional backgrounds from all over the world. Reflecting our interdisciplinary approach to tackling real-world challenges and opportunities arising from digital innovations, each student works with scholars engaged with anticipating the opportunities and risks presented by technological disruptions, mitigating their potentially detrimental societal impacts, and ensuring an equitable distribution of the benefits accruing from these changes. Building on our existing collaborations and partnerships with industry, government and civil society, our graduates emerge with the ability to mobilize and leverage the strategic business, policy, social, and technical leadership skills needed to navigate the complexities of technological and social transformations.