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Digital Innovation and Management

Master

The programme

The MSc programme in Digital Innovation & Management equips you with the knowledge, skills, and tools to engage with the many challenges and opportunities created by digital change and innovation. It does so by combining knowledge and competences from information systems, science and technology studies, and service design with insights from related fields such as business research and organisation, innovation, and ethnographic studies of digital technology.

Managing the complexity of digitalisation requires the ability to make informed and timely decisions in situ. Classic management and organisational strategies do not always readily apply when working with turbulent digitalisation processes. Adopting the right mindset is crucial, and the ability to do so relies on developing a deep understanding of the complex interplay between people, organisational processes, and digital technologies.

The programme’s socio-technical perspective teaches you to navigate between technological, organisational and societal perspectives. You learn to communicate and collaborate across disciplines, manage organisational change and connect critical analysis with the development of practical solutions.

The programme has a broad international outlook and is taught in English. Case material is derived from both Danish and international organisations.

 

Meet a student from Digital Innovation & Management

Meet Sidsel, who studies Digital Innovation & Management, and learn more about the programme and study life at ITU.

Is this programme for you?

As a student of Digital Innovation & Management, you want to make a difference in contemporary design and development of digital innovation. You are interested in digitalisation as a complex social and technical phenomenon which requires theoretical sophistication, methodological ingenuity, and practical engagement.

You would like to work critically and constructively with organisational, societal, or business challenges and opportunities which often require innovative solutions. You are interested in understanding different professional perspectives and in working across technological and organisational boundaries.

Project work is central to the programme, where you get to collaborate with your fellow students on new ideas and solutions to organisational, societal, and business-related problems.

Digital Innovation & Management is open to students with a non-technical background. However, if you have programming experience, you can take an elective instead of the course Programming and Data Processing.

Programme structure

The MSc programme in Digital Innovation & Management has a flexible structure, leaving room for you to shape your own unique profile. The programme contains mandatory courses, recommended specialisations, and electives.

 

1. semester

Navigating Complexity: Mapping, Analyzing and Decision-Making
(15 ECTS)
Reassembling Innovation
(7.5 ECTS)
Computational Literacies
(7.5 ECTS)

2. semester

Processes Innovation
(15 ECTS)
Programming and Data Processing*
(7.5 ECTS)
Specialisation
(7.5 ECTS)

3. semester

Digital Organizing and Transformation
(7.5 ECTS)
Elective
(7.5 ECTS)
Specialisation
(15 ECTS)

4. semester

Master's Thesis
(30 ECTS)
*Students who have passed a similar course prior to admission are exempted and will have an elective instead.

The mandatory content is distributed on the following courses:

  • Navigating Complexity: Mapping, Visualisation and Decision-making (15 ECTS) will equip you with a set of theoretical and practical tools to conduct research design for navigating complex datasets. You will learn about inductive inquiry and methods for analysis of complexity including problematisation, controversy mapping, digital methods, and situational analysis.
  • Reassembling Innovation (7.5 ECTS) will provide you with a range of theoretical perspectives and methodological tools to critically approach, understand, and analyse complex entanglements between IT, innovation and society. You will learn about organisational strategy and design within open ecosystems.
  • Computational Literacies (7.5 ECTS) will enable you to use fundamental computer science concepts and methods. You will develop the ability to use computational thinking and methods as a way of understanding and solving complex problems and designing socio-technical systems.
  • Process Innovation (15 ECTS) focuses on digital process innovation as a way to harness the potential of digital technologies to redesign organisational work processes and reconfigure internal and external resources in order to sense and respond to new opportunities and challenges.
  • Digital Organizing and Transformation (7.5 ECTS) examines organisations in light of contemporary organisational and managerial challenges related to digital organizing and digital transformation. It investigates questions of the changing nature of work, and themes such as leadership, management, and organizing.
  • Programming and Data Processing (7.5 ECTS) gives you a basic introduction to programming and data processing. You will get a hands-on introduction to the Python programming language and how to work with tabular data. This will enable you to solve simple programmatic tasks as well as to get an idea of what the role of the programmer entails.

The programme offers a number of specialisation courses. You can opt for one of our recommended specialisations packages or combine the courses to create your own. The specialisation allows you to reach an advanced level of skills in a specific area and prepare you to write your master's thesis.

This flexible structure also gives you opportunity to study abroad on your third semester. You can further shape your own profile through electives at the IT University or another university in Denmark or abroad. The Master's thesis can be written in groups or individually.

See a description of all courses

Recommended specialisations

A specialisation consists of 22.5 ECTS. You can follow one of the recommended combinations or customise your specialisation by combining the specialisation courses. This allows you to shape your academic profile and can make room for courses completed at another university in Denmark or abroad.

Learn how organisations use artificial intelligence and business analytics to understand complex challenges and support decision-making. You will work with AI technologies, data and analytical methods while developing a critical understanding of their business, organisational, political, and societal implications.

Courses:

  • AI Processes (7,5 ECTS)
  • Managing Business Analytics and Data-Driven Decision-Making (15 ECTS)

Explore how organisations design, manage, and improve services in complex and changing environments. You learn to analyse service systems and use digital service design methods to create valuable and sustainable service experiences.

Courses:

  • Making Sense of Service Systems (7,5 ECTS)
  • Service Design - Management and Implementation (15 ECTS)

Examine how digital technologies are implemented in and contribute to shaping the public sector in an increasingly digital society. You gain tools to analyse and contribute to digital transformation across public institutions and the organisations that support them.

Courses:

  • The Digital State (7,5 ECTS)
  • The Digital State in Practice (15 ECTS)

Specialisation portraits

Benjamin chose a specialisation that focuses on Big Data. He and his group writes a project about crowdfunding in connection to the platform Kickstarter. They examine what makes a project successful.

Marianne and Julie chose a specialisation that focuses on Public Digitalisation. Hear how they study digitalisation processes and what they have learned from the specialisation.

Meet Viktoria and Jens and hear them talk about a specialisation that focuses on Service Design, where they learn to organise services, collaborate with companies, and present their service designs.

Teaching

The teaching methods vary from traditional lectures and collaborative project work. Students are expected to show initiative, hone collaborative skills, and practise project management. You will be taught by exceptional researchers and leading professionals in the field that will encourage you to excel and participate actively in class.

Project work is an important part of the MSc in Digital Innovation & Management, as it allows you to develop and apply skills that are difficult to acquire through lectures alone. Project work also offers you the opportunity to delve deeper into specific areas that interest you and your teammates. It also allows you to engage more in depth with case organisations and different contexts.

The programme in general – and the comprehensive 15 ECTS courses in particular – gives you opportunity to collaborate with public organisations and private companies, and to explore how theory applies to practice. Through this collaboration, you can work with current industry and societal challenges while developing a professional network before you graduate.

Career opportunities

Digital Innovation & Management offers a socio-technical perspective that prepares you for an exciting career working with digital innovation and transformation in the private or public sector.

With an MSc in Digital Innovation & Management you can become a liaison between business managers and technical experts, with the ability to speak both languages and act as bridge between different professional communities. You learn to facilitate knowledge sharing, negotiate different perspectives, and translate complex issues between decision-makers, technical specialists and non-specialists.

As a graduate of Digital Innovations & Management, you will know how to facilitate and make decisions that are based on data analysis and interpretation. You will also be able to analyse the complexity of modern organisations, communicate across disciplines, and propose solutions to social, organisational, and technical challenges.

These bridging competencies are particularly relevant as organisations adopt AI and other emerging technologies. You will be equipped to assess not only what a technology can do, but also how it should be introduced, managed, and used responsibly in different organisational contexts.

As a graduate, you will be an asset for a wide array of employers in the private as well as the public sector. You will be well-equipped to shape your career in a changing professional environment.

The job titles listed below are examples of positions and tasks, you may be qualified for, depending on your area of specialisation in the programme:

  • Consultant
  • Business Analyst
  • Business Intelligence Specialist
  • Chief Information Officer
  • Enterprise Architect
  • Functional Manager (e.g. Finance, Marketing)
  • Innovation Manager
  • IT Project Manager
  • Process Manager/Owner
  • Product/Service Manager
  • R&D Manager
  • Solution Architect 

If you wish to pursue a research career, you can apply for a PhD programme at the IT University.

Career portrait

Kristine studied Digital Innovation & Management. Hear what she is doing as an IT-consultant at KPMG.

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Admission figures 2026

Number of applicants
552
Number of admitted students
146
Distribution of admitted students, with/without legal right
28% / 72%
Distribution of admitted students by nationality (Denmark/international)
95% / 5%
Gender distribution, f/m (based on CPR)
51% / 49%
Available spots
No

Please note: ITU only has a summer intake and does not offer standby places as part of the admissions process.

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