Minor in Digital and Technology Solutions

The industrial revolution eras have evolved different organizations and how they use technology to increase productivity to gain competitive advantage. In an environment where there is prevalence in technology use and disruptions, companies need to be constantly innovating their products, services, and processes in order to improve customer experience and satisfaction. This program provides an opportunity to explore how different industries and organizations can benefit from the adoption of digital solutions, methods, and strategies which fit their current needs and business challenges.

Program Outcomes

By the end of the program, learners will be able to:

  • Recommend an appropriate digital strategy to support organizational operations
  • Design an information system/business application/ICT solution that can help improve core business function
  • Determine business data and corresponding analytics to determine organizational aspects for improvement

Course List

Digital Strategy and Transformation (ITDIGIT) 3 units
Emerging Technologies (ITEMTEC) 3 units
Design Thinking (ISDESTH) 3 units
Data and Business Analytics (ISBUSAN) 3 units

Course Details

Digital Strategy and Transformation (ITDIGIT)
This course enables students to achieve a fundamental understanding of digital transformation and how it both positively and negatively affects various industries and sectors. The course also covers how a digital strategy gives an opportunity for organizations to create shifts in their core business functions in order to gain and sustain competitive advantage.

By the end of the course, learners should be able to:

  • Understand the foundations and principles of digital transformation and its impact on different industries 
  • Analyze an organization’s existing digital strategy/need for a digital strategy and the challenges and opportunities that go with it
  • Identify and present appropriate actions for the successful implementation of a digital strategy in an organization’s functional unit

Emerging Technologies (ITEMTEC)
This course provides an in-depth exploration of emerging technologies and trends and their historical backgrounds. The current and future impacts of these technologies on various organizations, industries, and sectors will be examined in order to determine whether they are viable for adoption. Moreover, different perspectives, including economic, social, and cultural ones, will be used to analyze the effects of new innovations in the Philippine context and around the world.

By the end of the course, learners should be able to:

  • Be familiar with the historical and new emerging technology trends in various industries
  • Determine the advantages and disadvantages of adopting emerging technologies in a particular organization/industry
  • Recognize the current and potential impact of technologies on economic, social, and cultural landscapes, on a local and global scale

Design Thinking (ISDESTH)
This course involves the development of skills in innovative thinking and strategic problem solving with the goal of addressing customer needs. With regard to creating ICT solutions, such as business applications and information systems, this design thinking course provides a systematic approach to new product development, covering human-centered processes of ideation, prototyping, and testing. Additionally, contemporary tools and methods that are used in design thinking will also be tackled.

By the end of the course, learners should be able to:

  • Understand the design thinking framework and its principles
  • Apply the design thinking framework, processes, techniques, and strategies in identifying problems and understanding customer/user requirements
  • Apply the design thinking framework, processes, techniques, and strategies in crafting innovative ICT solutions for identified problems and customer/user requirements
  • Develop, present, and test a prototype of the proposed ICT solution

Data and Business Analytics (ISBUSAN)
This course exposes students to the strategic value of information for the analysis of the organization, its businesses, requirements, and trends. In this course, students will learn how to design and develop a database that can support online and batch transaction processing, considering the characteristics of transactional data, including data integrity, and information persistence. Basic concepts and skills in developing data warehouses to support online analytical processing (OLAP) will also be covered. Furthermore, the course introduces the students to data mining and producing information through business intelligence tools and techniques as part of descriptive analytics.

By the end of the course, learners should be able to:

  • Explain and understand the importance of business intelligence and descriptive analytics in organizations
  • Identify and understand the various techniques of mining data from a data warehouse
  • Design and develop a database that can support transaction processing
  • Apply knowledge in data warehousing in designing one for descriptive analytics

Schedule of Course Offerings

Term 1

  • Digital Strategy and Transformation
  • Emerging Technologies*

Term 2

  • Design Thinking

Term 3

  • Data and Business Analytics
  • Emerging Technologies

*Emerging Technologies can either be taken on Term 1 or Term 3.