NDAK14010U Summer School in Digital Services Innovation
Commercial and public services are increasingly implemented as
‘digital services’, which are automated services that are digitally
delivered, e.g., via the Internet. E-health portals, media
streaming, electronic tax filing, and online banking are just a few
among many digital services that have fundamentally changed the
commercial and civil services in the past decade.
The aim of this course is to give students theoretical frameworks
and practical skills in developing innovative digital services. The
course will emphasize critical services that have high potential
for generating enduring societal impact. In particular, we will
focus on the healthcare domain in which digital services play a
critical role in service delivery and have critical impact on key
performance indicators, and require security, reliability,
integration, and presentation of information to both professional
and private users.
The summer school will feature a full day program in which
lectures, workshops, and prototyping work are mixed. Students will
work in interdisciplinary groups to design innovative digital
services based on cases given by external organizations.
After completing the course, students are expected to have:
Knowledge of:
- Techniques to analyze and define opportunities for digital services. For example, how to perform field studies among and interview potential patients or healthcare professionals
- Techniques for design and prototyping of digital services in collaboration with key stakeholders. For example, techniques to create and evaluate physical mock-ups and transform these to software prototypes
- Business modeling of digital services. For example, using a business model canvas to model value flow as affected by a digital service
- Present and analyze the requirements, challenges, and opportunities of digital services
Skills to:
- Design digital services in collaboration with key stakeholders
- Build and evaluate prototypes of digital services
- Create and evaluate business models for digital services
Competences to:
- Work effectively in cross-disciplinary teams including relating students' own core knowledge and skills to that of others
- Communicate and work effectively with key stakeholders
The course will feature obligatory reading on entrepreneurship and business modeling. The following are examples of relevant text books:
- Read, S., Sarasvathy, S., Dew, N., Wiltbank, R., Ohlsson, A.-V. (2011). Effectual Entrepreneurship. Routledge
- Osterwalder, A., Pigneur, Y. (2010). Business Model Generation. Wiley
The course books will be supplemented with scientific papers.
- Category
- Hours
- Exam
- 20
- Guidance
- 10
- Lectures
- 20
- Practical exercises
- 20
- Preparation
- 40
- Project work
- 96
- Total
- 206
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- Credit
- 7,5 ECTS
- Type of assessment
- Written assignmentOral examinationOral defence based on a portfolio and assessment of an individual written report. The oral defence weights 2/3 of the grade. The report weighs 1/3 of the grade. One grade is given for the complete course.
- Exam registration requirements
- 3 obligatory assignments based on the group project must be
approved to be eligible for the exam.
A portfolio must also be completed during the course. - Aid
- All aids allowed
- Marking scale
- 7-point grading scale
- Censorship form
- No external censorship
Several internal examiners
- Re-exam
- The re-exam is the same as the ordinary exam in which a new written assignment will have to be handed in.
Criteria for exam assesment
See learning outcomes.
Course information
- Language
- English
- Course code
- NDAK14010U
- Credit
- 7,5 ECTS
- Level
- Full Degree Master
- Duration
- 1 block
- Placement
- Summer
- Schedule
- Summer course
- Course capacity
- No limit
- Continuing and further education
- Study board
- Study Board of Mathematics and Computer Science
Contracting department
- Department of Computer Science
Course responsibles
- Klaus Marius Hansen (7-6f70657977716c44686d326f7932686f)
Lecturers
The course is taught jointly by teachers from CBS, DTU, and UCPH.