The explosive growth of technology innovations, economic globalization, and democratization of information has created a world of high complexity, interdependence, and uncertainty. Disruptive and unpredictable changes affect all aspects of organizations, often all at once. Successful and significant organizations embrace the opportunity to transform, either by responding to or shaping the new environment to accomplish mission goals, stretch the organization’s visions, and sustain strategic advantage.
The Organizational Transformation (OT) Certificate is designed to develop leaders who can shape the environment and their organizations through transformation. Government organizations at all levels, federal, state, and local, are challenged to transform. The OT Certificate offers government decision makers and staff the opportunity to develop their acuity about the nature, forces, and dependencies and interdependencies of turbulent and unpredictable environments, and about the levers and tools for organizational transformation. The course of study allows students the opportunity to expand their creative and critical thinking on strategies, governance, organizational designs, processes, networks, and tools. It will enable them to leverage information and information technologies to achieve their mission while creating and sustaining strategic competitive advantage. The OT Certificate is a specialty in the Government Strategic Leader Master’s Degree.
Certificate Requirements
Award of the OT Certificate requires successful completion of eight (8) courses. The three (3) required courses are Transformation as Strategic Alignment (TAS), Multi-Agency Information-Enabled Collaboration (MAC), and Leading Strategies for Disruptive Innovations (LSI). Students select five (5) additional courses from the OT specialty courses. The specialty courses, building on the foundation courses, delve into particular aspects of defense and national security, homeland security, and national preparedness.
| OT Certificate Requirements | ||
| Required Courses (3 courses) | ||
| Course (Catalog Nbr) | Course Title | Prerequisites |
LSI (6511) |
Leading Strategies for Disruptive Innovation | None |
MAC (6512) |
Multi-Agency Information-Enabled Collaboration | None |
TAS (6528) |
Transformation as Strategic Alignment | None |
| Additional Specialty Courses (5 courses) | ||
| Course (Catalog Nbr) | Course Title | Prerequisites |
CIP (6212) |
Protection of Critical Infrastructure and Key Assets | None |
DMG (6323) |
Decision Making for Government Leaders | None |
DTF (6509) |
Defense Transformation | None |
ESG (6502) |
Experimentation, Simulation, and Gaming | None |
GBE (6501) |
Government Business Enterprise Transformation | None |
GLS (6213) |
Global Strategic Landscape | None |
HLS (6507) |
Homeland Security Information Management | None |
HST (6503) |
Homeland Security Tools and Techniques | None |
IOS (6207) |
National Security in the Information Age | Secret Clearance |
IWS (6202) |
Information, Warfare, and National Security | None |
NCW (6513) |
Network Centric Warfare and Operations | None |
SCL (6322) |
Strategic Communication for Government Leaders | None |