Digital Business
UndergraduateLTU-BUS3DIG2024
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- Study method
- 100% online
- Assessments
- 100% online
- Entry requirements
- Part of a degree
- Duration
- 12 weeks
- Loan available
- HECS-HELP and FEE-HELP available
Digital Business
About this subject
On successful completion you will be able to:
- Evaluate different types of business problems given the impact of digital change.
- Identify and analyse emerging digital business trends and strategies
- Assess and design your personal online brand
- Digital business ecosystems
- Digital business strategy
- Digital business models
- Digital transformation, consumers and society
- Brands in a digital world
In this online subject you will develop and enhance your online research and communication skills. In so doing you will explore the business models of digital disruptors such as eBay, Apple, Google, Facebook and Amazon, who are using digital business models to disrupt established businesses in telecommunications, transportation, advertising, e-commerce, automotive, insurance, education and many other industries. You will also explore how established businesses are responding with new business models of their own to meet challenges posed by the expanding digital economy. Through this subject you will develop the skills required to design innovative solutions using digital technologies, to enhance the ability of businesses and community organisations to achieve strategic goals.
- Two online formative and reflective tasks is each worth 15% (equivalent to 1200 words). (30%)
- Business analysis report (equivalent to 1800 words). (40%)
- Critically reflect on a personal branding task (equivalent to 1200 words) (30%)
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- 17
- Times Higher Education Ranking 2024:
- 18
Entry requirements
Part of a degree
To enrol in this subject you must be accepted into one of the following degrees:
Elective
- LAT-BUS-DEG-2024 - Bachelor of Business
- LAT-ART-DEG-2024 - Bachelor of Arts
- LAT-PYS-DEG-2024 - Bachelor of Psychological Science
Others
Prerequisites: Students must have completed at least 180 credit points of a La Trobe Bachelor degree.
Additional requirements
No additional requirements
Study load
- 0.125 EFTSL
- This is in the range of 10 to 12 hours of study each week.
Equivalent full time study load (EFTSL) is one way to calculate your study load. One (1.0) EFTSL is equivalent to a full-time study load for one year.
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Related degrees
Once you’ve completed this subject it can be credited towards one of the following courses
UndergraduateLAT-BUS-DEG
UndergraduateLAT-ART-DEG
Bachelor of Psychological Science
UndergraduateLAT-PYS-DEG