Institute of Corporate Directors - Institute of Corporate Directors

Description

Digital transformation is accelerating across all industries, with companies exponentially increasing investment in emerging technologies, embracing innovation and committing to leveraging digital solutions across their entire business value chains. From the front-end, customer-facing processes to the search for efficiency of back-end operations, including product and business model development and innovation, no area of an organization is left untouched. In this rapid transformation, boards’ traditional oversight models and tools are often too slow, or inadequate. This course will address how corporate directors can add strategic value to the digital transformation process while fulfilling their oversight and fiduciary duties.

Current Offerings

Eligibility

The Digital Transformation from the Boardroom course is ideal for boards of directors of for-profit, Crown and not-for-profit organizations who want to enhance their oversight of their organization’s digital transformation process.

Objectives

This course is designed to build directors’ skills and knowledge to fulfill their strategic responsibilities and effective oversight of their organizations’ digital transformation journeys. Specifically, participants will:
- Understand their role in establishing the digital transformation vision, ambition and roadmap
- Assess the organization’s digital maturity and readiness, and identify human and technology gaps
- Obtain the tools and define the metrics necessary for the governance of digital transformation projects
- Access and benchmark resources allocated for digital transformation
- Define and mitigate specific risks linked to the digital transformation
- Learn to build the connection between the strategic ambition and the culture required
- Understand how to engage in conversations about technology and ethics
- Learn about optimal board structure and composition during digital transformation
- Develop the board’s learning agenda to support the oversight of their organization’s digital transformation journey

Benefits

Directors will be equipped with the necessary knowledge, tools and practical insights to bring strategic value to the oversight of their organization’s digital transformation process.

Format

This program uses a blended online learning model that weaves together best practices in adult education with creative networking opportunities.
The model includes:

Independent online learning (three to four hours)
Comprised of videos, webinars, podcasts, readings, polls and more, independent learning enables participants to work through material at the time and pace that best suits their individual needs. It also allows for content to be broken into shorter, more digestible sections, and delivered in multiple formats to appeal to different preferences.

Live, instructor-led session (approximately four hours)
This instructor-led online session will focus on the application of concepts covered through independent learning. The live session might include class discussions, breakout group discussions and exercises, Q & A with instructors and other experts, simulations, live interactive panel discussions, live polling and online chats.

Supplemental resources and tools
Participants may receive supplemental resources to augment the required components of their independent learning packages.

Learning sustainment and engagement opportunities
Following course completion, participants will be invited to join an Alumni Portal, becoming part of a community of practice where they gain access to tools and resources to help apply course learnings in real-life settings. They will also have opportunities to engage in discussion forums with course peers to exchange questions, ideas and experiences that will round out their newly acquired knowledge and skills.

Faculty

Estelle Métayer

National Academic Director

President, Competia; Director, BRP Inc., Audemars Piguet, Martur, Ivanhoé Cambridge and Agropur; Advisory Board Member, Groupe Sélection and LifeScore; Board Member, Quebec Chapter, Institute of Corporate Directors

Estelle Métayer is an expert in Competitive and Strategic Intelligence. Her research focuses on how managers, CEOs, and board members build and improve their strategic planning and/or competitive intelligence function to avoid strategic blind spots. An adjunct professor for McGill University, she teaches in the Advanced Leadership Programs, the International Masters for Health Leadership, The Analytics Leadership Program and the Executive MBA among others. For the Institute of Corporate Directors’ certification and training programs, she leads modules around strategic blind spots, technology oversight, governance of technology and social media crisis management. Estelle is or has also been a guest lecturer in programs led or co-led by IMD (Lausanne) since 2008, the IMB (India), INSEAD (France) or MIT (United States).

Estelle is an independent member of the board of BRP inc. ($DOO on the TSX, $DOOO on the NASDAQ) and a member of the Audit Committee. She is an independent director for Audemars-Piguet (Swiss luxury watches), a private family business in Switzerland, is a member of the Strategy Committee, the HR and Compensation Committee and chairs the Investment Committee. She is a member of the board of Agropur, a dairy co-op (Canada), a member of the Governance, of the Technology and of the Sustainable Development Committees. She is a member of the board of Ivanhoe Cambridge (real estate investments, a 60bn$ fund) and is the chair of the Governance and Ethics Committee and a member of the HR and Compensation Committee. She is a board member of family business Martur Fompak (automobile, Turkey) and a member of the Audit Committee. She serves on the advisory boards of LifeScore (UK) an AI music software start-up, and Groupe Sélection (Retirement homes-Montreal, Canada). She is also a board member of the executive of the Institut des Administrateurs de Société (Quebec Chapter of Institute of Corporate Directors) where she chairs the Technology Committee. Previously, she was a member of the board of Zag Bank (a Charter 1 Canadian online bank)(Calgary, Canada), Blockstream (blockchain technology) (Mountain View) and video-game developer Ubisoft ($UBI on Euronext) where she chaired the Compensation Committee. She also served on the advisory board of Ricardo Media (Media- Montreal, Canada, acquired by Sobeys/Empire in 2021).

Estelle was trained in the Netherlands, where she obtained her MBA and Drs. from the University of Nijenrode. She speaks French, English, German, Dutch, Italian and is learning Arabic and Turkish. She is also a mother, a commercial pilot and flight instructor.