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Certificate in Digital Transformation Management – MSIT Master’s Program

Master innovative organizational, project, and people-management methods adapted to the digital era, enabling the effective integration of digital tools, data, cloud technologies, AI, LLMs, Blockchain, and modern architecture models for sustainable transformation.

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🎓 The PTD® Certificate “Digital Transformation Leadership” prepares you to integrate technological innovations and lead the digital transformation of organizations.

Certificate | Leading Digital Transformation

Executive Program – Mines Paris – PSL

Digital transformation is profoundly redefining business models, internal processes, and human interactions within organizations. In response to this shift, this certificate aims to provide the tools required to design and implement an ambitious digital strategy adapted to new economic and technological paradigms.

The program explores the impact of technological innovations – AI, blockchain, platforms – on corporate strategy, customer relationships, and innovation dynamics.

Learning Objectives

  • Integrate digital issues into the organization’s overall strategic thinking
  • Redesign or create business models based on digital technologies
  • Lead transformation projects in synergy with IT and business functions
  • Implement agile project management methodologies
  • Foster continuous and coherent innovation within existing structures

A program dedicated to digital transformation management: AI integration, agile project management, digital marketing…

The certificate draws on the teaching and research excellence of Mines Paris – PSL and Université Paris Dauphine – PSL, as well as on recognized experts and Mines Paris alumni now holding senior leadership positions in the digital sector.

It also leverages the expertise of leading research centers such as:

A strategic program for digital talents

This Executive Certificate is designed for managers who want to strengthen the performance and governance of their information systems while supporting their company’s digital transformation.

The program enables you to harness the potential of generative AI and LLMs to create high-value services, rethink customer relationships in the digital age, support people and organizational structures through major technological disruptions, and modernize network infrastructures.

  • Align digital and strategy: assess the impact of emerging technologies (AI, blockchain, cloud) on business models.
  • Design and roll out digital projects in agile mode, in coordination with the IT function.
  • Support change: stimulate innovation, mobilize teams, and manage human challenges.
  • Leverage the excellence of Mines Paris – Dauphine with a compact format (1 week/month) compatible with professional activity.

The certificate can be funded as part of a skills development plan or an HR development strategy for IT talent. It is also eligible for the Compte Personnel de Formation (CPF).



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    Training Benefits

    🎓 Label of Excellence

    Conférence des grandes écoles

    🕒 Alternating Format

    Compatible with professional life

    💡 Dual Expertise

    Strategic & technological

    Teaching Approach & Content

    📘 4 thematic modules

    1 week per module, spread over 4 months

    🔄 Cross-functional project

    1 company project integrated into the curriculum

    👥 Immersive learning

    Real-life cases, simulations, interactive workshops

    Program

    Training Modules

    Module 1 – AI, LLMs & Blockchain: Driving Innovation

    • Regulatory issues of AI
    • LLMs: principles and integration
    • Agents, RAGs and fine-tuning
    • AI project management
    • Blockchain: understand, experiment, transform

    Module 3 – Digital Project Management and Agility

    • Digital project management
    • Practice of design thinking
    • CK method
    • Agility
    • Innovation management

    Module 2 – Digital Transformation & Customer Relationship

    • Innovation management and tools
    • Data strategy, marketing and customer transformation
    • Managing customer experience
    • Digital marketing

    Module 4 – People, Skills and Change Management

    • Organizational capabilities
    • Public speaking
    • Management of IS skills
    • Business games

    Cross-functional Project – Digital Transformation Management

    Through a team-based field analysis, the goal is to implement a strategic digital transformation plan applied to a real case or company.

    Executive Certificate Mines Paris – professional training in digital transformation leadership, AI, agile management, and digital management

    Topics Covered

    This program is intended for executives, managers, and future CIOs who wish to design and implement digital projects or lead the digital transformation of their organization. It covers all key competencies for strategic change management in the face of major technological disruptions.

    This module addresses the organizational and methodological levers of digital transformation:

    • Digital transformation of the organization
    • Customer relationship & digital customer journey
    • Marketing and data in digital transformation
    • Agile approaches & change management

    This module presents the tools and methods needed to effectively manage projects related to information systems:

    • Lifecycle of IS projects
    • Organization, roles, and responsibilities
    • Monitoring project timelines, costs, and quality
    • Risk management and change management
    • Specific management of AI projects

    This module explores the methods and tools for steering innovation in a digital environment:

    • New business models linked to digital
    • Design thinking applied to innovation
    • CK method (C-K design theory)
    • Agile innovation management
    • Business game: strategic innovation simulation

    This module combines agile project management and user-centered methods to design effective digital solutions:

    • Digital project management and agility (Scrum, Lean)
    • Design thinking and user-driven innovation
    • Rapid prototyping and iterations
    • User testing and feedback
    • Change management in a digital environment

    This module addresses the digital transformation of organizations from the perspective of marketing and customer relationship management:

    • Digital transformation of organizations
    • Marketing strategy and digitalization of the offering
    • Data marketing & datafication
    • Customer experience management
    • Managing customer relationships in the digital age

    This module explores the levers for optimizing information systems processes to improve performance and quality of service:

    • IS urbanization and strategic alignment
    • Service quality and IS performance management
    • Continuous improvement and operational performance
    • Lean management and Six Sigma methods

    This module develops the human skills needed to lead change and support teams in a digital transformation context:

    • Talent and skills management
    • Leadership and managerial communication
    • Change management
    • Business games and decision-making simulations
    • Public speaking and influence

    This module provides the legal and practical foundations for framing the integration of AI within the organization, managing vendor contracts, and protecting data in digital projects.

    • AI, GDPR, and issues of regulation and sovereignty

      • LLMs: definitions, technological principles, applications, practice, prompt engineering, case studies

    • AI and specific cybersecurity risks

    This module explores the concepts and challenges of using LLM-type AI in the enterprise

    • LLMs: definitions, technological principles, applications
    • Hosted solutions (OpenAI GPT) versus sovereign solutions and training
    • Prompt engineering & case studies
    • Agents, RAG and fine-tuning to support business functions

    The program explores the integration of artificial intelligence within organizations:

    • AI in productivity tools and everyday team activities
    • AI in project management
    • Managing AI-related risks

    This module invites participants to explore the strategic potential of emerging data-management technologies and their role in the evolution of business models:

    • Fundamental principles of blockchain
    • Use cases: traceability, certification, finance, energy
    • Smart contracts and automation of business processes
    • Decentralized infrastructures and web3
    • Innovative technologies applied to the transformation of information systems

    The program addresses how to use data and optimize digital tools to improve processes and service quality within the company

    • Fundamentals of marketing strategy
    • Datafication, data & marketing in the digital age
    • Digital marketing
    • Managing customer experience in a context of digital transformation

    Practical Information

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    Duration

    4 months (20 days of training)

    Location

    Mines Paris – PSL (Paris 6th)

    Languages

    English & French

    Tuition Fees

    €14,500 – Eligible for CPFinfo

    Target Audience

    This certificate is intended for experienced managers or executives (≥ 5 years of professional experience) involved in digital transformation or innovation initiatives.

    Schedule

    • October to January: 1 week/month
    • Cross-functional project “Information Systems Management”
    • Presentation of the cross-functional project in January

    Apply

    Send a CV and a motivation to:

    • contact-msit@minesparis.psl.eu

    If you have any questions regarding admissions, please feel free to contact us.

    Next Intake

    • |2 February 2026
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    Contacts

    Information & Admissions

    FloXrie MXazzorana

    Program Director

    06 62 87 87 21

    flor­–ie.ma‌zzor­aiona@min‌espar­is.psl.eu

    Dominika Gond

    Director of Specialized Master’s Programs

    01 40 51 90 81

    dominika.gond@minesparis.psl.eu

    A program integrated into the MSIT Specialized Master’s degree, composed of two certifying semesters: Information Systems Management & Digital Transformation

    The PTD Certificate – Leading Digital Transformation is part of the Executive MSIT Specialized Master’s – Strategic Management of Information and Technologies

    The certificate may therefore be complemented by the following certificate: Information Systems Management.

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    Executive MSIT Specialized Master Mines Paris – digital transformation, IS management, dual degree with Dauphine

    The MSIT Master is the complete program combining ‘Information Systems Management’, ‘Leading Digital Transformation’, the professional thesis and the elective week. It confers a dual Mines – Dauphine degree.



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      MSIT & MINES PARIS Alumni

      An Active, Engaged Community

      • 700+ alumni forming an influential network of digital leaders
      • A dedicated alumni association (MSIT.org) to network, share, and collaborate
      • Events, working groups, mentoring, and cross-cohort networking
      • Integration into Mines Paris Alumni, a 17,000-strong network

      Career Outcomes & Impact

      • Satisfaction rate: 100%
      • Success rate: > 95%
      • Target roles: CIO, CDO, Head of Digital Transformation, Strategy Consultant, Tech Entrepreneur
      • Sample projects: hospital geolocation, customer journey redesign, digitization of social housing, and more

      Executive Program Leadership

      FlorXie MaXzzorana

      PhD in Management Sciences and Civil Engineer from Mines Paris. Florianaorie MazzoNirana co-leads the MSIT Master’s and teaches in the fields of machine learning, energy, and digital transformation.

      A committed entrepreneur, she founded Zelya Energy, an independent energy consulting firm nearly 20 years ago. She also led Zelya Power Concept (2011–2016), focused on the development and digitalisation of renewable energy projects, and launched WindDeep, a software for wind farm monitoring, performance analytics and energy forecasting.

      Thibaut Barbarin

      PhD in Management Sciences. Thibaut Barbarin co-leads the Executive Mastère Spécialisé MSIT and oversees the University Diploma “Intrapreneurship & Digital Transformation” (CFEE) at Dauphine.

      He built his expertise over 15 years at Unilever and Éditions Atlas, holding key marketing roles from product manager to marketing director. A teacher-researcher at Paris-Dauphine, he is recognized for his work on test-and-learn, innovation, and digital transformation.



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        How to finance your certificate?

        Depending on your professional situation, several funding options are available to enroll in the Information Systems Management Certificate, the PTD Certificate (Leading Digital Transformation), or the full MSIT® Specialized Master’s program to which they belong.This program is notably:

        • Eligible for CPF (Compte Personnel de Formation)
        • Fundable through an OPCO (Skills Operator)
        • Applicable under a Corporate Skills Development Plan
        • Eligible for a professionalization contract, thanks to its RNCP registration
        • Certified by the Conférence des Grandes Écoles, a strong signal for public and private funders
        • Fundable through most career transition schemes (mobility and reskilling programs)
        • Eligible for Transition Pro / FNE Formation depending on conditions and region
        • Fundable by your employer (full or partial coverage)
        • Instalment payment possible for non-covered amounts

        These funding options are, in many cases, combinable: you can activate several mechanisms in parallel to optimize your coverage.

        ➔See the practical guide how to finance your training depending on your status (permanent contract, fixed-term contract, career change, etc.).