New Skill Sets for Leadership in Digital Healthcare Delivery & Digital Medical Product Development

Strengthen your leadership capabilities for digital healthcare, AI-enabled transformation, and medical product development. This standalone module from the Master’s program “AI, Regulatory Affairs and Transformation in Medical Technology (MBA)” helps you understand modern leadership principles, assess your own leadership style, and develop structured approaches for guiding strategic initiatives in complex digital environments.

Key Facts

Qualification

5 ECTS credits 
upon successful completion of the module exam

Course start

1 October 2026

Duration

tba

Course location

Online

Course format

Hybrid: synchronous and asynchronous study

Credit points

5 ECTS

Language

English

Course fee

€1,668

• Professionals and emerging leaders in healthcare, MedTech, digital health, and medical product development who want to strengthen their leadership capabilities in digital transformation contexts.
• Managers, project leads, and experts responsible for strategic initiatives, innovation processes, AI integration, or organizational change.
• Professionals working at the interface of medical technology, regulation, product development, quality management, and healthcare delivery.
• Career switchers with relevant professional experience who want to better understand leadership requirements in digital healthcare and AI-enabled transformation.

The module provides students with the leadership foundations required to guide digital transformation in healthcare delivery and digital medical product development. Students learn how leadership differs from management and how vision, adaptability, trust, and innovation can support organizational change.

The module introduces modern leadership methods and transformation tools, including Objectives and Key Results (OKRs), agile approaches, and structured strategy work. Students explore how these instruments support strategic alignment, collaboration, and clarity in dynamic digital environments.

Further topics include transformational leadership, personal leadership reflection, organizational culture, technology adoption, and the integration of artificial intelligence into existing structures. Students learn to distinguish between speculative hype and practical digital strategy based on evidence-based foresight.

Curriculum at a Glance

Leadership Foundations: leadership versus management, vision, adaptability, innovation, trust-building
Transformation Methods: OKRs, agile approaches, structured strategy work, strategic alignment
Digital Leadership: transformational leadership, team performance, organizational structures, resistance to change
Digital Strategy & AI Integration: technology adoption, organizational culture, AI integration, evidence-based foresight

Content

The module covers leadership capabilities for digital healthcare environments shaped by technological change, transformation, and artificial intelligence. Students explore leadership principles, modern transformation methods, and the organizational challenges of digital change.

They reflect on their own leadership style, compare it with the competencies required for transformation initiatives, and develop structured approaches for guiding teams and strategic initiatives in complex digital contexts.

Qualifications

Participants who successfully complete the module will be awarded 5 ECTS Credit points. The Credit points are awarded after passing the module examination.

The general admission requirements set out in the examination regulations must be met. In preparation for face-to-face events, literature recommendations may be provided. The content of this literature may be assumed as prior knowledge or should be acquired during the module.