Digital Product Leadership, Delivery and Change Management

Throughout the program, you will develop the ability to design and manage product and technology portfolios, balance innovation and risk, and make data-driven strategic decisions. You will also explore how to build an organizational environment where learning, experimentation, and collaboration drive innovation and enable teams to achieve stronger results.

The microdegree equips leaders with practical tools to align portfolio management, technology choices, and team leadership into a coherent operating model. By the end of the program, you will apply your learning in practice by developing a portfolio management solution for your organization, conducting an impact analysis, and defending your strategic decisions before an expert panel.

What will you learn?

Strategic portfolio management: how to design and lead a coherent product and technology landscape aligned with organizational goals.
Linking technology and business: how to translate technological decisions into business value and make informed investment choices.
Building an innovation culture: how to create an environment that supports learning, experimentation, and collaboration.
Leading through influence: how to guide teams and shape decisions without formal authority.
Change management: how to define problems, design change journeys, and evaluate impact.

Strategic Technology & Product Portfolio Leadership – 24 contact hours, 106 hours of independent study – 5 ECTS

Why is important?

Leaders must be able to make decisions that balance innovation, risk, and business impact while ensuring effective use of resources.

What will you learn?

In this course, participants learn to design and manage digital product and technology portfolios using structured models and data-driven approaches. The focus is on building strategic narratives, balancing portfolios (e.g. innovation vs stability), and aligning technology decisions with business value.

Participants also develop the ability to understand and guide technical strategy without deep specialization, while strengthening collaboration between engineering and business stakeholders to ensure coherent execution.

Innovation Culture and Leading through Influence – 24 contact hours, 106 hours of independent study – 5 ECTS

Why is it important?

Even the best strategy will not succeed if the organizational culture does not support learning, collaboration, and experimentation.

What will you learn?

This course focuses on how to build an organizational culture that supports learning and innovation. Key topics include growth mindset, psychological safety, trust-building, and leading through influence in environments where formal authority may be limited.

Participants work with practical frameworks and tools (e.g. Growth Mindset, Psychological Safety, Trust Equation, Nonviolent Communication) to improve collaboration, resolve conflicts, and enhance team performance in diverse environments.

Capstone: Product Portfolio Leadership and Organisational Impact – 24 contact hours, 106 hours of independent study – 5 ECTS

Why is it important?

Strategic leadership requires the ability to link decisions to real impact and defend them convincingly. Leaders must demonstrate how their choices create value for the organization, users, and society.

What will you do?

In the final course, participants apply all acquired knowledge in a practical capstone project. They develop a Product Leader Portfolio that includes portfolio strategy, a technology roadmap, and risk considerations.

In addition, participants conduct an impact analysis and define a clear organizational change problem and solution path. The program concludes with a final defense before an expert panel, where strategic thinking, argumentation skills, and leadership capability are assessed.

• Bachelor’s degree or equivalent qualification.
• At least 3 years of work experience in business or entrepreneurship
• EU/EEA/Swiss citizenship or a valid temporary residence permit allowing study in Estonia.
• English at B2 level
• Completed online consultation with EBS before March 10, 2027

Upon successful completion of the microdegree, the learner

• knows how to manage the organization's comprehensive digital product portfolio, ensure synergy between products and achieve alignment with the organization's long-term strategic goals;
• recognizes the potential areas of application of new technologies;
• understands the nature of organizational culture and is able to support the development of an organizational culture that is open to innovation, trusting and inclusive, which encourages people to experiment and develop;
• is able to develop and shape the company's digital product portfolio, taking into account the impact of digital products at three levels: individual, organization and society.

To complete the microdegree, learners must successfully pass all courses included in the programme. Courses assessed with a grade must be passed with at least grade E (51–60%).

Assessment is course-based and aligned with the learning outcomes. Successful completion of the module is evaluated through individual and group assignments as well as a final assessment, in accordance with the grading guidelines.

The assessment focuses on the participant’s ability to define and analyze organizational change challenges, develop a coherent approach to digital product portfolio leadership, and evaluate the impact of strategic decisions. Throughout the program, participants build an individual Product Leader Portfolio that consolidates their developed solutions and leadership approach.

To complete the microdegree, participants must submit a reflection paper and an impact analysis, and defend their work in a final presentation before an expert panel. Assessment emphasizes practical application, quality of argumentation, and the ability to link strategic choices with organizational and societal impact.

The courses takes place at EBS’s modern campus in Tallinn, A. Lauteri 3. Students have access to ergonomic classrooms, the EBS library, and the cloud-based Canvas learning platform. The study process is supported by online tools such as Canvas and MS Teams. Free Wi-Fi is available throughout the building.