Make → Shift
Learn how to drive transformation and advance your understanding of current and emerging trends shaping our new future.
→→→ your career
Personalise your own learning journey and benefit from a programme designed to help you as a busy professional advance and reinvent in your career.
DRIVE ✦ TRANSFORMATION
Apply cutting-edge strategies by collaborating with peers in an environment that mirrors complex, global, and fast-changing business challenges.
BECOME A NEW KIND ★★★★★ OF LEADER
Become a new kind of leader, one who is creatively driven, kind, adaptive and constantly hungry for learning.
The last two years have just been about surviving. Change was forced, extreme, reactive.
But out of all this disruptive change came something incredible.
We learned to work in an entirely different way. We collaborated, innovated, were agile and flexible. All qualities we need as we are reinventing organizations.
If 2020 and 2021 were years of unplanned reinvention, 2022 is where it gets intentional.
The future will continue to be full of opportunities and challenges.
Climate change. Digital disruption. Global shortages and supply chain issues. We'll explore more flexible production methods tailored to our customers' needs.
For the ones who are bold enough to seize it, now is the time.
SUBMIT YOUR APPLICATION
During the Master's, we'll look at how this new age of humanity will play out across six areas that currently dominate the corporate world.
The Hyper Island Master's in Digital Management is an open invitation for the ones who are willing to form a robust and holistic response to this new age, embracing the possibilities of the future and make work, work for everyone.
🏝️ Hyper island is a community of change, a business school, and a learning playground.
🕹️ We will bring you into a journey to unlock a new version of yourself, experiment with new behaviours, mindsets and getting the skills in line with the complex future we see at work.
📡 You'll experience first-hand methods and concepts that will keep you up with the speed of transformation and help you drive a world of increasing uncertainty.
💪 We build an environment that will help you rediscover, build, and level up your missing foundations and create your custom path for transformation.
🔥 We will challenge you to solve puzzles, work in teams to overcome obstacles through experimentation and curious exploration.
WHAT TO EXPECT?
STARTS ON JULY 2023
Part-time
9 months (3 core & 3 electives modules)
• 4 full days per module, including weekends
• On-Campus
+ 3-6 months on Industry Research Project (Remote)
FEES & FUNDING
• Singaporeans are eligible up to 70% Funding*
• Fees can be broken up into instalments and paid throughout the program*
📂 *Download the Syllabus for details information on prices, payments and funding criteria
Be challenged to explore cutting edge ideas in an experience impossible to forget
Hyper Island's successful experiential learning methodology is created to be unpredictable and surprising, with plenty of room for failing, building resilience and developing a new way of thinking and leading through play.
Learn from industry leaders and work together on projects for world class companies
Each module is built around a set of participative experiences and projects in which you will solve real problems and explore cutting edge ideas. We will be there to facilitate your exploration and to draw out the powerful lessons, trends, questions and ethical dilemmas.
At Hyper Island, the classic teacher standing in front of a room with students who listen and respond to direction is a thing of the past.
We're serious about hybrid
Here, classrooms coexist as physical and virtual spaces, integrating the best tools currently available into your learning experience
We experiment with different working models and norms, space layouts, while using the best tools and technologies available today to harness collaboration and innovation in a hybrid future.
What will you learn?
On every module, we break down the latest perspectives from innovation, culture, and business transformation
The course is being constantly updated based on the data from the latest academic research and our global business partners that are currently bringing new challenges to our students every year
ACCESS SYLLABUS
MAIN AREAS OF STUDY
Humans or Customers?
CORE MODULE | 4 WEEKS
+ 4 DAYS LIVE EXPERIENCE
Unlock your creative potential and become a 21st-century problem solver. Uncover insights into real human needs to solve complex issues in a creative and innovative way.
“With a healthy dose of optimism, I learnt to be more empathetic, a better listener and embraced ambiguity with my team.”
Swee Lyn, Crew 9
Intelligent Machines
CORE MODULE | 4 WEEKS
+ 4 DAYS LIVE EXPERIENCE
Identify and seize the opportunity to transform your business and create value using emerging technologies.
"I loved learning and trying out all the new tech and tools in a supportive and open-minded environment!”
Wen, Crew 9
Leading Teams
CORE MODULE | 4 WEEKS
+ 4 DAYS LIVE EXPERIENCE
Understand what it means to collaborate and lead teams in the digital age. Explore the project lifecycle and consider projects from a holistic perspective.
“I learnt how to build and lead teams and projects in volatile, technologically advanced and dynamic competitive environment."
Li Hong, Crew 9
INDUSTRY RESEARCH PROJECT (IRP)
CORE MODULE | 6 MONTHS
INDIVIDUAL PROJECT
Deepen your critical thinking and research skills in a professional work context, whilst further developing your theoretical knowledge, skills and employability in line with your chosen career path.
"I’ve learnt to manage my time effectively and learn new concepts and technologies quickly. I’m grateful for the time and support from my peers and the HI faculty to help me on my research journey!"
E. Han, Crew 7
SPECIALIST AREAS TO CHOOSE FROM
Radical Perspectives
FINTECH
ELECTIVE MODULE | 4 WEEKS
+ 4 DAYS LIVE EXPERIENCE
Examine key drivers of change to understand management challenges. Apply what you learn to real problems and opportunities in your own domain.
“The vast applications of both Fintech and blockchain in this module were immense and eye-opening with very well structured content.”
Amritha, Crew 9
Future Scenarios
SMART CITIES
ELECTIVE MODULE | 4 WEEKS
+ 4 DAYS LIVE EXPERIENCE
Sense opportunities, see the big picture and understand the thinking and technologies that are shaping industries and societies – today and tomorrow.
“Using science-fiction as a legit discipline for thinking about the future!”
Jeanne, Crew 9
Business Transformation & Innovation
ELECTIVE MODULE | 4 WEEKS
+ 4 DAYS LIVE EXPERIENCE
Learn from real case studies and prototype your own change experiments. Get the skills you’ll need to lead organizational transformation.
“Culture, change management and people are the most undervalued topics in transformation as they belong to the intangible.”
Gita, Crew 9
Short Specialization Project
ELECTIVE MODULE | 4 WEEKS
+ 4 DAYS LIVE EXPERIENCE
Become the owner of your module learning. With the guidance of the Hyper Island staff, you can dive deeper into a topic of your choice – or start something up.
“I stepped into the shoes of a facilitator and curated my own learning journey experience. Indeed it has given me a different perspective and equipped me with the knowledge of my chosen subject"
Khalil, Crew 9
Who is this programme for?
The programme is designed to help you to transform, explore and adapt during these challenging times.
🎓 The Master of Arts in Digital Management is an executive level, accredited part-time programme designed by Hyper Island that incorporates cutting-edge learning experiences from innovation, business transformation, and digital technology.
👩💻 The programme is suitable for working professionals, entrepreneurs or career shifters who want to reinvent themselves, stretch their thinking and master the world of digital.
What they say....
We have amassed priceless design experience across twenty five years and with thousands of learners.
"I didn't want to be bored with a lot of theoretical stuff. I wanted a modern way of learning"
by Peter Skalberg, Chief Growth Officer, The Idea Lab, and Hyper Island Alumni
"IT'S A PROVOCATIVE WAY OF THINKING. A POWERFUL COMBINATION OF PEOPLE AND IDEAS THAT HELPS YOU TO EVOLVE"
by Mari Maluf, Former Lead, Market Insights Center of Excellence Unilever
"It changed the way I work, and the way I see the world"
by Raziff Lau, Senior Inventor at What If? Innovation, and Hyper Island Alumni
"THE FOCUS GOES BEYOND YOUR ACADEMIC GROWTH, IT'S ALSO ABOUT YOUR PERSONAL GROWTH"
by Amrit Kaur, Project Manager, and Hyper Island Alumni
Latest News
Read moreHow Is AR Transforming Advertising?
Augmenting the world is a concept that us humans have always been fascinated with, even before we called in Augmented Reality (AR). Here are three big ideas and drivers of AR transforming the...
Cultivating An Experimental Mindset
Innovation is a critical component for organisations to stay relevant in a highly volatile and uncertain world. While the word "innovation" may trigger feelings of negativity or the...
Hyper Island Partners Snap to Launch ‘AR Accelerator’ Programme
The first of its kind here in this region, we could not be more excited to announce our partnership with Snap in Asia-Pacific. Augmented Reality (AR) is emerging...
When We Decide to Better Ourselves
Read more from our Guest Contributor, Amrit Kaur, on how being part of the Masters' alumni community sparked off new learnings on “Career Pivots”
