Doctor of Professional Practice in Business Transformation

Teesside University

Tailored for established business professionals, the Doctor of Professional Practice in Business Transformation is meticulously crafted for individuals in both the private and public sectors, often in senior or executive positions. It caters to those who wish to elevate their careers through a doctoral degree while maintaining their professional commitments.During the course, business professionals are empowered to introduce novel concepts and address contemporary business challenges through innovation and transformation, using action-research approaches for organisational change. Students make an original contribution to business practices to move them forward and draw on theories from different academic disciplines to synthesise diverse ideas. There are opportunities to connect theory with real-world application using an action-research framework, allowing students to create and apply innovative solutions to current business challenges.The course enables business professionals to:strategically review organisations to identify new, evidence-based, value-creating, business transformation opportunitiescreate new forms of actionable knowledge through collaborative researchintroduce new ideas to solve contemporary business problems in an innovative and transformational waymake an original contribution to business practices by creating solutions and introducing changes in the workplace.