Diploma Programme in Digital Transformation

Ting Li is a professor of digital business at RSM, and the academic director of the MSc Business Information Management programme, and of the Erasmus Centre for Data Analytics. Her teaching expertise covers information strategy, digital commerce, social and mobile analytics, and social networks. Before joining the academic world, she worked for General Electric and IBM in e‐business in supply chains, web services, and grid computing. Ting’s research interest focuses on the strategic use of information and its economic impacts on consumer behaviour and company strategy. She has worked with Shell, KPMG, PwC, Accenture, Coolblue, Wehkamp, Zelf, Tweakers, Shop2Market, Dutch Railways, and RET among others.

Ferdinand Jaspers is programme director at the Erasmus Centre for Entrepreneurship. His teaching and consultancy activities focus on innovation leadership. Based on his expertise at the intersection of strategy, innovation and entrepreneurship, he teaches courses, masterclasses and boot camps on corporate entrepreneurship, innovation excellence and entrepreneurial culture. With a rigorous academic perspective, Ferdinand helps entrepreneurs move beyond approaches such as lean start-up, design thinking, business modelling and effectuation. Together with experts from DSM and ING, Ferdinand founded the ECE Innovation Leadership executive programme. He holds a PhD from RSM. 

Eric van Heck is a professor of information management and markets at RSM. His research concentrates on business architectures and digital platforms for dealing with complex societal and business challenges. At the moment he works on Auction Markets, Big Data & Analytics, Digital Business & Architecture, and Digital Work. Research is carried out in collaboration with innovative companies and universities in Brazil, China, Europe, Indonesia, and USA. He is an active member of the Erasmus Center for Data Analytics and the Erasmus Center for Future Energy Business.

Frieda van Belle is an independent consultant and guest lecturer in digital and data transformation. She coaches management teams in the use of technology to enable business growth and help teams make change happen. Earlier, Frieda was a partner at digital strategists SparkOptimus, helping companies to implement digital and data strategies. Frieda holds a PhD in physics from Cambridge University.

Martijn Rademakers is a visiting faculty member at RSM and adjunct professor of corporate strategy at Amsterdam Business School. He is also managing director of consultancy Sollcorp, and founding board member of TONOS, a start-up for planning capacity and logistics for healthcare organisations. He is experienced in education and consultancy for bridging theory and practice of business innovation, organisational change and strategic leadership. He researches the interconnectedness of strategy, organisation and leadership. He is an author of several books; Corporate Universities: Drivers of the Learning Organization is published in five languages, and he is editor of the special edition Journal of Creating Value (Nov 2019).

Dr Juan P. Madiedo is an associate professor at Rotterdam School of Management, Erasmus University (RSM). He obtained his PhD in business studies from IE Business School, IE University in Spain. In his research, Juan focuses on the role of managers in the performance of the operations of the firm. Specifically, he investigates how different types of experiences accumulated by managers in their role, influence the way in which organisations accumulate and leverage different sources of knowledge at their disposal. Before joining RSM, Juan held positions at IE University in Spain and Universidad de los Andes in Colombia and was a visiting scholar at INCAE Business School in Costa Rica. 

Philipp Cornelius is an associate professor at RSM. Philipp’s research interests are in new product development, innovation management and crowd-driven innovation. He investigates related questions in large-sample econometric studies using original data from organisations and innovation platforms. He holds a PhD in management science and innovation from the UCL School of Management, University College London, and a BSc in information systems from the University of Mannheim, Germany.

Dainis Zegners is assistant professor in the department of Technology and Operations Management at RSM. He holds a PhD in management from LMU Munich and an MSc-equivalent diploma in economics from the University of Bonn. He applies data analytics, machine learning, text mining and AI to research digital platforms and human decision-making, and his research has been published in top-tier journals. 

Thomas Blekman is an affiliate clinical professor in entrepreneurship and innovation with an emphasis on change management and leadership at RSM. As an entrepreneur, Thomas co-founded the Global School for Entrepreneurship, where he is the dean. At his University of Applied Sciences, Blekman is the architect of a fully-fledged BSc in Entrepreneurship and Innovation. Thomas is a whirlwind who brings incredible amounts of creativity and passion into his teaching, and effortlessly moves back and forth between academia and practice.

Sameer Mehta is assistant professor in RSM’s department of Technology and Operations Management. He holds a PhD in management science and an MSc (Intg.) in mathematics and scientific computing. He specialises in technology platforms, data markets, privacy and cybersecurity, and uses optimisation, game theory and econometrics methods. Sameer’s work has been published in top-tier journals.