Digital Leaders Programme

The Digital Leaders Programme (DLP) helps digitally ambitious and progressive local non-ICT companies accelerate their digital transformation plans and brings together industry leaders to connect and create a vibrant digital leaders community through these key approaches: 

1. Uplifting the Leadership Mindset – Gain the strategic know-how to chart digital roadmaps and prioritise high-impact projects through guidance.
2. Instilling Confidence to Design & Deliver Digital Projects – Access a network of tech giants and programme partners to embark on projects incorporating emerging technologies for productivity and innovation.
3. Building Self-Sustaining Competencies – Support to develop and strengthen enterprise digital capabilities.

To equip enterprises with the know-how and capabilities to sustain digital innovation growth and business digitalisation, DLP provides support to enterprises to:

• chart digital roadmaps to prioritise impactful projects,
• hire in-house digital teams to implement digital transformation plans and
• embark on projects that incorporate emerging technologies, in particular AI, for productivity, innovation and growth

Enterprises keen to find out more about Digital Leaders Programme (DLP) can connect with us via the IMDA DTC Inquiry Form.

The Digital Leaders Accelerator Bootcamp (DLAB) is a modular, hands-on programme that targets the leadership bench of local digitally progressive enterprises to help them build capability and confidence to implement digital transformation. Through structured runs led by appointed partners, enterprises will receive expert guidance and support to transform digital vision into successful implementation to drive tangible business outcomes.

Bootcamp Key Stages

Over the course of the bootcamp, Digital Leaders will work through four key stages alongside IMDA and its DLAB partners:

1. Identify High-Impact Opportunities – Enterprises will identify their priority business challenges and define a clear problem statement with measurable goals.
2. Designing the Right AI Solutions – Enterprises will assess possible digital approaches and tech tools, evaluate costs and benefits, and develop an implementation plan.
3. Deliver Early-Value AI Solutions – With guidance from trusted tech experts, enterprises will develop and test small-scale, viable AI solutions using accessible digital tools and data to deliver AI confidence projects. These projects can be implemented in under three months to demonstrate the early value of AI before enterprises scale up deployment.
4. Committing to Digital Transformation – Enterprises will develop an implementation roadmap with clear milestones and performance indicators to scale AI adoption and guide their AI transformation journey. This process includes identifying the core digital competencies required and engaging in structured discussions with IMDA to explore tailored support options for establishing in-house digital teams.

Upon completion of the bootcamp, enterprises will be equipped with:

1. Greater understanding of critical topics covering Business (e.g. Process Redesign, Cost-Benefit Analysis, Resource Planning) and Technology (e.g. Data Management, AI tools and applications, and Cybersecurity) to implement digital transformation.
2. An actionable digital roadmap with measurable business outcomes to guide the next phase of digital transformation journey.
3. Viable AI solutions to tackle specific business challenges.

Interested enterprises can reach out directly to our partners to begin:

• Boston Consulting Group
• EY-Parthenon

More partners to be onboarded.

Business entities that meet the following requirements are eligible to participate in DLP and DLAB, with funding support:

• ACRA-registered, taxable, and operating in Singapore;
• Minimum of 30 percent local shareholding;
• Non-ICT companies who are keen to invest in in-house digital capabilities as part of business strategy;
• Already have basic digital processes in place and have ambition to embark on larger-scale digital transformation projects.