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.

Bart de Langhe is a visiting faculty member at RSM, and an associate professor of marketing at ESADE in Barcelona. He taught and researched at universities in Europe as well as in the USA and China. He researches the psychology of consumer and managerial decision-making, with an emphasis on data-driven decisions. His research is published in leading academic journals such as Journal of Consumer Research, Journal of Marketing Research, and Management Science, as well as managerial publications such as Harvard Business Review, The Wall Street Journal, and The New York Times. The Marketing Science Institute recognised him as one of the most promising young marketing academics in 2017.

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.

Dr Paolacci is an associate professor in the department of Marketing Management at Rotterdam School of Management, Erasmus University (RSM). He teaches managerial decision-making to various audiences and researches substantive questions in consumer and managerial decision making. His work has been published in leading journals such as Journal of Marketing Research, Management Science and Psychological Science, and has been covered by The Economist, Harvard Business Review, The Wall Street Journal and more. Dr Paolacci sits on the editorial review board of several journals and is currently associate editor for Psychological Science.