Digital & Analytics

Thinking and building the digital future

With the Digital & Analytics axis, HEC Liège places digital transformation at the heart of its teaching, research and social service missions.

Our ambition: to develop a responsible, inclusive and value-creating digital environment, at the service of organizations and society.

This cross-functional area is supported by the Digital Transformation Office, which coordinates four complementary units: 

• The Digital Lab, the service platform within HEC Liège that promotes partnerships for conducting cutting-edge research and training in digital technologies. Through its activities, the Digital Lab fosters collaboration between academics and researchers, and field players.
• The Digital Experience (DE) unit focuses on the promotion of new teaching techniques and methods and the making of multimedia productions for mainly pedagogical purposes, and to a lesser extent, as a support to communication and promotion campaigns.
• The Operational Excellence Program (OEP) unit rethinks and transforms the key processes within HEC Liège by developing an integrated and intelligent information system that will generate more efficiency in the operational, decisional, and administrative management of our internal organization.
• The IT support team (UDI) is constantly making the school's infrastructure evolve to ensure maximum performance of IT services for staff and students. In addition to supporting the solving of IT issues, the UDI also offers assistance to users in the purchase of hardware and installation of software.

Training in essential digital skills

HEC Liège supports its entire community in developing digital skills:

• transforming pedagogical practices and carefully integrating digital technologies;
• critical reflection on the use of artificial intelligence, particularly generative intelligence;
• development of in-house digital tools designed to simplify processes and enhance the user experience.

Initial training

The innovation processes undergone by companies are getting faster and faster. Recruiters look for graduates who are able to look at a problem under various angles, while having a global vision. That is why HEC Liège and the Faculty of Applied Sciences joined to offer a transdisciplinary program, the transdisciplinary Master in Digital Business, that allows combining two in-depth trainings and getting two diplomas.

Executive Education

This approach is also reflected in a range of continuing training courses, including a Certificate in Artificial Intelligence, aimed at professionals wishing to anticipate the impact of AI in their organizations.

Innovating through digital transformation research

The digital transformation of our society is one of the transversal themes around which the scientific output of HEC Research is structured. The theme is approached from an interdisciplinary point of view, reflected by the variety of HEC Liège research fields that contribute to it, including aspects linked to changing work organization (LENTIC), the integration of augmented reality and virtual reality technologies into business operations (SIG Lab), data-sharing ecosystems for the development of smart territories (Smart City Institute).

Digital research at HEC Liège is supported by the Digital Lab.

Key themes include

• digital responsibility and its integration into corporate strategies ;
• the use ofAI and virtual reality to develop human skills such as public speaking.

This work gives rise to scientific publications, concrete tools for organizations and doctoral projects.

Contributing to enlightened digital citizenship

Beyond the university, HEC Liège is committed to public debate on digital transformation.

The Digital Lab regularly organizes conferences, debates and open events around the ethical, social and educational challenges of digital technology, and disseminates these reflections via accessible formats such as the "Échos Numériques" podcast.

Impact Digital

• 10,000 users of digital platforms developed by HEC Liège ;
• 20 educational projects incorporating digital innovations ;
• 100+ participants in digital training courses.

Download the latest "Digital Transformation" annual report