Course Description

Business Agility Foundations explores the mindset, approaches and skills you need to bring innovation and continuous improvement into your work. In today’s dynamic and fast-moving world, the tools that once served us well don’t apply. Now, change is constant, disruption is an expectation and innovation is a competitive advantage. This ICAgile-certified course focuses on building collaborative teams and differentiating your organization for customers.

Course Outline

• Setting the Scene for Business Agility
  • Awareness: The Need for Business Agility
  • Compelling Vision, Focus and Clarity of Purpose
• Enabling Business Agility
  • New Ways of Thinking
  • New and Differentiating Behaviors
• Implementing and Sustaining Business Agility
  • Frameworks, Tools and Techniques
  • Business Agility as the New Normal

Learner Outcomes

At the end of this course, you will be able to:

• Articulate the drivers for business agility in the economy in general and your business environment specifically
• Demonstrate techniques for team collaboration and customer focus as part of the necessary mindset shift
• Develop a compelling vision for success, analyze the impacts of change on the wide community of stakeholders and appraise which approach and tools to use given different contexts
• Outline key new ways of thinking for both individuals and organizations and map them to their potential impacts on value generation
• Formulate and demonstrate differentiating behaviors
• Appraise and use a variety of frameworks, tools and techniques
• Illustrate your understanding of business agility and construct your own personal action plan for applying the ideas from the class in your workplace

Notes

Accrediting Associations

• Project Management Institute (PMI) 21.0 PDU