Organizational Design

 Leading Organizations in the Digital Age

The goal of the program is to reflect on current organizational forms, find a suitable structure for your own unit and implement agile tools based on your leadership style.

Step 1 - Agile Leadership (4-week online course)

Agility is not only a concept for organizations, but also a mindset for every individual. It is about fast adaptation to changing circumstances and focusing on people and their needs. It is about creating space for innovation and creativity. Knowledge about agile organizations also opens new opportunities for you:

• You have the skills to co-create a work place that suits you best.
• You can make a difference in your team and achieve your goals.
• You can have more fun at work.

After completing this 1-month course, you will have covered the following topics: Why agility? The agile mindset. Designing for agile organizations. Implementing agility. Further details
 

Step 2 – Organizational design (3-day in-class module)

This module is designed to deepen your knowledge. What you can expect:

• You discover the implications of the modern business environment and gain an understanding of the principles of agile organization design, its potentials and restrictions
• You learn about different levels of digitization and how to use business strategies and models
• You understand the evolvement of classic business administration by digital economics, the internet business and how to make digital business strategies executable
• You get an overview of agile working methods and tools like business model canvas, SCRUM board, lean start-up and design thinking.

After these 3 days, you will have tools to redesign your organization and know how business management needs to adopt to a digital reality.

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