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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.

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Duration

4-week online course and 3 days on-campus

Participation fee

€ 4,200 incl. all course materials 10% reduction of fee for companies for at least 3 registered participants

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Next start

October 2025

Make Your Move

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. Find further details on the Online Program "Agile Leadership".

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.

Would you like to dive deeper into the subject of digitisation? Apply for the MBA Digital Transformation & Data Science and attend the program Organizational Design and more in the part-time Master of Business Administration. You can also get credit for a continuing education program that has already been completed at WU Executive Academy.

Go to the MBA Digital Transformation & Data Science

From January 1, 2025, the Waff will offer new funding for vocational education and training with digital and/or climate protection-relevant content with the Education Account for Digitalization and Climate Protection! Up to 50% of the tuition fee (max. € 5,000) can be funded, provided that your income is max. € 2,500 net!
Register for our Compact Program today and secure your WAFF funding!

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Schedule

  • Four Week Online Course "Agile Leadership" (with Helga Pattart-Drexler, MA)
    February 9 - March 2, 2026 

  • 3-days in house class

    • Day 1: Digital Economics for Agile Organizations (with Mag. Martin Giesswein)
      March 11, 2026

    • Day 2: Agile Structures in Organizations (Univ.Prof. Patricia Klarner)
      March 12, 2026

    • Day 3: Agile Methods and Tools (Mag. Martin Giesswein)
      March 13, 2026

Target Group

This program brings together participants from different industries who would like to get a thorough understanding of how, why, and when it makes sense to make an organization more agile. You…

  • are interested in new forms of collaboration and in shaping organizational structures.

  • would like to understand the potential of agility and get an overview of new ways of working in different work areas.

Certificate

After completing the course, you will receive a certificate including course details from the WU Executive Academy.

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The WU Vienna University of Economics and Business is one of Europe's leading universities and can look back on 100 years of excellence in executive education. As a university we are commited to high quality standards and independence. We are proud to have received the prestigious triple accreditation from AACSB, AMBA, and EQUIS, which is reflected in the outstanding quality of our executive education. This has also been recognized in international rankings: #36: QS World University Ranking #45: Financial Times Executive MBA Ranking #41: Financial Times European Business School Ranking

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October 2025

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