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Business Agility Fundamentals

Business Agility Fundamentals teaches organizations to adapt and thrive in volatile environments. The course covers agile concepts, practices, and tools for all organizational levels.

About this course

HOW CAN YOU HELP YOUR ORGANISATION EVOLVE ITS STRUCTURES, PROCESSES, AND MINDSET TO EMBRACE A NEW WAY OF WORKING AND SUSTAIN BUSINESS AGILITY IN A RAPIDLY CHANGING ENVIRONMENT?

As the world changes at an unprecedented pace, imagine if organisations could navigate through change and use it as an opportunity to get better rather than simply getting through. Our Business Agility Fundamentals course explores what it takes to thrive in a complex, uncertain environment.

The business environment today is volatile, and everyone in the organisation needs to be able to adapt to the changing world while ensuring that the organisation’s goals and outcomes are met.

This program will introduce participants at all levels to the essential concepts and practices of business agility, including how organisations, teams, and individuals can adapt and exploit change for competitive advantage, as well as the tools and techniques required to deliver customer and business value.

What you will gain

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The ICAgile Certified Professional – Business Agility Foundations (ICP-BAF) certification is granted on the successful completion of this course.

This course will contribute 14 PMI® professional development units (PDUs) towards your chosen certification (2 Power Skills, 6 Business Acumen and 6 Ways of Working). 

What you will learn

  • The need for business agility.
  • Developing the mindset and culture that business agility instils.
  • Communicating a compelling vision and clarity of purpose.
  • Methods to enhance customer engagement and satisfaction through iterative feedback loops and value-driven product and service delivery.
  • New frameworks, tools and techniques to help implement and sustain business agility.
  • Action plans and tools to accelerate business agility.

What you will need

There are no prerequisites for the Business Agility Fundamentals class.

This course is great for

  • Team members throughout all parts of the organisation adopting agile ways of working.
  • Leaders at any level who are champions of change and wish to drive their people towards greater agility.
  • Anyone looking for a solid grounding in business agility or wanting to bring innovation and continuous improvement into their environment.

Topics covered

Experience Agility 

Business Agility Defined

  • The Future Organisation
  • Knowledge Work vs Task Work
  • The Agile Manifesto
  • Business Agility Drivers

Thinking Different

  • Growth and Benefit Mindsets
  • Cynefin Framework
  • Theory of Constraints
  • Cross Functional Value Focused Teams

Starting with Purpose

  • Initiative Canvas
  • The Question Pitch
  • Value
  • Design Approaches
  • Measure Value and Success
  • Problem Identification

Implementing Business Agility

  • Personal Kanban
  • Iterative and Continuous Workflows
  • Build your Team’s Way of Working

Sustaining Business Agility

  • Lean, Waste and Kaizen
  • Business Agility Action Plan
  • Powerful Questions
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