Certificate of Achievement
Estefania Cristina Simon-Sasyk
has completed the following course:
Introduction to Strategic Doing: An Agile Approach to Strategy
Purdue University
This online course explored the basics of Strategic Doing, an agile approach to strategy. The course covered topics that included how value is increasingly being created in networks rather than hierarchies, how strategic conversations are where strategy emerges, and how strategies can be guided and adjusted.
3 weeks, 2 hours per week
Dr. Scott Hutcheson
Associate Director, Purdue Agile Strategy Lab and Professor of Collaboration & Agile Strategy
Purdue University
Transcript
Learning outcomes
- Identify examples from your own experiences that illustrate this shift from hierarchies to networks
- Demonstrate an understanding of how strategy is different in networks than it is in hierarchies
- Recognize characteristics of network-based thinking
- Apply network-thinking to address a problem or opportunity that is important in your community or organization.
- Recognize ways for building trust at scale
- Consider how to build trust in a network you are a part of
- Understand the four basic questions a strategy needs to answer
- Practice using these four questions to design a basic strategy.
- Understand how strategy can be agile and iterative
- Translate strategic opportunities into a strategic outcomes.
Syllabus
- Today, both market value and social value are being created in open, loosely-joined networks, rather than the command-and-control hierarchies of yesterday.
- Traditional strategy tools, like strategic planning, don’t work in this new environment
- Doing complex work in networks requires approaches to strategy that are more agile and a style of leadership that is collaborative
- Purdue University has developed a new approach to strategy called Strategic Doing
- This course provided an introduction to Strategic Doing
Issued on 6th August 2018
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