Explore an agile people-centric framework for business agility

How should organisations optimise for success in complex, uncertain environments?

On this three-week course, you’ll discover an agile, people-centric framework to understand the elements needed for business agility and the power of agile teams to improve performance and deliver better customer value.

Use business agility and agile teams to improve performance and customer value

You’ll learn about the characteristics of people-centric agile organisations using a business agility framework and consider some of the structures adopted by agile organisations, with a focus on agile teams.

As team working is the recognised work model for many organisations, you’ll learn about team relationships, dynamics and dysfunctions, and the conditions needed for high-performing teams. You’ll also find out how a network of collaborative teams with appropriate autonomy for decision-making can outperform more traditional organisational structures.

Learn what it takes to become an agile organisation alongside industry experts

By the end of the course, you will be able to consider the characteristics of an agile organisation and ways to build business agility through teamwork. Learning from the specialists at The Open University and the Agile Business Consortium, you’ll also be able to discuss elements of successful team-working and how empowered, collaborative teams can increase business agility and deliver more value.

What topics will you cover?

A framework for business agility
Agile organisational structures; recognising the power of teams
The importance of relationships, group dynamics, autonomy, and collaboration in creating high-performing agile teams

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What will you achieve?

By the end of the course, you‘ll be able to...

Describe the characteristics of an agile organisation
Identify ways to build business agility through teamwork
Discuss elements of successful team working and how empowered, collaborative teams can increase business agility and deliver more value

Who is the course for?

This course is for anyone new to business agility or those with a basic understanding who want to know more. Some workplace and/or team-based experience will help you understand the content of the course in the context of a working organisation (of any size, sector, or industry). It’s particularly suitable for:

Those who want to know how they can develop their own practical business agility for future roles.
Those struggling to understand how to survive and thrive in a VUCA (volatile, uncertain, complex, and ambiguous) world.
Those wishing to broaden their skillset and expand their Continuing Professional Development.

Who will you learn with?

Rod Willis M.Sc. MBA

Rod Willis is a Professional Executive Coach and Business Agility expert. He is an Agile Business Consortium Scrum Master who supports the agile community through conferences, courses and online tools

Who developed the course?

The Open University

As the UK’s largest university, The Open University (OU) supports thousands of students to achieve their goals and ambitions via supported distance learning, helping to fit learning around professional and personal life commitments.

Established
1969
Location
Milton Keynes, UK
World ranking
Top 510Source: Times Higher Education World University Rankings 2020

Agile Business Consortium

The Agile Business Consortium is the global professional body for Business Agility, with unrivalled expertise in the field. A UK based not-for-profit organisation and the brains behind AgilePM®, AgileBA®, AgilePgM® and AgileDS™ - committed to advancing business agility worldwide.

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