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Foundations & Scale

Business Agility Foundations

Adopt the language of leaders. Make the case for Business Agility through the seven pillars of the Enterprise Business Agility model.

Duration
1 day (in-person) or 5 × ½ days (virtual)
Certification
ICAgile
Format
In-house, on-demand
About this course

What you'll do, who you'll become

Whether you’re a business leader looking to embark on a business agility transformation or a team coach looking to build your credentials and knowledge in this contemporary transformation space, this course will enable you to adopt the language of leaders and convey the case for Business Agility.

Business Agility Foundations is a 5 half-day (virtual) or 3-day (in person) experience which focuses on the seven essential pillars of the Enterprise Business Agility strategy model, intended to jumpstart organisational and individual transformation towards a more responsive, value-driven reality.

Whether in person or virtual, this course is a highly interactive combination of instructor-led discussions and team-based exercises. It tackles questions across different angles of organisational change and leverages in room experience and real world stories.

You will walk away with a review of your own organisation, a growth plan / action items to help improve your organisation’s Business Agility, along with the language, tools and practices to become a change leader. Equipping you to help your organisation to apply the vision, strategy and patterns for enterprise business agility to address the challenges faced in a volatile, uncertain, complex, and ambiguous (VUCA) world.

Course outline

What we'll cover

What is Business Agility: Complexity theory, VUCA world, Business life cycle model
Leadership & Culture: Leader as a coach, Servant Leadership, Motivation and Empowerment
Customer Seat at the Table: Hypothesis-driven product development, Personas, Customer journey, Empathy map, Growth mindset
Metrics: Leading Indicators, Outcomes over Output, Balancing Competing Values
Sustaining the Change: Lean Change Management, Motivation and Engagement

Certification & outcomes

This is an IC Agile accredited course. Participants will receive the Certified Professional in Business Agility Foundations (ICP-BAF) certification from IC Agile upon successful completion of this course Note: To obtain the ICP-BAF certification, participants will be assessed through a combination of exercises, activities, and discussion that demonstrate an understanding of how to apply the learning outcomes.

Who is this for

Who should attend

This course is recommended for Executives, Business Leaders, Tribe Leads, Value Stream Leads, Product Owners, PMOs, Delivery Managers, Transformation Leads, Change Managers.

FAQs

Common questions

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