Agile Organisation: Strategies for Business Resilience (Coursera)

Agile Organisation: Strategies for Business Resilience (Coursera)

Prepare for tomorrow’s challenges by building a truly resilient and agile organisation. What you learn in this course:

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What you learn in this course:

  • Strategic Resilience:

Explore the concepts and frameworks needed to ensure your organisation can adapt to a shifting business context.
Build an understanding of agility loops, scenario planning and how to approach difficult decision-making through uncertain times.

  • Operational Resilience:

Increase your awareness of the potential sources of risk in your supply chains and how you manage finance and information.
Discover how risk-management decisions are made within a complex adaptive system, and how they can be applied in your own, personally designed, management experiment.

  • Behavioural Resilience:

Learn about team dynamics and how your role affects the people you manage.
Focus on your individual responsibilities as a leader and build the capabilities to motivate your people during difficult times.
This course is part of the Future Ready Company Specialization.

What you'll learn

  • Strategic Resilience: Explore the concepts and frameworks needed to ensure your organisation can adapt to a shifting business context
  • Operational Resilience: Increase your awareness of the potential sources of risk in your supply chains and how you manage finance and information.
  • Behavioural Resilience: Learn about team dynamics and how your role affects the people you manage.

Syllabus

Week 1: The Need for Strategic Resilience
This week, we will explore what strategic resilience really means and start discussing the ideas and frameworks you should be implementing to keep your organisation future fit.

Week 2: Techniques for Building Strategic Resilience
We look at building strategic resilience through the lens of agility loops, scenario planning and new approaches to difficult choices in uncertain times.

Week 3: Operational Resilience - Tools and Practices
This week, we will focus on the practical tools and practices for building resilience, firstly by studying the supply chain and then the risks involved in finance and information management.

Week 4: Operational Resilience - Creating a Resilient Organisation
This week, we will look at some key examples of how risk management decisions are made within a complex adaptive system. We will then look at how you can design your own management experiment.

Week 5: A Resilient and Agile Environment
This week, we will begin our look into behavioural resilience, focusing on team dynamics and how your role affects the people you manage.

Week 6: Behavioural Resilience and Agility – Your Role
This week, we will dive deeper into the subject of behavioural resilience within the workplace, focusing on individual responsibilities and your role as a leader.

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