Course Content

Strategic Agility – Transition Now

Setting your vision and strategy, and then pursuing it no longer keeps an organization competitive. In these crucial times, business demands necessitate organizations possessing the continuous alertness and agility to renew their business strategies.

Organizations have traditionally responded to change through strategic planning and the foresight offered by models, or through corporate merger or acquisitions and an entrepreneurial drive. Today's change is both rapid–where mergers and acquisitions can provide a response, but also complex (in the sense that it results from multiple hard to forecast systemic interactions) – where controlled strategic planning can cause stagnation because change is faster and unpredictable. Today’s rapid changing business climate demands organizations to possess strategic agility.

Strategic Agility’s Definition

The ability to accurately anticipate future trends and consequences accurately, recognize strategic opportunities for change, create competitive breakthrough strategies and continuously adjust and adapt strategic direction in core businesses with new business models and innovative ways to create value for the organization.

Strategic Agility: the Key enabling Capabilities

1. Strategic Sensitivity: both the alertness of perception and the intensity of awareness and attention,

2. Resource Fluidity: the internal capability to reconfigure business systems and redeploy resources rapidly with effective communications to move from strategy formation to execution,

3. Collective Commitment: It requires sensing and responding to change at the edges of an organization through empowered participatory decentralized and networked resources providing the ability of the top team to make bold decisions –fast, without being bogged in “win-lose” politics at the top.

Who should attend:

• Executives

• Directors

• Managers

• Team Leaders

• Business Professionals.

Objectives

• Use a Socratic Approach to Get to the Heart of a Challenge

• Discover and Apply New Principles of Thinking

• Break through Barriers to Innovation

• Awareness of Different Thinking Styles

• Expand Thinking Capacities

• Comprehend How Other People Think and Use This Knowledge to Your Advantage

• Exercise Intellectual Empathy to Think Things through from Someone Else’s Perspective

• Challenge Assumptions

• Find Out What You Know and What You Don’t Know