Washington University in St. Louis
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AGI510: Business Agility Foundations (21 hrs)

Course summary:

Increase your competitive advantage with our ICAgile-certified Business Agility Foundations course. Learn to embrace change and innovation in a dynamic and fast-moving world, while building collaborative teams and differentiating your organization for customers. Explore the mindset, approaches, and skills needed to bring continuous improvement into your work and adapt to ever-evolving business landscapes. Join now and transform your organization with the latest agile principles and practices.

Course outline:
Setting the Scene for Business Agility
  • Awareness: The Need for Business Agility
  • Compelling Vision, Focus and Clarity of Purpose
Enabling Business Agility
  • New Ways of Thinking
  • New and Differentiating Behaviors
Implementing and Sustaining Business Agility
  • Frameworks, Tools and Techniques
  • Business Agility as the New Normal

Learning outcomes:

  • Articulate the drivers for business agility in the economy in general and your business environment specifically
  • Demonstrate techniques for team collaboration and customer focus as part of the necessary mindset shift
  • Develop a compelling vision for success, analyze the impacts of change on the wide community of stakeholders and appraise which approach and tools to use given different contexts
  • Outline key new ways of thinking for both individuals and organizations and map them to their potential impacts on value generation
  • Formulate and demonstrate differentiating behaviors
  • Appraise and use a variety of frameworks, tools and techniques
  • Illustrate your understanding of business agility and construct your own personal action plan for applying the ideas from the class in your workplace
Type:
Virtual
 
Day & Time:
Mon & Weds
Jan 6 - Jan 29, 2025
5:00 to 7:30PM
 
Enrollment Deadline:
Dec 30, 2024
 
Location:
Zoom
 
Course Fee(s):
$1,495
 
CEUs:
2.1
 
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Enrollment Deadline is Dec 30, 2024 at 5 PM CST. Beyond this date, please call 314-935-4444 to register.

Parking and refreshments are provided.

CANCELLATION POLICY
A full refund will be given when a registrant cancels more than five (5) business days prior to the start of the class. Cancellations received within 5 business days of the start of the class and no-shows will be billed in full. Another person may be substituted at any time at no additional charge.

A request to transfer a class to a future date can only occur if the request is more than 5 business days prior to the start of class.  Otherwise, the request will be considered a cancellation and the policy will apply.
Type:
Virtual
 
Day & Time:
Mon & Weds
Aug 18 - Sept 10, 2025
5:00 to 7:30PM
 
Enrollment Deadline:
August 11, 2025
 
Location:
Zoom
 
Course Fee(s):
$1,495
 
CEUs:
2.1
 
add2cart
 

Enrollment Deadline is August 11th, 2025 at 5 PM CST. Beyond this date, please call 314-935-4444 to register.

Parking and refreshments are provided.

CANCELLATION POLICY
A full refund will be given when a registrant cancels more than five (5) business days prior to the start of the class. Cancellations received within 5 business days of the start of the class and no-shows will be billed in full. Another person may be substituted at any time at no additional charge.

A request to transfer a class to a future date can only occur if the request is more than 5 business days prior to the start of class.  Otherwise, the request will be considered a cancellation and the policy will apply.
Accrediting Associations:
  • ICAgile (International Consortium for Agile)
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