Transform your organisation with Business Agility
Learn the fundamentals of business agility, gain skills for a changing world, and lead your team to deliver greater value.
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Make a difference with Business Agility Foundations
Developed by The Open University in collaboration with the Agile Business Consortium, is your gateway to understanding how business agility can improve performance, create efficient teams, and benefit your organisation.
It equips you with the knowledge, tools, and skills to lead your organisation in adapting, learning, and staying customer-focused, ensuring you deliver exceptional value to your stakeholders.
Who is it for?
- Professionals new to business agility or those with a basic understanding who want to expand their knowledge and develop practical skills for future roles.
- Individuals struggling to understand how to survive and thrive in a volatile, uncertain, complex, and ambiguous (VUCA) world.
- Those wishing to broaden their skillset and expand their Continuing Professional Development (CPD).
What are the Benefits?
- Understand the culture and characteristics needed to support business agility and how they relate to organisations you're familiar with.
- Learn practical approaches to navigate your own business agility journey.
- Focus on delivering value for stakeholders in an environment of collaboration, innovation, and learning.
- Showcase your professional body alignment with digital recognition on your CV and social profiles.
Course details
- Course Level: Introductory
- Course Duration: Approx. 48 hours
- Price: £200
- OU Course Code: YG001
Course Summary
- Describe business agility and how to recognise it.
- Understand the culture and characteristics needed to support business agility and identify how they relate to organisations you are familiar with.
- Consider your own business agility journey and think about approaches that might help.
- Explain the key elements of a framework for business agility.
- Understand the importance of a shift in mindset with a focus on delivering value for stakeholders in an environment of collaboration, innovation, and learning.
Eligibility
- No prior knowledge of business agility required.
- Workplace and/or team-based experience will help you understand the course content in the context of a working organisation (of any size, sector, or industry).
- Past experiences are just as relevant if learners are not currently working.
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