Digital Transformation and Business Agility

Course Description

Welcome to an innovative and comprehensive course that will revolutionize your approach to digital transformation and business agility. This unique offering provides a curated selection of essential concepts and techniques crucial for defining dynamic capabilities that will digitally transform your business. The course goes beyond theory, guiding you through the process of aligning your organization to deliver these capabilities using Agile at Scale.

What You'll Learn

• Dynamic Capabilities: Understand the difference between operational and dynamic capabilities and how they shape your business strategy.
• Fitness Landscapes and Strategic Foresight: Learn to navigate complex business environments and anticipate future trends.
• Agile Organizational Strategies and Capability Roadmapping: Develop skills to create flexible, responsive organizational structures.
• Scaled Lean-Agile organization strategies: Implement new capabilities within your current capacity.
• OKR Planning and Execution Cycle: Drive growth through the Lean Analytics cycle.
• Business Agility Across the Product Lifecycle: Apply Agile, DevOps, and Lean methodologies throughout product development.
• Managing Product Teams at Scale: Master the art of leading and coordinating large-scale product development efforts.

Prerequisites

This course is designed as an introductory level program and does not have any specific prerequisites. However, a basic understanding of business concepts and a genuine interest in digital transformation would be beneficial.

Course Content

• Concept of organizational capabilities (operational and dynamic)
• Refining strategy and key technology concepts
• Business agility framework
• Types of innovations across product and market lifecycle
• Objectives and Key Results (OKRs) for team alignment at scale
• Trade-offs between engineering, team autonomy, and disruptive technologies
• Leadership strategies for modern product and transformation teams
• Requirement gathering, decision frameworks, and design implementation
• Roadmap creation for digital transformation

Who This Course Is For

• Business leaders and executives looking to drive digital transformation
• Project managers and team leaders seeking to implement agile methodologies
• Entrepreneurs aiming to build scalable, innovative businesses
• IT professionals wanting to align technology with business strategy
• Anyone interested in understanding the intersection of business strategy and digital innovation

Real-World Application

The skills acquired in this course are directly applicable to real-world business scenarios. Learners will be able to:

• Develop and implement digital transformation strategies in their organizations
• Lead agile teams more effectively and efficiently
• Create and execute product roadmaps aligned with business objectives
• Implement OKRs to drive growth and measure success
• Navigate complex business environments with greater confidence
• Make informed decisions about technology adoption and implementation
• Foster a culture of innovation and continuous improvement within their teams

Conclusion

This course offers a lean, forged pathway to implement change in your own strategy, innovate your program, unit, or business, and seize opportunities to play both offense and defense against disruptive digital technologies. By leveraging the best techniques from the Clark School of Engineering, you'll be well-equipped to lead your organization into the future of digital business.