Agile Organisation: Strategies for Business Resilience

Go to Course: https://www.coursera.org/learn/agile-organisation-strategies-for-business-resilience

Introduction

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.

We look at building strategic resilience through the lens of agility loops, scenario planning and new approaches to difficult choices in uncertain times.

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.

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.

This week, we will begin our look into behavioural resilience, focusing on team dynamics and how your role affects the people you manage.

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.