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Business Agility & Innovation Foundations


Description
This is an ICAgile accredited course, learners who successfully complete the course requirements will receive an ICP-BAF professional certification.

Kick start your journey into Business Agility and Innovation with this course, and take your first steps to mastery. You'll learn about the foundation practices of building a resilient organisation through team dynamics, adaptive planning, value based development, and iterative feedback cycles. You'll deep dive into the innovators mindset, and complete the course with sufficient knowledge to begin practising.

Business Agility and Innovation are two of the most critical business skills - learn how to create the environment and skills in your business to increase your agility and create high value innovation.

People at every level and in practically every role in today's organizations are required to focus on customer delight, and bring innovation and continuous improvement into their work. This is a hard challenge and one that requires either building new muscles or limbering up muscles we may not use often. This highly experiential set of learning outcomes equips participants with new knowledge, tools, and techniques to implement immediately. The ICAgile Certified Professional in Business Agility Foundations (ICP-BAF) is intended to jumpstart the organizational and individual transformation towards a more responsive, value-driven reality.

The course is approximately 20 hours of learning time, and includes 10 hours of instructor classrooms spread over four virtual learning sessions. Join and learn at your own pace.
Content
  • Section 1
  • Introduction
  • Section Goals
  • The Business Evolution
  • VUCA case study
  • VUCA Response
  • Innovation introdution
  • Reflection Activity
  • Strategic Polarities
  • Balancing Types of Innovation
  • Home Depot Case Study
  • Home Depot Reflection
  • Section 2
  • Core Concepts
  • Design your Vision, Mission and Purpose
  • Upload your Logical Levels of Change
  • Section 3
  • Frameworks and Design Thinking
  • Design Thinking Experiment
  • Lean Startup
  • Lean Startup Case Study
  • Lean and Systems Thinking
  • Lean Systems Thinking - Applied
  • Scrum
  • Scrum Artifacts
  • Scrum Reflection
  • Kanban
  • Kanban Example Board 1
  • Response 1
  • Kanban Board Example 2
  • Response 2
  • Draw Your Own!
  • Canvases
  • Canvases Task and resources
  • Section 4
  • Measuring Agility
  • Measuring Agility
  • Measure Your Product
  • Measuring the Increment
  • Measure the Iteration
  • Section 5
  • Mindset
  • Mastery and Mindset
  • Evaluate Your Mindset
  • Agility Values
  • Mental models and Psychological Safety
  • Mindset and Environment
  • Team Charter
  • Your values
  • Polarities Introduction
  • How to Balance Paradoxes and Polarities
  • Influence and Hierarchy
Completion rules
  • All units must be completed
  • Leads to a certificate with a duration: Forever