Building Strategic Agility

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Course Description

Swift, dramatic change across markets today is making it increasingly difficult for organizations and their people to keep pace. Business models that worked well in the past are at a breaking point, and incremental adjustments will not suffice. Speed, complexity and digitization are creating greater uncertainty, competition and risk, but are also creating greater opportunities for agile organizations prepared to proactively shape the market. Capturing value today while also looking for the next advantage demands agility. Agile leaders are the greatest levers for the future success of an organization. 

Duke CE’s Building Strategic Agility course is designed to help leaders become more agile and capitalize on the new rules of strategy for themselves and their organizations. This course is available for individuals and is also customizable for cohorts at your organization to meet your unique business needs. Learners can experience the program in a variety of ways, from self-paced online learning to a customized and flexible hybrid model consisting of online course modules supplemented by tailored virtual or in-person sessions with subject-matter experts to ensure the application of learning into the workplace.

Building Strategic Agility is a CPD certified course.

What You’ll Learn

Learn to become a more agile leader to quickly capitalize on new opportunities afforded by today’s fast-changing marketplace.

  • Understand complexity and synchronize the speed at which markets, organizations and people change and evolve.
  • Learn how to sense and act in real time using purpose and a customer-centric frame to identify new arenas and pivot quickly.
  • Balance the core and edge by using key metrics and data science to make faster, smarter decisions.
  • Learn new frames, tools and orientations to drive agility through culture, teams and networks.

“I highly recommend this comprehensive course to any professional who is up to the challenge of stretching and expanding the boundaries of what you think you already know. The course structure, pace, and materials are created to stick with you and influence your current and future mindset, behavior and actions as a strategic and agile leader.”

– Babette Ten Haken, Founder & President, One Millimeter Mindset® Speaking & Consulting

Building Strategic Agility

This Course Includes

  • 10 interactive video modules
  • 8 expert instructors
  • 8-10 hours of total effort
  • 9 application guides
  • 7 practice exercises
  • 9 downloadable guides
  • 1 certificate of completion
  • CPD certified course

Course Content

Hover over the information icon (i) of each module for more information.

Meet the Faculty

Rita McGrath

Rita McGrath

Market

Rita has been central to our Building Strategic Agility course because she is one of Top 10 world-renowned thinkers on the topic of strategy and continues to set the pace in providing leaders the next set of perspectives, tools and techniques they need to compete in today’s disruptive world.

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Hari Nair

Hari Nair

Market

Hari’s early work as part of Clayton Christensen’s groundbreaking consulting firm Innosight, coupled with his experience working as an executive at companies like Kimberly Clark and Sime Darby, make him an asset to the Building Strategic Agility online course. He brings a provocative and practical approach to customer-centric innovation.

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N Venkat Venkatraman

Venkat Venkatraman

Market

Venkat’s research, writing and real-world examples bring a fresh and comprehensive look at digital transformation, what he calls the greatest leadership challenge of the next decade.

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Scott Gamester

Scott Gamester

Organisation

Scott’s background and passion as a data scientist and real-world experience using data to change the way companies make decisions and interact with customers enables him to bring a fresh, application-oriented perspective on data science for all leaders — not just the “data types.”

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Kathy Pearson

Kathy Pearson

Organisation

Kathy’s work with Decision Strategies International, the firm that brought Daniel Kahneman’s Pulitzer Prize winning work on behavioral decision-making into the corporate sphere, combined with her work on scenario planning and optionality, enables her to identify the most important aspects of making faster, smarter decisions and share them in our course.

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Scott Koerwer

Scott Koerwer

Organisation

Scott’s current work as Vice Dean for Graduate Studies at the Geisinger Commonwealth School of Medicine, where they are working to build more agile practices and teams, plus his real-world experience in strategy and business, positions him well to share practical tips and research on building agile teams.

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Joe Perfetti

Organisation

Joe’s experience across industries and depth of knowledge in the areas of strategy and finance, coupled with his creative nature, position him well to redefine business metrics and create a new dashboard for the future. Joe’s cutting-edge work is helping businesses learn how to be more forward-looking and “pre-active” in the market.

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Michael Chavez

Michael Chavez

Human

Michael is passionate about “rehumanizing leadership.” By engaging people around a purpose, shared meaning and empathy, he believes leaders can create the foundation for greater sustainability in a world that is more complex and unpredictable than ever. Michael’s research currently focuses on how leaders can most effectively shape, institutionalize and lead from a shared organizational purpose.

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