Certificate in Strategic Agility

Are you strategically agile and prepared to thrive in a fast-paced world dominated by change, international competition, constantly evolving technology and social media?

Build your capacity with Schulich ExecEd’s strategic agility training to engage the future in innovative and sustainable ways, balance analytical and intuitive thinking, harness strategic conversations to generate solutions and implement new ideas successfully across your organization.

You’ll develop the ability to lead strategic agility and create new narratives that introduce people to change alternatives, move them through refining a direction and successfully implement effective ideas. Learn to integrate intuitive thinking and overcome the curses of success – the tyranny of the “core business,” strategic myopia and resource imprisonment – to prepare you and your organization for a truly sustainable future.

This program is designed for business, government and non-profit executives who are responsible for business planning and organizational strategy. Leaders who want to expand their understanding of their organization, explore alternative structures, and develop their strategic agility.

What You’ll Learn

• Basic elements of organization structure, strategy and design
• Fundamentals of value and your value proposition
• The role of leaders in guiding the organization under uncertainty
• Leveraging virtual/networked organizations for sustained success
• Modelling strategic agility for successful implementation
• Learning to lead strategic agility so that others want to follow
• Designing organizations for a wiki-world dominated by “netgeners” and social media
• Actively overcoming the “curses” of success: Tunnel vision, The tyranny of the “core business”, Strategic myopia and Resource imprisonment.
• Balance analytical and intuitive thinking.
• Empower people to expand the pool of strategic solutions.
• Implement new ideas successfully across the organization.

The Certificate in Strategic Agility program is five days of study over five months.