DAY 1

Module 1 Principles

• What Is Business Agility?
• Business Agility vs Management
• Real-world Insight
• What Does It Take to have Business Agility?
• Risk and Reward
• Brainstorming: Creating the Future

Exercise: Having a sense of urgency

Module 2 Paradigm Shift

• The Organizational Perspective: Origins and Outcomes
• The Organizational Mindset
• The Entrepreneurial Perspective: Origins and Outcomes
• The Entrepreneurial Mindset
• Old Paradigms Die Hard

Exercise: Shifting your current organisational paradigm

Module 3 Strategic Situational Analysis

• Strategic planning involves analysis of the current situation
• Opportunity Assessment
• Option Evaluation – Next possible steps to Move Forward

Exercise: SWOT analysis – understanding current departmental situation

Module 4: Methods and Tools for Generating Ideas for Improvements

• Brainstorming or ‘piggy-backing’ thinking session
• Reverse Brainstorming for Highly Creative Cost Reduction
• Sort cards or mind maps

• Visualization techniques to turn-on the Creative Mind
• Identifying when best to use each idea generation technique

Facilitator technique demonstration with group plus learning review

DAY 2

Module 5 Changing Perspectives 

• Opportunity Found: An Entrepreneur’s Perspective
• Fundamentals of Value Creation
• A Solution in Search of a Problem
• An Inside-Out Perspective
• Positive Mindset vital to Change

Exercise: Reframing for Positive Change

Module 6 Process Improvement: Supply Chain Management

• Describe the steps in resource planning process
• Classify material management problems.
• Appraise how a structured process for Supply Chain Management planning enhances decision making in process efficiency and productivity.

Case Study: Identify and Resolving Areas of Weakness

Module 7 Implementation, Monitor & Control 

• Control and monitor the implementation of a strategy using a feedback/monitoring model
• Describe the steps involved with the strategic evaluation and control process in:
  • Process Flow
  • Work Flow
  • Output/Result monitoring
  • Control Wastages/Losses

Module 8 Applying the learning to Current Work Process

• Innovation and Change Management
• Developing Creative Break-through in a Challenging & Changing Situations
• ‘Calm Water’ Metaphor – Implementing and Freezing Change
• Exploring and Turning creative ideas into innovative action in People or Product or Process (Service) Innovation

Advance Brainstorming: Up Lifting the Company’s Business to the next level

Close – Reviewing learning and next steps

Exercise: Review of learning and action planning

• Gain an understanding of how Business Agility Thinking and Action may be applied to opportunities of all kinds including new projects as well as innovation within existing organizations.
• Understand the fundamental concepts and analytical tools that help assess opportunities and develop entrepreneurial ideas, and how these concepts and tools may be applied to real world organisational situations and opportunities.
• Learn and use a methodology to develop and assess new opportunities that are the critical first step in moving an idea from concept to launch and implementation.
• Develop, define and clearly communicate a new process flow or initiative in an efficient, effective and compelling manner.
• Learn to shift mind-sets to that of an entrepreneur in handling each business unit as a critical part of the supply chain in order to deliver the best products or services to the customers.