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Business Agility Bootcamp

Overview

Reference No TGS-2020001477
Part of -
Duration 2 days
Course Time 9:00am to 5:00pm
Enquiry Please email ask-iss@nus.edu.sg for more details.
Business agility refers to the ability of an organisation to respond and adapt quickly to the fast changing digital business environment that will continue to be more uncertain, complex and ambiguous than before.

An agile organisation is both stable (resilient, reliable and efficient) and dynamic (fast, nimble and adaptive). They can offer high value proposition and great customer experience for their customers by organising itself quickly and learning rapidly from time to time.

Businesses that embrace agile values and principles across their organisations are better at rapid innovation and achieve faster time-to-market for their products and services, which are very important competitive advantages in the digital business environment today.

This course present the importance of business agility in relation to digital transformation and provide guidance for business leaders to apply agile principles and practices to change their ways or working and mind-sets across the organisation to increase their business agility.

This course is designed for use in a bootcamp, which can be tailored for specific organisational needs, and a part of the Digital Strategy & Leadership and Digital Agility Series offered by NUS-ISS.

This course is also offered in the following formats:
  • Online Blended Learning: Learn more and register here.
  • Live Online Learning (via Zoom): Available for corporate groups only. Contact us at (65) 6516 2093 or email us at iss-blendedlearning@nus.edu.sg.
  • In-person Learning: Register using the link below.

Key Takeaways

On completion of this course, participants will be able to apply the following seven principles to increase business agility for their organisation such as:

  • Build Autonomous Teams: To build and empower customer-focused and autonomous teams who can self-organise and respond to fast business changes effectively
  • Empower People: To empower and align teams with vision, purpose and principles of the organisation, with the practices of decentralised decision-making
  • Simplify Business Processes: To simplify processes to gain speed to deliver value for the customers and business
  • Be Data-Driven: To apply data analytical techniques to measure business results using customer-driven metrics and achieve better data-driven decision-making for continuous improvement and innovation
  • Deliver Quickly and Iterate: To adapt iterative approach to experimentation, learn from feedback and make fast decision to improve speed-to-market for Product or Services introduction.
  • Tightly Manage Work-In-Process: To analyse and reduce bottlenecks to improve the flow of work across the organisation that lead to achieving fast and better business outcome.
  • Cultivate a Culture of Innovation – To analyse the right resources, working environment and supports needed by employees and organisation to embrace culture of innovation to keep up with paces of changes and gain sustainable competitive advantage in their business environment.



Who Should Attend

Digital Professionals, Business Managers and C-level executives who are seeking to lead and increase business agility for their organisations.

Prerequisites

  • Participants should have some prior knowledge on digital business and management in general (project management, programme management or change management) and have at least 10 years of professional experience.
  • Participants understand what is business agility and basic knowledge of agile principles and values.
  • This is an intensive and highly interactive course and participants are expected to do prior readings and reflect on assigned questions as part of preparation before attending the classes.

What to Bring

No printed course materials will be issued.
Use Your Own Laptop – Participants are required to use your own internet-enabled laptop with these recommended configuration; Intel Core i5 (sixth generation or newer) or equivalent, Microsoft Windows 10 Professional, 8GB (or higher) RAM. The recommended web browser is Google Chrome to access courseware on the ISS learning management system. No printed course materials will be issue.



What Will Be Covered

  • 7 principles of business agility
  • Leadership in an agile organisation
  • Leadership case study (video and discussion)
  • Extending agile practices to the organisation beyond IT
  • Reality check: know where you are in current-state assessment



Fees & Subsidies

Fees for 2024
  Full Fee Singaporeans & PRs
(self-sponsored)
Full course fee S$1800 S$1800
ISS Subsidy  - (S$180)
Nett course fee S$1800 S$1620
9% GST on nett course fee S$162 S$145.80
Total nett course fee payable, including GST S$1962 S$1765.80
Note:
  1. All fees and subsidies are valid from January 2024, unless otherwise advised.
  2. All self-sponsored Singaporeans aged 25 and above can use their SkillsFuture Credit to pay for course fees. For more information about SkillsFuture Credit, click here.
  3. From 1st January 2024, the GST will be increased to 9%.



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Certificate

Certificate of Completion
Participants have to meet a minimum attendance rate of 75% and are required to pass the assessment to be issued a Certificate of Completion.



Preparing for Your Course

NUS-ISS Course Registration Terms and Conditions

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NUS-ISS and Learner’s Commitment and Responsibilities

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WIFI Access

WIFI access will be made available to participants.

Venue

NUS-ISS
25 Heng Mui Keng Terrace
Singapore 119615

Click HERE for directions to NUS-ISS

In the event of a change of venue, participants are advised to refer to the acceptance email sent one week prior to the commencement date.

Course Confirmation

All classes are subject to confirmation and NUS-ISS will send an acceptance email to participants one week prior to the commencement date. Confirmed registrants are to attend and complete all lectures, class exercises, workshops and assessments (where applicable). Additionally, all responses to feedbacks and surveys conducted by NUS-ISS and its partners must be submitted. All training and assessments will be delivered as described in the course webpage.

General Enquiry

Please feel free to write to ask-iss@nus.edu.sg if you have any enquiry or feedback.




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