Get Ready For A Business And Social Transformation

The Business Transformation of organizations and its impacts on People and Societies.

What you'll learn

Understand the imperatives for organizations to undergo a business transformation

Learn the concepts and fundamental changes in the management principles that a business transformation involves

Understand the modern workforce management models and agile corporate cultures

Learn how the new people strategies and practices affect your approach to work, career and professional development

Get acquainted with the terminology that will help you navigate agile work environments

Understand the social impact

Requirements

No prerequisites

Description

To stay relevant in today’s fast paced world, Organizations large and small are rethinking their structures and operating models to increase speed and flexibility. New technologies are major drivers of these business transformations. The main challenges however, are not in the adoption of new technologies by the users, but in the adoption of new management principles, practices and ways of working by everyone and at all levels of the organization. The new approaches to workforce management and the practices they entail, have bigger impacts on workers and societies than we might realize at first.This course provides comprehensive insights into a business transformation journey, what it means practically as well as implicitely. It aims at helping workers prepare to navigate agile work environments and manage the ripple effects at personal and social levels.The course covers in a concise manner, and by taking a systemic approach:The key principles, models, capabilities and practices Organizations are implementing to support their business transformationThe journey of a digital business transformationThe expectations in terms of mindsets, behaviors and skillsThe underlying dynamics and paradoxes workers can expect to have to deal with in the workplaceThe impacts on peopleThe ripple effects on societies

Overview

Section 1: Get Ready for a Business & Social Transformation

Lecture 1 Course Overview

Lecture 2 The Case for a Business Transformation

Lecture 3 Organizational Capabilities

Lecture 4 The Fluid Workforce

Lecture 5 Corporate Culture, Mindsets, Behaviors & Skills

Lecture 6 The Social Transformation

This course is for workers active in the corporate world, whether employees, contractors or freelancers, as well as for students entering the workforce.