Business Agility Foundations (ICP-BAF)

About the Course

The ICP-BAF program demonstrates an ability to articulate the values, principles, and dimensions of business agility. Participants learn to formulate an action plan for applying agility in their workplaces and to appraise and use a variety of frameworks, tools, and techniques to jumpstart the organizational and individual transformation toward a more responsive, value-driven reality. The course covers new ways of thinking, differentiating behaviors, and practical frameworks including lean systems thinking, lean startup, design thinking, and flow-based systems.

What You Will Learn

• Articulate the drivers, values, principles, and dimensions of business agility
• Develop a growth mindset and recognize blind spots, mental models, and patterns in sense-making
• Recognize and manage dilemmas, paradoxes, and polarities in complex environments
• Apply new behaviors such as high-performance questions, making value visible, and hypothesis testing
• Appraise frameworks including lean systems thinking, lean startup, design thinking, and flow-based systems
• Create space for optimal engagement and value creation
• Build an action plan to accelerate business agility in your own context

Key Topics & Agenda

• Awareness: The Need for Business Agility
• Compelling Vision, Focus, and Clarity of Purpose
• New Ways of Thinking: Growth Mindset, Mental Models, and Polarities
• New and Differentiating Behaviors
• Frameworks, Tools, and Techniques: Lean Systems Thinking, Lean Startup, Design Thinking, Flow
• Business Agility as the New Normal

Related Roles

Executive / Senior Leader, People Manager / Team Lead, HR & People Professional, Product Owner / Product Manager, Change & Transformation Lead