Get Ready For A Business And Social Transformation

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.

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