Design an organization that delivers your strategy
For leaders and change agents in large organizations.
Reduce time from strategic decision to execution with strategic alignment.
Cut coordination costs and meetings with a tailored operating model.
Create effective groups driving innovation and business results.
Get the essence in just 3 minutes. Watch the overview by Cesario Ramos.
How Creating Agile Organizations Works
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Start from strategy
Clarify strategic focus and target business outcomes. -
Define required capabilities
Combine strategic focus + general organisational capabilities to specify the desired capability set. -
Assess current vs desired
Map existing capabilities, decide which to keep, strengthen, or build because they’re missing. -
Design the organisation systemically
Use CAO guidelines to align structure, governance and leadership with strategy.
Evolve a tailored organizations design that fits your context.
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Designing Agile Organizations™
Who Should Attend?
Leaders, management, and change agents shaping organizations for strategic agility.
Why Attend?
In just 2 days, gain the tools and mindset to design Agile organizations that truly deliver on strategy.
Learn how to align structure, roles, processes and coordination to build the capabilities your business needs most.
Guiding Agile Organizations™
Who Should Attend?
Change leaders, Agile coaches, and transformation leads driving organizational change.
Why Attend?
This immersive 3-day workshop equips you with the tools and coaching skills to guide successful Agile transformations.
Walk away with practical techniques to align your organization with strategic goals and enable real change at every level.
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Hear from those who’ve been there
Participants from companies like Volkswagen Digital Solutions, Thales, Rabobank, Malvern-Panalytical, KPN, ING, Zuehlke, Raiffeisenbank, Prowareness and more have attended…
It was an amazing workshop and a must for any person avid to foster and guide thoughtful, empirical, yet strategic change towards holistic, and systemic improvement in the organization!
Last week I spent interesting 2 days in a training on ‘Designing agile organizations’. It turns out there is no single approach or integrated framework to address this challenge. We all need to find the answers ourselves. But thanks to Cesario Ramos we have now a toolbox of proven methods and techniques to face the challenge! Great training!
Many thanks for the awesome training, Cesario!
Really enjoyed the Designing Agile Organizations course! Learning alongside such an insightful group truly enhanced the experience. The practical examples provided, also from Strobbo, added significant value. For me, this course complements the LeSS practitioner course I previously followed, broadening the scope from multi-team Scrum to full product groups and beyond. Let the experiments begin! Thank you Jurgen De Smet for an inspiring 2 days!
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