Designing agile organizations
Turn Strategy into Reliable Execution
Frameworks can provide structure, but they don’t deliver strategy on their own. Sustained performance comes from an operating model intentionally aligned to strategic priorities: organization design, governance, funding, decision rights, and execution cadence.
In the DAO course, you’ll learn how to design and evolve the operating model required for reliable strategy execution. Enroll today.
DAO course overview
This 2-day certified course offers design and thinking tools to create Agile organizations aligned with strategy.
Built on the principles in Creating Agile Organizations, this course provides a practical toolkit for designing organizations that deliver strategic outcomes. You’ll learn how to:
- align structure with strategic priorities,
- shape departments and teams for flow and accountability,
- reduce cross-unit dependencies,
- clarify leadership and management roles,
- and implement the coordination mechanisms and people practices that sustain agility at scale.
Who should attend?
Designed for senior leaders and managers across technology and the business, Designing Agile Organization equips you to improve organizational performance through better design. For maximum impact, we recommend leadership teams attend together to create shared alignment and accelerate execution.
Course learning objectives
Be able to design your organization for adaptability and highest value delivery.
Learn how to evolve a tailored organization design that reflects your organization’s unique dynamics and strategy.
Understand the systemic approach to improving the performance of your organization.
Course agenda
Day 1: Design For Strategic Alignment
What is an agile organization?
Overview of the CAO approach.
Aligning Organization Design with Your Strategic Focus.
Driving Organization Design with Capabilities
Systems Thinking for designing an agile organization.
Designing The Product or Service
Designing The Product Group
Eliminating Team Dependencies by Design
Day 2: Design For Global Improvement
Designing The Larger Organization
Decoupling Departments, Shared Services & Product Groups
Designing Product Management & Line Managment.
The Agile Organization design guides.
Processes & integration: how to coordinate and integrate across units.
People practices.
Working with Large Platform groups
Extensive Q&A
Certified - Designing Agile Organizations
Every participant receives a copy of Creating Agile Organizations, the full CAO Workshop Box with all course workshops and cards, and an official course certificate registration.
Locations
We provide courses all over the world. Find one that fits your agenda, or contact us for an in-house course for your team.
Training and certifications in Russia are not possible. Our hearts go out to all those affected by the ongoing conflict between Russia and Ukraine. We are deeply troubled by the violence and its impact on innocent people.
Can’t join in person?
We understand that travel or timing doesn’t always work out. If you’re interested in joining this course online, let us know — we’ll setup and schedule a live online session soon.
The CAO Workshop Box
The Real Work Begins After the Course.
Every participant of a Creating Agile Organizations course will now receive a full deck of our CAO Workshop Cards. These cards are designed to help you bring the course ideas into real conversations inside your organization.
They can be used for aligning strategy with structure, exploring adaptability costs, or making sense of design trade-offs. Think of them as tools for reflection, facilitation, and action.
Introduction to CAO
Watch the 3 min introduction by Cesario Ramos, CAO co-creator.
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Looking for an in-company course?
We offer DAO and CAO courses in most parts of the world. Contact us without obligation if you would like to organise a professional workshop in your company, either in-person or online.
Register here for one of our workshops and trainings!