Redesigning Your Organization: Part I Overview/Description Target Audience Expected Duration Lesson Objectives Course Number Overview/Description
How do you implement systems thinking? How do you take what you've learned in theory and apply it to your organization? This course will walk you step by step through a planning process of designing an organizational system. You'll learn how to design your ideal organization, how to implement the design, and how to incorporate the learning of the new system so the entire team involved becomes a part of it.
Target Audience
Managers, supervisors, team leaders
Expected Duration (hours)
3.0
Lesson Objectives Taking Stock of Your Organization
recognize the importance of taking stock of the current state of the organization.
sequence the four-step process of taking stock of the current state of the organization.
construct a projected future for an organization in a specific business scenario.
construct a mission statement in a given business scenario.
Constructing an Idealized Design
recognize benefits of understanding and using the process of idealized design.
identify examples of components of an idealized design.
apply the idealized-design process in a given scenario.
identify the three classes of constraints that affect an idealized design.
Closing the Gaps
recognize the importance of closing the gaps between an idealized design and the current state of the organization.
identify examples of gaps in an idealized design.
assess a given scenario to determine the agent or agents used to close a gap between an idealized design and the current state of an organization.
evaluate the effectiveness of the solution used for closing a gap in a given scenario.
Determining Your Resources
recognize the importance of determining both the necessary and the available resources.
identify the five types of resources an organization uses in implementing an idealized design.
assess the necessary and available resources involved in an idealized design for a given situation.
apply the process for accommodating resource discrepancies in a given scenario.
Course Number: STGY0405