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Course Description
Enterprise transformation helps companies change their strategy in response to economic and market disruptions, such as an organization’s products or services being out of date, revenue streams being changed, new regulations or market competition becoming more intense. It’s a methodology of business-driven change in how a company structures itself and moves forward to improve and drive new levels of growth.
Major elements addressed in the course will include:
Who Should Attend
This 3-day course is ideal for fast-rising managers and executives in enterprises who need to take on key responsibilities in the transformation of these enterprises in reaction to and in anticipation of major market and technology opportunities, as well as competitive threats and crises. This program is most appropriate for those with backgrounds in engineering, technology, science, economics, defense or other technical fields who have gained or are soon to gain management responsibilities.
How You Will Benefit
Learn foundational principles and frameworks of enterprise transformation
Apply systems thinking to enterprise analysis
Conduct a self-assessment of current and future state of enterprise
Apply tools and concepts for transformation analysis
Recognize drivers, enablers, and obstacles of transformation
Learn about necessary competencies for enterprise transformation
Recognize the need to change and gain consensus among stakeholders that dramatic change is necessary
Agree what form the change should take, the objectives of the change and a vision that describes a better future
Understand what the company is changing from and what needs to change in detail
Design the new way of working and its support and management
Content
Transformation Definitions
Transformation Examples
Enterprise Challenges
Theory of Transformation
Ends, Means, Scope of Transformation
Transformation Methodologies
Case Studies and Class Projects
Project Reports
Transformation Research
Materials Provided
Textbook, Enterprise Transformation: Understanding and Enabling Fundamental Change, William B. Rouse, (Wiley Series in Systems Engineering and Management), Wiley-Interscience, 2006
For Course-Related Questions
Please contact the course administrator: Rahul C Basole, Ph.D - basole@gatech.edu
