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Building Organizational Resilience: A System Approach to Mitigating Risk and Uncertainty 
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Building Organizational Resilience: A System Approach to Mitigating Risk and Uncertainty
 at 
MIT University 
Overview

Explore the importance of systems thinking, learn to identify and act on the warning signs of irregular operations

Duration

3 days

Total fee

3.11 Lakh

Mode of learning

Online

Course Level

UG Certificate

Building Organizational Resilience: A System Approach to Mitigating Risk and Uncertainty
 at 
MIT University 
Highlights

  • Earn a certificate of course completion from the MIT Sloan School of Management
  • Students will hear from guest speakers who are leaders in their industries
  • Learn through faculty presentations, panel discussions case studies, interactive exercises, and small-group discussions
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Building Organizational Resilience: A System Approach to Mitigating Risk and Uncertainty
 at 
MIT University 
Course details

Who should do this course?
  • For C-suite executives and those reporting directly to the C-suite
  • For Operational VPs and Directors
  • For Executives with more than 10 years of experience who lead functions, geographies, units, and practice areas
What are the course deliverables?
  • Develop a consistent language of risk and resiliency across organization
  • Understand the underlying assumptions of operating paradigm
  • Design processes that are robust and inject flexibility into systems
  • Learn to identify the unconscious assumptions and irregular operations that can derail efforts
  • Make processes and operating paradigm more robustly and flexibly without losing efficiency
  • Understand the relationship between continuous improvement and systemic risk, and how to implement continuous improvement for greater organizational resiliency, and greater profits
  • Identify the right intervention points in operations and supply chain to arrest and recover from evolving critical situations based on system thinking
  • Effectively select and implement new technologies to fundamentally change organization's productivity/risk curve
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More about this course
  • This new course provides business leaders with a practical approach to assess and build organizational resiliency
  • Learn how systems thinking and continuous improvement can help the team identify problems before they occur and fundamentally alter their organization's ability to effectively respond when they do
  • Understand the role hidden factories and irregular operations play in contributing to catastrophic events, and how this knowledge can be leveraged to reverse their effects
  • Leave with a playbook for improving the resilience of the company
  • Students will leave this organizational resilience course ready to implement a 90-day playbook for improving the resiliency of their organization
  • Students will learn how systems thinking and continuous improvement can help students team identify problems before they occur and fundamentally alter their organization's ability to effectively respond when they do
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Building Organizational Resilience: A System Approach to Mitigating Risk and Uncertainty
 at 
MIT University 
Curriculum

Day 1

Welcome and Overview Levi, Carrier

Operational Risk Management of Large Systems:

Frameworks, Models and Mental Pitfalls Levi

System Level Risk Mitigation Strategies

Sensing and Flexibility Levi

Day 2

A System Approach to the Design and Operation of Resilient Organizations Carrier

The Urban Nervous System:

Tales from the Urban Risk Lab Mazereeuw/Carrier

Case Study: Columbia's Final Mission Carrier

Day 3

Cybersecurity and Risk Management Levi

Panel: Developing Resilient Organizations Panelists/Carrier

Developing your own 90 Day Playbook Levi, Carrier

Certificate Presentation and Adjournment H

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Building Organizational Resilience: A System Approach to Mitigating Risk and Uncertainty
 at 
MIT University 
Faculty details

John Carrier
John Carrier is a Senior Lecturer of System Dynamics at the MIT Sloan School of Management. Carrier instructs senior managers on improving manufacturing and business processes and serves as an on-site coach in support of projects.

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