Strategic Change Management 

offered by Northwestern University

Identify the key elements of an effective strategy statement

Practice writing a strategy statement

Critique an organization's strategy statement

Relate the importance of an organization's structure to its competitive advantage

Articulate the best approach to change an organization's design

Use metrics and measurement to motivate for change

Analyze data to determine the alignment between an organization's strategy and structure

Determine how an organization should change to align its strategy and structure

Articulate how to organize for closure versus brokerage

Determine whether an organization is designed for closure or brokerage

Analyze an organization's informal social networks and deduce whether it is structured for execution or innovation

Recommend changes to an organization's informal social networks to foster execution and innovation

Identify the core concepts of a learning-ready organization

Determine the learning-readiness of an organization

Apply the concept of learning-readiness to organizational alliances

Deduce appropriate social networks to facilitate a learning-ready organization

Identify what agility is and discuss it in the context of organizational strategy

Indicate ways to become more agile

Apply tools to increase strategic and organizational agility

Identify different types of innovation and how innovation leads to resistance

Determine the risks associated with stakeholder perception to disruptive innovation

Recommend ideas to manage resistance to change

Understand the difference between installing change and implementing change

Investigate an organization's ability to sustain change

Predict whether a change management plan is likely to be sustained or not