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Theme 1:  Systems thinking is a model of decision making that helps organizations change and adapt.  For example, a person may look at trees, creatures, foliage, and water to know the forest. The trees, foliage, creatures and water is the system that comprise the forest. Applying this approach to business requires one to view the entirety of an organization as a complete system with integrated complex components.  For a business to function successfully, the systems within an organization must have interaction and a connection between the components of the system.  A highly functioning business system continually exchanges feedback with its parts and systems to ensure that each remains aligned to accomplish of the goal of the system and ultimately the business.

Read/View:

· Systems Thinking

· Systems Thinking

· Smashing Silos  Students should search on look for the article authored by Evan Rosen)

· The ten principles of collaborative organizations

· Systems Thinking and Design Thinking: Complementary Approaches?

· Peter Senge on Systems Thinking

· Seeing Your Company as a System

Theme 2: The agile manager seeks to combine the functions of management with the contemporary theories of management to create the competitive edge. You might ask how relevant the lesson is to managers in the 21st century, including yourself, how practical is its application, as well as how possible it is to align the old with new evolved practices? Well, there are no best answers or expectations to be aligned as a perfect model that assures 100 percent positive results when it comes to application of contemporary theories of management and its functions. Of course, they serve as a reference to aid in achieving the best possible results when incorporated under a presented optimum environment that allows for less variables of criteria – current business environments are dynamic and fluid versus static, hence your lessons learned in this course will and should align your understanding of certain organizational theories as it influences managerial roles , comfort-ability with subject matter, and possible application to presented expectations will greatly enhance your delivery of the best possible version of a solution given the time and available resources. Remember learning is continuous, and so is the field of organizational theory, which in turn influences the management school of thought and allows this lesson to begin a yearning for further studies in the field.

Read/View:

· Agile Thinking

· An Introduction to Business Agility

· How To Build an Agile Business

· People and Agility: Creating an Agile Workforce

· Being Agile, Being Future-Proof

· Talent Agility – A Systematic Approach to Business Agility