Organisational design - Know your organisation Coursera

Overview

When you become responsible for leading an organisation, your most important leadership challenge will be enabling your organisation to deliver on its strategy while ensuring it remains sufficiently agile. 

This Organisational design - Know your organisation course offered by Coursera in partnership with McMaster University will prepare you to tackle this challenge. 

You will examine what organisational culture is, the primary organisational structures, and what we mean by ‘systems’, before building on your foundational knowledge and taking a more strategic perspective. 

Build your subject-matter expertise

• Learn new concepts from industry experts
• Gain a foundational understanding of a subject or tool
• Develop job-relevant skills with hands-on projects
• Earn a shareable career certificate

What you'll learn

• Define the key organisational capabilities required for a firm’s positioning strategy as the anchoring point for leading an organisation  
• Assess the degree of alignment between key capabilities and organisational architecture (culture, structure, people practices, systems)  
• Identify the organisational misalignment issues that a leader should prioritize and focus their change plan on
• Develop and present concrete, suitable, and feasible organisational change recommendations that can resolve organisational misalignment issues