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If you want to actively shape the future instead of just letting it happen, you will find the right knowledge and tools here!
Our experts Lucas Sauberschwarz and Prof. Dr. Lysander Weiß show what skills resilient organizations need to not only survive in turbulent times, but also to grow successfully. Together we will discover what constitutes strategic agility and how organizations can develop and adapt their strategies resiliently in turbulent times.
The workshop is aimed at ambitious managers who are driving forward the strategic adaptation and renewal of their organization under dynamic environmental changes and organizations that not only want to survive, but also grow sustainably in the future.
The workshop will be held in German. If you prefer English, please contact us at info-pdt@hpi.de
We will be happy to prepare an individual offer for you and your organization on request.
Interested? Send us an e-mail to info-pdt@hpi.de
2,000.00 €
plus VAT
Early Bird Price
Special Price: 1,800.00 €
Valid Until: 2026-08-27
plus VAT
The workshop will give you the tools to make your organization fit for the future by
“Strategy as we know it is dead” (Prof. Rita McGrath, Columbia University)
This quote illustrates the challenge facing virtually all organizations and companies in today's turbulent times, where traditional instruments of strategic planning and strategic management are reaching their limits due to the high level of uncertainty and complexity. The numerous and overlapping technological, political, social, ecological and economic changes are leading to the erosion of existing competitive advantages. The “strategic fit” between the strategic competitive positioning of an organization and its environment is therefore at risk. To be truly future-proof, an organization therefore needs a continuous review and (if necessary) renewal of its competitive advantages, or in short: strategic agility, instead of 5-year planning and detailed, cascaded strategic programmes!
In this intensive 2-day workshop at the HPI d-School, you will learn and apply the necessary dynamic skills for agile strategy development. These range from goal setting to the evaluation of existing and identification of new strategic options to their realization as renewed competitive advantages and thus ensure lasting strategic fit. By processing changes and addressing them as opportunities and risks, established organizations can not only survive in turbulent times, but also grow successfully! We bridge the gap between theory and practice and apply the skills for strategic agility directly to case studies.
Scientifically sound, practically proven
The experts Lucas Sauberschwarz and Prof. Dr. Lysander Weiß build on deep and broad experience in working with established organizations and companies from over 30 different industries. Whether Schaeffler, KfW, ebm-papst or Johanniter, Sauberschwarz and Weiß always focus on the future viability of the organizations. To this end, the experts rely on their own academic research at the HHL Leipzig Graduate School of Management and publish their insights in numerous academic articles and application-oriented management books. In the workshop at HPI, they share the resulting, tried-and-tested methods and tools for practical application. In this way, they not only enable a comprehensive understanding of strategic agility, but also the direct transfer into practice for the establishment and application of the necessary dynamic skills - based on an individual assessment of one's own organization.
On the first day, you will understand the challenges of managing established organizations through high uncertainty and complexity in dynamic environments. You will get to know the concept of strategic agility and the concrete dynamic capabilities to realize a continuous review and renewal of competitive advantages in organizational practice. The evaluation of dynamic capabilities for your own organization enables the direct identification of gaps for action in practice.
On this basis, the first two dynamic skills for defining the strategic framework (scoping) and evaluating the strategic options (configuring) are applied in practice using case studies and your own practical challenges.
On the second day, after a short recap on the fundamental understanding of strategic agility, the focus is on the further application of dynamic capabilities. Based on practical cases, new strategic opportunities are identified and evaluated (sensing), then developed and tested (seizing) and their possible realization anticipated as new competitive advantages (transforming). As on the previous day, generative AI will be used to make the application quickly implementable.
Before the final summary and discussion, the aspect of culture & competencies will be considered, the orientation of which is crucial for the application of dynamic capabilities in an organization. With these tools and the identified gaps in action and opportunities for your own organization, it is then back to practice and application on site!
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