CAS Agile Transformation and Innovation

The CAS Agile Transformation and Innovation is aimed at people who would like to extend their knowledge or gain new competencies in agile business transformation and innovation:

• Graduates with a Bachelor’s or Master’s degree from a university or higher education institution in economic sciences, business information systems, business psychology, industrial engineering or business studies

Professional groups:

• Employees at middle and upper management levels
• Heads of department with managerial responsibility
• Corporate and organisational developers
• Employees in corporate and organisational development

With the CAS Agile Transformation and Innovation, graduates acquire the following skills and abilities and specialized knowledge:

• Knowledge about the latest scientific and academic theories, concepts, methods and possible applications of agility and agile transformation in business enterprises.
• Knowledge about the differences between doing agile and being agile.
• Knowledge about the various dimensions of the agile mindset.
• Knowledge about the various forms and principles of agile leadership.
• Knowledge about the interactions between agile ways of operating and innovative capability on the basis of agile forms and methods of innovation.
• Knowledge about agile forms of organisation in business enterprises and the scaling of organisational forms and methods.
• Knowledge of and insights into examples and best practices from real life.
• Application competency for the successful implementation of agile forms of organisation in business enterprises
• Implementation of concrete strategies and concepts for agile transformation in your business enterprise.

On completion, you have a complete portfolio of instruments and skills which you need in order to introduce and lead agile transformation and innovation management in your organisation.

UniDistance Suisse is the only university institute in Switzerland to offer the CAS Agile Transformation and Innovation completely as an online learning model. The whole CAS takes place entirely online. Twice per module, you meet your fellow students and the lecturers to exchange ideas and information in a virtual classroom. As well as input seminar papers, the virtual classes also include supervised teamwork, working on case studies and examples based on real life experience, and interactive exercises under the guidance of the lecturers.

On our e-learning platform, you will find all the learning materials, scientific/academic bases and further literature, tasks, assignments and exercises, module videos of the lecturers and exercise quizzes, which are available for you to download for independent study

The CAS in Agile Transformation and Innovation is offered twice a year in the spring and autumn semesters. Two virtual classes take place per module. In rotation, the virtual classes are planned on a fortnightly basis, on a Wednesday evening between 6.00 and 7.30 p.m. in each case.

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Following the successful completion of all modules, UniDistance Suisse awards you the university-level continuing education certificate, the Certificate of Advanced Studies (CAS) Agile Transformation und Innovation.

You are awarded 10 ECTS points for the whole CAS.

The maximum number of students who can take part in the CAS Agile Transformation and Innovation is limited to 15.

The language of instruction and the literature used is English.