Certificate of Advanced Studies Scalable Agility , 10 ECTS

Duration :4 months

Workload : ~ 15 h / week

Language :English

Classes start on : Start February and September

Price : CHF 7600.-

In a few words

In a globalised market, only those enterprises and organisations that do not shy away from the fundamental social and technological changes but, rather, adapt as quickly as possible to the new underlying conditions and demands, have a chance of survival. Agile transformation and innovation management make enterprises and organisations adaptable so that they can react dynamically to external and internal circumstances.

While agility is, for the most part, introduced only in individual areas of a business, a successful agile transformation must be applied at all corporate levels. Agile transformation and innovation means adapting to fast-changing market conditions and initiating, systematically structuring, and guiding and supporting enterprise-wide sustainable, cultural and technological change.

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Syllabus

Calendar spring 2025

General academic regulation continuing education

Annex: CAS Scalable Agility

Information webinar

Registration and admission

The UniDistance Suisse CAS Scalable Agility gives you a comprehensive continuing education in agile transformation and innovation that you can complete part-time. You can develop your own personal project throughout the programme, and can book additional coaching from Prof. Christoph Peters or Dr Karen Eilers to implement it into your organisation.

Teaching team

Prof. Dr Christoph Peters
René Kräling
Dr Karen Simone Eilers

The CAS Scalable Agility 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 Scalable Agility, 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 Scalable Agility 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

Chart representing the study load over the semesters

Every module lasts three weeks and is certified with 2 ECTS points (European Credit Transfer System), which corresponds to a study workload of approx. 50 to 60 hours per module.

One ECTS point corresponds to a study workload of 25 to 30 hours. You can find more information here.

All modules are completed separately. For each module, there are two or three exams, tests or assessed pieces of work, which have to be submitted or taken by the students. There is no bigger final dissertation to be completed or final examination to be taken at the end of the CAS.

The CAS Scalable Agility 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.

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

You are awarded 10 ECTS points for the whole CAS.

The maximum number of students who can take part in the CAS Scalable Agility is limited to 15.

The language of instruction and the literature used is English.

Voices of Distant Learning

Sandra Kunze

Graduate, Bachelor of Science in Psychology
Project Manager UBS

«Distance learning gave me the flexibility to combine my career and education. New knowledge from my studies can be easily transferred into my daily work, so everyone wins - my employer and me!»