Professional Agile Leadership - Evidence Based Management
Live Virtual Class, March 28, 2025
Class Overview
Professional Agile Leadership -
Evidence-based Management (PAL-EBM)
In rapidly evolving business landscapes, leaders need more than just intuition to make strategic decisions. The Professional Agile Leadership - Evidence-based Management (PAL-EBM) course teaches leaders and executives how to measure value creation and use empirical evidence to guide organizational strategy and investments.
This intensive, practical course equips participants with the tools and knowledge to implement Evidence-based Management (EBM) in their organizations, enabling them to make better decisions through measurement and experimentation. Through hands-on exercises and real-world scenarios, participants learn to connect technical practices to business outcomes and drive meaningful organizational improvement.
Course Objectives
1. Master the EBM Framework
Understanding the fundamental principles and components of Evidence-based Management, including the four Key Value Areas (KVAs) and their interconnections in driving organizational value.
2. Develop Measurement Expertise
Learn to identify, collect, and analyze meaningful metrics that truly indicate progress toward business goals, while avoiding the pitfalls of vanity metrics and measuring for measurement's sake.
3. Strategic Decision-Making
Acquire the skills to make evidence-based strategic decisions about products, processes, and organizational improvements using empirical data and experimentation.
4. Value-Driven Leadership
Understand how to lead organizations toward better outcomes by focusing on value creation and measurement rather than output or activity metrics.
Learning Outcomes
1. Evidence-Based Decision Making
- Apply empirical thinking to organizational challenges
- Use data to validate assumptions and hypotheses
- Make informed decisions about product and process improvements
2. Strategic Measurement Implementation
- Define and implement valuable organizational metrics
- Create meaningful measurement frameworks aligned with business goals
- Understand the relationship between leading and lagging indicators
3. Value-Stream Understanding
- Map organizational value streams effectively
- Identify key points of measurement in the value creation process
- Optimize value delivery through systematic improvement
4. Organizational Improvement
- Guide organizational change using empirical evidence
- Implement effective feedback loops for continuous improvement
- Align technical practices with business outcomes
Course Outline
Foundations and Framework
- Introduction to Evidence-based Management
- The Four Key Value Areas (KVAs)
- Understanding Value Creation and Measurement
- Practical Exercise: Mapping Your Organization's Value Stream
Implementation and Application
- Selecting and Implementing Meaningful Metrics
- Creating Experimentation Frameworks
- Making Evidence-based Decisions
- Hands-on Workshop: Building Your Measurement Strategy
Upon completing the PAL-EBM course, you'll be equipped to transform your organization's decision-making process from gut-feel to evidence-based. You'll have the tools to:
- Make strategic decisions backed by empirical evidence
- Create meaningful measurement frameworks that drive improvement
- Connect technical practices to business outcomes
- Lead organizational change with confidence and clarity
- Build a culture of continuous improvement based on real data
Most importantly, you'll be able to demonstrate and improve your organization's ability to deliver value to customers, stakeholders, and employees through systematic, evidence-based approaches to management.
Don't just manage by intuition – lead with evidence. Join us for the Professional Agile Leadership - Evidence-based Management course and transform how your organization creates and measures value.
Class Details
Taught By
Language
English
Delivery Method
Live Virtual Class
Time Zone: Europe/Zurich
Start/End Time: 9:00 AM - 5:00 PM
Date
Start: March 28, 2025
End: March 28, 2025