PAUL 680 (01) - BiP-Competitive Intelligence Topics

BiP:C/Organizational Agility

Durham Paul College of Business&Econ::Paul College Business & Econ
Credits: 2.0
Class Size: 24 
Term:  Spring 2025 - Term 4 (03/24/2025 - 05/16/2025)
CRN:  54439
Grade Mode:  Credit/Fail Grading
Business in Practice: Competitive Intelligence develops students' abilities to gather, analyze, and distribute information and ideas about products, customers, competitors or the external environment. An emphasis is placed on experiential learning and instruction from business professionals. Rotating topic courses are offered to meet the needs of the ever-changing business environment. Cr/F, unless noted as letter graded in the section or additional course description.
Section Comments: BiP:C/Organizational Agility
Repeat Rule: May be repeated for a maximum of 8 credits.
Only listed colleges in section: Paul College of Business&Econ

Times & Locations

Start Date End Date Days Time Location
3/24/2025 5/16/2025 M 5:40pm - 8:30pm HS 201

Additional Course Details:

Organizational Agility:

This course will focus on how organizations, in particular senior leaders, decide to take agile strategy, how they view agile, the impact it will have on their planning from a staffing, performance, product, and operational perspective. 

 

Students will work in groups throughout the semester, with each class focusing the impact the transition to agile to the organization.  The students will be provided material to raise their understanding of agile behaviors and attributes and look to see how it will impact various operational aspects of an organization.  Many classes will involve students examining current corporate examples of where corporations may have achieved a dominating market presence with agility and then lose that dominance by being overtaken by a competitor with greater agile nimbleness.