Future Engineering – Leadership Skills in the VUCA world

In Future Engineering – Leadership Skills in the VUCA world, you'll learn ...

• VUCA constraints (Volatility, Uncertainty, Complexity and Ambiguity) on the engineering leadership and the tools to manage them
• Several approaches for managing crisis in the VUCA context by anticipating and creating efficient redundancies in the available processes and skills
• New trends and demands in the new engineering processes embodied by Model Based Engineering and Hyperautomation and how to be ready to advantageously manage them

Overview

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Credit: 3 CPD

Length: 40 pages

As the world transforms around us, so the engineering leadership needs to evolve to adequately support the new societal demands imposed by new discoveries and novel technologies.

This course builds on the concepts introduced in the course “Future Engineering – Engineers’ Skills in VUCA World” about managing the characteristics of the VUCA world and its effects on engineering. With society becoming increasingly volatile, uncertain, complex and ambiguous (the VUCA world), engineering leaders need to take actions to be ready to successfully handle those environments. The course presents strategic and specific actions, along with ways to preserve optionality and reduce the organizational and project risks. Additional ideas are introduced to help handle all the VUCA situations, including crisis management, empowering tools for all team members, flexible thinking, as well as typical pitfalls, along with steps to mitigate their effects.

Additional leadership tools are introduced later in the course, covering the necessity of flexible thinking, the trends in the innovation processes (the emergence of the Innovation Platforms and developments in the capital networks that support innovation) and the effects of automation, for both internal and external stakeholders. Those are expected to improve the flow of information and ease the decisional processes, with the end goal of delivering better products and services in the new VUCA world paradigm.

A specific chapter is reserved for envisioned changes in personal education that prepares engineering leadership to be ready for the new graduates with new sets of skills, and empower leadership to add relevant skills to existing teams.

Established and aspiring engineering project managers, engineering and technical managers and leaders from all disciplines and of all seniorities will benefit from this course - preparing them for the VUCA world that is right around the corner.

Learning Objectives

Upon completion of this course, participants will be able to:

• Describe several strategic actions that engineering leaders can use to mitigate VUCA situations.
• Explain how engineering leaders can preserve decisional optionality in the product development process.
• Identify the pitfalls of engineering leadership in new work contexts and the tools used to counter them.
• Analyze situational management principles and tools that can be used to mitigate the effects of VUCA situations, including organizational flexibility, providing a unifying vision, tolerating dissent, streamlining procedures, and fostering a culture of leveraging collective intelligence.
• Evaluate flexible thinking approaches at the leadership level, and how to deploy them to handle VUCA situations.
• Outline future trends in innovation, including processes, co-innovation, and sources of funding, and how to be ready to successfully exploit them.
• Develop technical teams that understand when they need to make decisions.
• Apply changes in personal education that prepare engineering leadership to be ready for the new graduates with new sets of skills, and empower leadership to add relevant skills to existing teams.

Certificate of Completion

You will be able to immediately print a certificate of completion after passing a multiple-choice quiz consisting of 15 questions. CPD credits are not awarded until the course is completed and quiz is passed.