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 PDH

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.

Specific Knowledge or Skill Obtained

This course teaches the following specific knowledge and skills:

• Several strategic actions that engineering leaders can use to mitigate VUCA situations
• How engineering leaders can preserve decisional optionality in product development process
• The pitfalls in the engineering leadership in the new work contexts and the tools used to counter those
• Situational management principles and tools that can be used to mitigate the effects of VUCA situations: organizational flexibility, providing a unifying vision, tolerating dissent, streamlining procedures, fostering a culture of reaching out to collective intelligence, etc.
• Flexible thinking approaches at the leadership level, and how to deploy them to handle VUCA situations
• Future trends in innovation, including processes, co-innovation and sources of funding, and how to be ready to successfully exploit them
• How to empower technical teams to understand when they need to make decisions
• 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

Certificate of Completion

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