Digital Twins for Senior Leaders is part of a suite of learning opportunities as a partnership between the Digital Twin Hub and Cranfield University, to help individuals and organisations across industry at different points in their digital twin journeys.
The course provides an international baseline for business competency in digital twin skills and aims to develop awareness, knowledge, knowhow and increased confidence to design solutions using digital twins. Created for leaders and future leaders engaged in roles that will influence decision-making, Digital Twins for Senior Leaders will help those in industry to realise digital transformation and organisational change. The course addresses the digital twin skills gap by creating understanding and consensus in the market about digital twins, aligning demand and supply for digital twin competency and encouraging systems thinking as a solution. It delivers a trusted training route with value and impact, mapped to ESG principles. Digital Twins for Senior Leaders has been scoped alongside asset owners and operators and is founded on the Gemini Principles, National Digital Twin programme and interlinked research from Cranfield University, the Open Data Institute and the Digital Twin Hub community. It is delivered by Cranfield University and the Digital Twin Hub, in association with policy makers, industry associations, academic experts and practitioners.At a glance
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- Dates
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- 13 Jun 2024
- Duration8 weeks - 16 hours of active learning
- LocationOnline
- Cost£1,950
Course structure
The course is planned over 8 weeks with 16 hours of active learning (remote lectures delivered in real time and recorded for catch-up) and a strategic discussion forum with the cohort. Lecture sessions run once a week.
The course is designed to guide with developing a digital twin strategy. Successful completion of this along with participating in the course, results in the award of a Cranfield University Certificate of Attendance and a digital badge.
What you will learn
• How to see digital twins as solutions to drive efficiencies and increase productivity
• How to prioritise a business strategy for digital twins on the company/sector/policy/digital agenda
• An understanding of the socio-technical skills needed to build connected digital twins
• An understanding of systems thinking, agent-based modelling and business planning
• An understanding of how the world works and the interconnections between systems
• An understanding of the data management basis for digital twins, including semantic web
• Learnings from best practice examples
About the Digital Twin Hub
The Digital Twin Hub is an internationally recognised organisation and knowledge-sharing community. It is hosted on behalf of the UK Catapult Network at Connected Places Catapult where it drives the conversation on digital twins across industry, academia and the public sector.
This course is delivered as part of the Digital Twin Hub's Gemini skills training programme.
Associated learning
Digital and Technology Solutions MSc at Cranfield University.
Data and Digital Twins Six online learning modules from DT Hub/Open Data Institute.
Customised programmes available, please enquire.
Timetable
Session themes by week
Week 1 - What is a digital twin and why is it significant to you?
Week 2 - What is value, and could the organisational value creation and purpose change with digital twins?
Week 3 - What is the process for building a digital twin?
Week 4 - Building digital twins for sustainable change
Week 5 - What does the digital twin ecosystem look like?
Week 6 - How do organisations position data as a core value-creating asset through digital twins?
Week 7 - Sustaining human-machine interaction in a digital twin environment in tasks/functions/ enterprises
Week 8 - What is my organisational strategy for implementing digital twins over time?
Who should attend
This course is for leaders and future leaders engaged in industry roles that will influence decision-making to realise benefits from digital twins. They will be the enablers and subsequent end-users of digital twin systems or the translators of digital twin capabilities, rather than those creating digital twins.
It is designed for those working in asset owner and operator organisations, suppliers and consultants, and suits company or sector-specific cohorts and/or individuals.
Typically, these leaders will have roles across a variety of management areas: asset; operations; product; performance; planning; continuous improvement; engineering; maintenance; service; customer; HR and skills development; cost and commercial.
This course defines leadership as an organisational business skill set, as laid out in the National Digital Twin programme’s Skills and Capability Framework, for leaders in critical roles at the heart of the initial framework, as well as those in newer roles.
Partnerships
This course is delivered with the Digital Twin Hub as part of the Gemini skills training programme.How to apply
To apply for this course please use the online application form.
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