Course description
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 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 and knowhow and increased confidence to create solutions using digital twins. Designed for leaders and future leaders engaged in roles that will influence decision-making, Digital Twins for Senior Leaders will help 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 by 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 by the Digital Twin Hub, in association with policy makers, industry associations, academic experts and practitioners.
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Suitability - Who should attend?
This course is for leaders and future leaders engaged in roles that will influence decision-making to realise digital transformation and organisational change. They will be the enablers and subsequent end-users of digital twin systems or the translators of digital twin capabilities, rather than those creating the 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, leaders will have roles across a variety of management areas: asset; operations; product; performance; 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 the critical roles at the heart of the initial framework, as well as those in newer roles.
Outcome / Qualification etc.
What you will learn
- How to appraise a digital twin approach and lead or enable change.
- How to see digital twins as solutions to drive efficiencies and increase productivity.
- How to recognise the relevance of digital twins for society, improving the environment.
- 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, hosted on behalf of the UK’s 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.
Course delivery details
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 will 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.
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Cranfield University
Cranfield is a specialist postgraduate university that is a global leader for education and transformational research in technology and management. We have many world-class, large-scale facilities, including our own global research airport, which offers a unique environment for transformational education...