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LEADING INNOVATION PILLAR — Innovation and Digital Transformation for Business (4 days)
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| Industry 4.0 Trends and Technologies | - Gain an overview of the latest Industry 4.0 global trends and technologies and their applications in smart/ advanced manufacturing solutions and smart cities.
- Appreciate the benefits and applications of sensors and Industrial Internet of Things (IoT).
- Experience some of these cutting-edge technologies through company/corporate laboratory visit.
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| Disruptive Technology, Strategy and Business Transformation | - Develop a deeper understanding of the key issues of digital transformation and change under different contexts of technological disruption.
- Understanding of such issues is helpful when crafting digital business strategy for your company and implementing digital transformation to achieve your organisational goals.
- Analyse real-life cases and learn from the success and pitfalls of other organisations’ digital transformation journeys.
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Design Thinking and TRIZ for Innovation and New Opportunities
| - Grasp the key principles of Design Thinking and Human-Centered Design (HCD) and explore how they enhance user experience and product design.
- Understand the fundamentals of TRIZ – Theory of Inventive Problem Solving and discuss real-world
examples where TRIZ has been successfully applied.
- Discuss how to integrate these methodologies into real professional practice.
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LEADING BUSINESS PILLAR — Finance, AI and Analytics for Management (4 days)
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| Process Innovation | - Introduction to process innovation – understand main challenges in managing processes
- Process Analysis and Design - understand how processes can be analysed and measured, designed/redesigned and improved
- Process Interruptions
- Inventory control in process management
- Understand how technology plays an enabler role in process innovation
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| Business Finance for Decision Making | - Understand and interpret financial statements to make strategic decisions
- Perform financial analysis to assess the financial health of a company.
- Evaluate strategic choices involved in capital budgeting, including estimation of project cash flows, measurement of cost of capital and appropriate financing mix.
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| Business Insights and Data-driven Decisions | - Understand what analytics entails and the value proposition to business.
- Recognise the elements of an effective analytics strategy
- Learn a practical framework to structure, communicate and manage risk in analytics projects.
- Understand the process of converting data into actionable insights for decision-making.
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| Generative AI and Machine Learning for Leaders | - Compare Analytics vs Machine Learning vs AI vs Generative AI
- Appreciate the applications, risks and possibilities of AI and Generative AI
- Use a predictive model to make automated data-driven decisions
- Case studies to reinforce understanding and application of the above digital tools to business
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LEADING PEOPLE PILLAR — Transformational Leadership amid Disruption (4 days)
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| Agile Leadership in the age of Disruption | - Gain insights on the impact of digital transformation on leadership, organization and business.
- Understand how to drive digital transformation and how to build a digital-ready culture.
- Develop a strategic mindset and agile leadership capabilities to drive growth in the digital age.
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| Leading and Managing Change | - Apply essential change management models and organisation development concepts to real-life situations in the workplace.
- Develop a mindset to reduce resistance and accept/embrace change.
- Identify the critical attributes of leaders and their key roles during change.
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| Managing Dilemmas in Decision Making | - Life of a leader is filled with contradictory challenges and difficult decisions. Organisations stand to gain when their leaders are able to shift these perceived “either/or” tensions to “both/and” possibilities.
- Manage paradox with the 6As framework: acknowledgement, acceptance, aim, action, authenticity, and accumulation.
- Learn to articulate a paradox challenge (e.g. short term vs long term plan), apply techniques to manage the paradox, implement the solution, evaluate and continuously iterate and improve.
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| EQ and Communication for Leaders | - Communicate with executive presence to build credibility and influence
- Engage, motivate and inspire to get buy-ins from your team, management, customers and other stakeholders.
- Demonstrate empathy and active listening in communication, especially in employee engagement.
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