Digital Skills Transformation: Assessing, Defining & Enabling the Workforce of the Future

A Complimentary CIMdata Educational Webinar with Peter Bilello, President & CEO, CIMdata

25 June 2020
11:00 EDT | 08:00 PDT | 17:00 CEDT

Do any of the following statements sound familiar?

You know you need to transform your employee’s skills, but you don’t know where or how to start.
You have a high turnover of your skilled workforce, and you wish to provide a more rewarding environment where skills are enhanced and improved with the future in mind.
You have realized that process transformation and the implementation of new product development methods (e.g., agile, systems engineering, and generative design) and tools (e.g., PLM, 3D CAD, and various S&A solutions) require new and enhanced skills to be useful. Still, you don’t know how to best transition your workforce.
Your current education and training structures are non-existent or out-of-date.
You have spent a lot of money on new technologies, but you don’t see the return on investment you expected.

Digital Transformation, like most major enterprise initiatives that have come before it, requires a company to rethink much of its systems, processes, and organizational elements. For many companies, the most overlooked transformational element is the set of skills that must be identified, nurtured, and further developed throughout its organizational structure. To be a success, the company must not only digitally transform the way it does business, but it must also change the skills of its employees in the context of its broader transformation objectives. To accomplish this, a company must define its digital skills transformation in such a manner that it forms a lasting structure for training, education, and skill enhancement tied directly to the current and future roles and responsibilities of its employees. The resulting education and training framework, implementation, and support structure needs to cover several different organizational processes and supporting technology platforms (i.e., PDM, CAD, System Modeling & Simulation, etc.), as well as varied experience and skill levels into one repeatable standard implemented throughout the enterprise, no matter its size or complexity. With such a structure in place, the enterprise is in a better position to proactively handle growth, reduce employee turnover, and successfully deal with technological and process changes.

What will I learn?

You will learn how a company-specific digital skills transformation strategy can be developed by determining needs, analyzing potential participants, and establishing goals.
You will understand the elements of a company-specific digital skills transformation framework.
You will learn about the need for and structure of a digital skills assessment, including the roles that a company’s goals and objectives, development and execution of evaluation strategies, and associated tools all play.
You will understand the critical elements of a company-specific digital skills transformation implementation roadmap.

Who should attend?

Chief Digital Officers, business transformation leads, human resource, training, and development leads, PLM program managers, digital process owners, digital tool owners, solution providers, and anyone interested in learning more about this topic.

During the webinar you’ll also have the opportunity to ask questions about the topics discussed.