Digital leadership:

Downloading a Digital Mindset

Co-funded by our industry partners and:

EQUIPPING LEADERS WITH THE
SKILLS TO LEAD DIGITAL CHANGE
• The Construction industry is on the verge of a digital
revolution with new digital technologies enabling better
use of data for the simulation and automation of
construction processes in the design studio, the project
management team, the product factory, the onsite
assembly process and in the ongoing use and maintenance
of the asset.
• Managers and leaders need to develop the management
skills and technology knowledge to embed a digital
approach into their business strategies.
• Working with the CITB, Thames Tideway, Costain and
Skanska and with the support of numerous industry
contractors and suppliers, the Supply Chain School has
developed an interactive digital learning programme that
will equip leaders with the skills to lead digital change.
• Partners of the School and their supply chains can access
the programme at no additional cost, thanks to the
industry support of the CITB.
 “Digital Leadership training opened the
minds of our leadership team to the
OUR PROGRAMME benefits and challenges with the
introduction of new digital technology,
resulting in readily identifying potential
and realisation of benefits from the
• Our Downloading a Digital Mindset programme mixes cases studies of technology adoption cultivation and adoption of technology to
from leading projects and contractors in our sector, with the academic knowledge of Digital the benefit of the project in the short term
but also the benefit to the business in the
Outlook to deliver this through the multi-award winning www.supplychainschool.co.uk, long term”. Neil Grosset - Project Director
cloud-based learning platform. at Costain Group PLC
• The programme is completely free to partners of the Supply Chain School and will provide
you and your colleagues with:
• Over 20 hours of digital learning broken down into;
• 5 hours of virtual classroom
• 4 hours of CPD accredited e-learning
• 2 Harvard Business School digital leadership teaching cases “We can’t expect our businesses to
magically digitally optimise without giving
• Access to over 100 additional digital learning resources our leaders a broad awareness of the
technology, the benefits, the enablers, the
• Individual level digital leadership skills assessment and benchmarking opportunity and the risk to project delivery.
We need digital evangelists leading our
• Corporate level digital maturity assessment and benchmarking projects and workstreams, and this
learning pathway is a great catalyst to a
• Your own personal learning management system to keep track of all the training and digital by default approach”. Mark Tootell
certificates that you gain through the programme. - Project Information Systems
Director · Costain Group PLC
• This course is available to SCSS Partners for free (limited availability) and at a commercial
rate.
WHAT YOU WILL LEARN
By completing this digital leadership learning programme,
you will be better able to embed a digital approach into
their business strategies.
You will understand how to:
• Evaluate the benefits and value of digitalisation,
including process improvement and technical
interventions
• Deliver the cultural change needed to achieve digital
transformation
• Evaluate your digital corporate readiness
• Understand the link between data, digital
technologies, productivity, value and innovation
• Deliver digital transformation in a project
environment
• Embed digital requirements into the supply chain
procurement process
THE DIGITAL LEADERSHIP STUDENT’S JOURNEY

Introduction to
Pre-reading of Harvard Digital Leadership Virtual
Digital Leadership Teaching Cases Training Course
Introductory Module
½ day ½ day CPD – accredited course
3 hour CPD accredited course

Additional Resource Re-assessment of

Assessment of Learning Individual Digital Skills
Individual Digital Skills Minimum of ½ day, we have over &
100 resources available Organisational Maturity

Complete 4 Awarded
Assessment of eLearning Modules Supply Chain School
Organisational Digital Each course minimum of 1 hour “Digital Leadership”
Maturity CPD – accredited modules and
certification once passed Badge
 TRAINING NEEDS ANALYSIS
UNDERSTANDING YOUR
DIGITAL LEADERSHIP SKILLS
Our programme will provide you and your colleagues with
a cloud based assessment tool and learning management
system that will enable you all to assess your personal
digital leadership skills and, over time, benchmark against
aggregated data of others in your sector and the wider
After completing the assessment you and your colleagues
will receive a gap analysis and a tailored learning action
plan linking you to the Supply Chain School’s
comprehensive learning library.
 eLearning Modules
• Understand how to recognise the characteristics of a digital leader
• Understand the Digital Competencies required of a digital leader
Digital Leadership • Understand how to develop a digital strategy
• Understand the risks and benefits of digital adoption

• Understand how to create a framework to assess the risks of digital investment

Business Case for • Understand how to create a framework to assess the value - including non-financial - of
digital investment

Digital • Understand how to simulate and automate decision making and drive better business
outcomes
• Understanding whole-life costs and benefits

• Understand data journey - capture, transfer and analyse, simulate, automate.

Digital Adoption • Understand how digital can solve problems and drive improvements though the project
lifecycle
• Understand key underpinning technologies such as AI, IoT, Block Chain and 5G

• Understand how to implement a cyber security strategy that covers people, processes and
Cyber Security physical assets
• Understand how to manage known and emerging IT security threats
Harvard Business School based teaching approach
Our courses are delivered in a virtual classroom using the Harvard Business School’s teaching case methodology. We have undertaken
research into digital adoption in the £4.2bn Thames Tideway project and by researching Skanska’s approach to delivering technology -ed
innovation in their supply chain. These real-world cases provide learning for the whole industry on how best to lead digital projects in projects,
contractors and their supply chains.

. Digital Outlook Our Method:

• Dr. Beth Morgan and Dr. Eleni Papadonikolaki • Eleni and Beth are both certified in the
from Digital Outlook undertook our research Harvard Case Teaching methodology.
in to digital adoption in Tideway and Skanska The methodology was designed
and have developed our Digital Leadership specifically for teaching executives in
virtual training course to bring the benefits to
the sector. the business world.

• Delivered through their consultancy, Digital • Our flipped-classroom approach

Outlook, the course uses collaborative engages the audience through our
approaches to learning, to help firms, their virtual classroom featuring highly
managers and their leaders to develop the interactive sessions that focus on
knowledge and capabilities needed to meet managerial dilemmas. The sessions
the challenges and realise the opportunities have been tested and peered reviewed
of digital transformation. by a wide range of managers in the
construction and infrastructure sectors.
Digital Leadership
TIDEWAY’s DIGITAL EVOLUTION

Learning objectives :
 Debate and unpack the idea of digital leadership and
the importance of transactional vs transformational
leadership styles.
 Critically evaluate the importance of the use of
technologies in context (rather than the artefact).
 Explore ways in which digital technologies contribute
to productivity and how this can be quantified.
Digital Leadership
SKANSKA’s DIGITAL SUPPLY CHAIN

Learning objectives:
 To understand what informs digital innovation
investment decisions.
 To identify the reasons of failed digital innovation.
 To evaluate how Skanska measures the digital
readiness of its supply chain.
 To develop ideas for improving the digital capabilities
across the supply chain as the digital innovation
landscape changes.
 DIGITAL MATURITY MATRIX
UNDERSTANDING YOUR
ORGANISATION’S DIGITAL MATURITY
AND THAT OF YOUR SUPPLY CHAIN’S

Our program will provide you with a cloud based tool with which you can
assess your own organisation’s digital maturity and over time benchmark
against aggregated data of others in your sector and the wider industry.
Once you have completed your own assessment, you can then provide the
tool for your own suppliers and indeed your customers, to understand
where they sit on the digital adoption curve.
By completing the assessment you’ll receive a gap analysis and a tailored
learning action plan linking you to the Supply Chain School’s comprehensive
learning library.
 Digital Maturity Assessment – gap analysis output

Your organisation’s maturity against target Supplier A performance against target

Target
Series1 Your company
Series2 Target Company

Leadership Leadership
Digitally enabled Facilities 5 Digitally enabled Facilities 5
Strategy Strategy
Management 4.5 Management 4.5
Digitally enabled construction 4 Collaboration Digitally enabled construction 4 Collaboration
3.5 3.5
3 3
Digitally enabled manufacture 2.5 Innovation 2.5
Digitally enabled manufacture Innovation
2 2
1.5 1.5
1 1
Digitally enabled procurement 0.5 Investment Digitally enabled procurement 0.5 Investment
0 0

Digitally enabled design Value of information Digitally enabled design Value of information

Digitally enabled management Value definition

Digitally enabled management Value definition

Information security Customers

Information security Customers
Suppliers Employees
Suppliers Employees
 NEXT STEPS
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