Powering resilience through disruption with digital learning

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The world of business and technology changes rapidly, and events such as the COVID-19 pandemic have introduced new disruptions. Many employees have taken up new flexible working arrangements by working from home, changing the way they do everyday tasks such as collaborating with teams. Businesses severely affected have had to halt operations as customer demand plummeted or supply chains are disrupted. But amid this, there is an opportunity. As businesses and people adapt to the new normal, we can make the best out of this break in the legacy ways of doing things to skill up, prepare for the recovery phase, and add value to the business in the future.

Digital approaches open up opportunities amid disruption

Digitalisation helps put businesses in a better position to manage challenges from the disruption.

Since the business and movement restrictions, our colleagues have transitioned quickly to digital forms of connecting with co-workers and customers. To maintain a certain level of productivity and collaboration, we utilise video conferencing solutions to facilitate discussions and encourage and inspire one another. Digital and engineering teams are also working even more closely during this period to help customers find insights into past aero engine performance to discover areas to optimise and prepare for long-term recovery. Our colleagues’ collective ability to adapt and be resilient has allowed us to continue our mission-critical products and services.

Digital Academy: upskilling for the future anytime, anywhere

The digital culture we have created helps drive the upskilling for our employees as well —before and during this disruptive period. For instance, we created the Digital Academy, a digital skills training programme for our staff. In the last two years, the academy has been training Rolls-Royce’s employees as the business embarked on a journey to transform into one of the world’s leading industrial technology companies.

The Digital Academy includes digital skills modules developed by Rolls-Royce and fundamental for our employees – business intelligence, Internet of Things, building an agile mindset, the power of data, and data privacy. These lessons help staff embrace new ways of working, which is crucial during this time of rapid change. A group of employee volunteers, our Digital Pioneers, also help to facilitate these lessons and the digital education journey.

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Alastair Sim, Rolls-Royce’s TotalCare Manager, and Digital Pioneer, on the relevance of the Digital Academy courses to the team.

Building resilience through skills for today and tomorrow

In May 2020, we opened our Digital Academy to the public. With this move, people and businesses in Singapore and the region can gain access to online courses on topics such as data, artificial intelligence, machine learning and coding.

This will help strengthen business resilience in the face of a rapidly changing business landscape, and also prepare organisations for the road to recovery. Digitalisation has been disrupting businesses for years, and companies can take this time to truly accelerate their digital adoption, skills and transformation. The Digital Academy can particularly benefit SMEs and people who are in between jobs—the two groups that are likely to bear the brunt of the impact caused by the slowdown. By offering in-depth courses on the latest digital technologies for free, the Digital Academy gives them a leg up in this time to prepare them for future business and job opportunities.

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The Digital Academy welcomes professionals, students, businesses and like-minded partners, said Gennie Neo, Venturing and Incubation Lead.

Digital Academy brings together external partners that are leaders in their own industries into the Rolls-Royce ecosystem, widening the range and enhancing the depth of the courses offered. One of them is DataCamp, a company that lets learners discover data science, statistics and machine learning from the convenience of their own web browser. Other partners include technology giants such as Google and IBM, with courses that teach practical digital skills and machine learning to children. Hence, the courses also help raise the next generation of technology talent. Young learners, who are now undergoing home-based learning, can explore their interests in STEM, including robotics and artificial intelligence, laying the foundations to pursue a technology career in the future.

With Digital Academy, companies and people have a pathway to help them through an uncertain time and transit to recovery. Offering courses that cultivate skills of the future, the digital platform will help businesses deepen their offerings, build resilience for SMEs and talent, and help raise the next wave of technology professionals.

Prepare for the new digital normal. Sign up for Digital Academy classes at https://www.rolls-royce.com/products-and-services/digital-academy.aspx.

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