For effective asset management, leaders require up-to-the-minute knowledge and skills at the heart of this organisational capability. Often overlooked, but of critical importance, is also acquiring the ability to communicate the benefits of asset management to colleagues across the hierarchy. This includes the realisation that such a task will include embedding change management and dealing with potential resistance. Only with this understanding can SAMTI be implemented effectively.
Thanks to this programme's holistic approach, participants can expect to gain the understanding needed to both implement SAMTI effectively and to orient, from board level to shop floor, an organisation's mindset and culture.
Real-world Solutions
Offering an unmatched focus on strategic management and transformational change, teaching will apply directly to participants' own case studies and workplace challenges. This ensures learning delivers actionable, real-world solutions.
A Legacy of Knowledge and Change
Programme learning enables participants to disseminate knowledge to colleagues and teams. What's learned in the classroom can be brought to the boardroom and beyond. That means best practice can rapidly become the norm across the entire organisation.
Major Programme Features
Careful design has created a programme championing an all-encompassing view of physical asset management. This approach helps deliver the skills and capabilities leaders require to integrate strategy, governance, and best business practice. Major programme components include:
- The expert view: intensive seminars from faculty members
- A dynamic experience: combination of action learning and facilitated learning
- Participant support: in-session coaching and mentoring provided throughout the programme
- The tools to effect change: a focus on strategic thinking
- Practical results: building capability that can be put directly into practice
- Invaluable benchmarking: against industrial and governmental standards
- Practical outcomes: underpinned by cutting edge theory
Leading Strategic Change
Facilitator: Professor John Amis, Chair in Strategic Management & Organisation, University of Edinburgh Business School
This session will focus on how to lead strategic change in an organisation. It will examine the obstacles and challenges faced, and how to manage and lead these.
Strategy as Practice
Facilitator: Dr Kristina Potočnik, Senior Lecturer in Human Resource Management, University of Edinburgh Business School
This session talks about how resilience for managing change can be built in teams in order to effectively implement change initiatives. It will also cover some strategies about how to manage resistance to change.
Governance and the Organisation
Facilitator: Professor Jake Ansell, Professor of Risk Management, University of Edinburgh Business School
This session will deal with the issues of ensuring a strategic approach to governance of the organisation by exploring the goals of the organisation in relation to physical infrastructure asset management. As illustration, it will consider risk governance, risk reporting, and the embeddedness of risk within organisations.
Organisation and Effectiveness
Facilitator: Professor Wendy Loretto, Professor of Organisational Behaviour and Dean of the University of Edinburgh Business School
This session will draw on empirical cases of implementing change programmes, focusing on practical lessons to highlight benefits of change to individuals and how to overcome common pitfalls of implementation.
TOTEX Approach
Facilitator: Manjit Bains, Director of Asset Management Business School Ltd
This session explores the thinking driving a total expenditure approach in organisations. It will share examples from the water industry and cover business risk, value, and investment planning on how to make strategic asset management decisions.