Abstract
The objectives of this study are to substantiate the principles of advance education and the requirements for the new generation of educational programs aimed at developing competences for the design, manufacture, operation and maintenance of complex industrial systems integrated into intellectual production, environments, and robotic systems. The study included formulating a hypothesis, refining the conceptual framework, creating the necessary empirical base, reviewing the cases of world leading universities, and presenting and substantiating the main features of advance management education that meet the current challenges. A flexible modular architecture of the educational process was developed which allows making timely adjustments to the content and teaching methods to include new knowledge. The experience of testing the results obtained in consulting practice, in teaching master’s degree students at Ural Federal University (Russia) and in educational projects for leaders and breakthrough teams of large energy corporations is described. The academic novelty of the results lies in the comprehensive examination of the issue of advance education, the conditions and the tools for its implementation within the framework of the proactive management methodology developed by the authors for sustainable business development in a revolutionary and changing industrial landscape.
Highlights
Massive changes are taking place in business, due to digitalization, artificial intelligence, smart manufacturing, systems for guaranteeing safety, reliability and environmental friendliness, energy-saving technologies, and a variety of new tools for working with consumers
The question arises, what fundamental knowledge, what content and depth of study are needed? How to transform this knowledge into the necessary competencies? Should a wide range of knowledge be gained and specific experience and the ability to reflect on your actions be acquired to develop the essential competencies and to successfully operate in the conditions of uncertainty and changeable external environment? Leading universities are actively developing research and managerial training in such areas as systems engineering, future technologies, complex systems’ stability and adaptability, network technologies and distributed architectures, data science, conceptual design, chaos management, self-organization, etc. [47,48,49]
In management education, the share and content of scientific, technical, engineering and technological, technical and economic training should be substantially strengthened, as this is what contributes to the development of the relevant competencies [53]
Summary
Massive changes are taking place in business, due to digitalization, artificial intelligence, smart manufacturing, systems for guaranteeing safety, reliability and environmental friendliness, energy-saving technologies, and a variety of new tools for working with consumers. Connections with continuously updated information technologies will be strengthening, and breakthroughs will mostly occur at the intersection of IT, engineering, social and natural sciences [1,2]. Breakthrough technologies will continue to rapidly penetrate even the traditionally conservative sectors, radically changing the production landscape, business models and enterprise economies [3,4]. An illustration of this trend is the size of the global market for “clean” information technologies (for example, software). Smart technologies change the essence of competition in industries [8], and expand the very concept of “industry”—its borders shift, and new sectors appear [9]. The main competitive advantage is no longer the products as such, but the system that connects them, and the efficiency of the smart equipment service within it [10]
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