IBLDP

Industrial Base Leadership

Development Program

DURATION:

5-day program

LOCATION

Research Triangle Area, NC

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The Future is Now

IDB’s IBLDP program is a dynamic one-week program designed to help you acquire new insights to enhance your organization’s ability to understand and act on the myriad challenges—and opportunities—that face the organic industrial base and impact Joint Force readiness.  At its core, it is anchored to solving specific challenges—current and emergent—to readiness challenges facing key leaders from throughout the public and private industrial base.  The course was developed and tailored to provide a unique learning opportunity for experienced leaders in key roles across the industrial base shaping strategy, funding, and policy that impacts materiel readiness across the Joint Force, and their Private Industry and Sustainer counterparts. Specific outcomes include greater policy and operational alignment and coordination, greater unity of purpose, broad exploration and implementation of best practices; these outcomes are intended to provide key industrial base organizations and stakeholders with a mature, confident, creative, experienced cadre of leaders across the breadth and width of the entire enterprise.

Pre-Register
  • Drivers of the OIB: Gain familiarity with Title 10 Statutes that govern and guide the Defense Industrial Base 21 Covered Depots
  • Financial Foundations of the OIB: Gain familiarity with Working Capital Funds, Navy shipyard mission funds and explore topics such as private equity, profit & loss, assets & liabilities, statement of cash flow, and cash-to-cash conversion cycle (C2C)
  • Advanced Manufacturing and Maintenance Techniques: Develop familiarization with AM advances across the OIB (CNC machining, additive manufacturing (3D printing), precision welding to support defense production)
  • Data Fluency, AI, and How to Use It: Develop familiarity with data-driven technologies, to include AI applications being used across the industrial base (i.e. predictive analytics, industrial automation and robotics) and enhanced ability to act upon the data in a timely way to make more sophisticated and effective decisions. Improve decision-making to hours, not months
  • Workforce Development: Develop familiarity with issues and initiatives to address the challenge to acquire, develop and retain a talented workforce
  • Next Generation Systems Thinking, Complexity and Debiasing: Isolate and solve discrete Industrial Base challenges that impact Joint Force readiness by learning and applying non-traditional, problem-solving frameworks and integrated approaches to reduce psychological biases in decision making and managing and understanding complex systems
  • Industry relations, best practices and understanding: Conduct a business study tour of a private sector organization, with exposure to commercial strategic planning for manufacturing, repair, and overhaul, logistics and supply chain operations
  • Performance metrics and indicators: Develop familiarity and apply simulation-based optimization and process simulation to industrial base specific challenges, including: depot production metrics, capacity utilization, core capabilities, reserve core and non-core capacity, carry-in and carry-over, equipment and facilities condition metrics
  • Talent Management and Workforce Development: Develop familiarity with issues and solutions to the challenge to acquire, develop and retain a talented workforce
  • Expansion of Professional Network: Opportunity to network and make connections with esteemed faculty, experience mentors, and program peers to foster collaboration, exchange of insights, and growth opportunities

The program provides multiple delivery methods
for adult learning:

SAMPLE SESSION TOPICS INCLUDE:

  • Traditional classroom in-residence
  • Expert-led group discussions
  • Small group case studies
  • Guest speakers
  • Online learning
  • In-class exercises and simulations
  • Private industry site visits

Public Sector: GS-13 to GS-15 and O-4 to O-6

Private Sector: Stakeholders that shape Strategy Funding, and Policy that impacts the DIB

Expansive and unrestricted access to institution experts

  • Wake Forest University School of Business
  • University of North Carolina – Chapel Hill
  • North Carolina State University
  • Industry Executives
  • Current and Former Senior DoW Executives

Program sessions, faculty, dates, and pricing, although current at the time of publication, are subject to change.

Tuition:

$9,000/person
Includes tuition, materials, meals, and lodging

Click here to pre-register.

For additional information contact us at solutions@idb.org or 919-969-8008.

Program sessions, faculty, dates, and pricing, although current at the time of publication, are subject to change