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Stellantis: driving innovation by investing in employees’ digital skills
Across all industries, competition is growing, and companies are increasingly recognizing the fundamental role of employee training in strengthening their bottom line. As companies strive to remain innovative, investing in their people is increasing in importance.
In 2023, the World Economic Forum forecasts that 44% of workers’ skills will be disrupted in the next five years, up from 35% in 2016.
With a community of more than 160 nationalities, industrial operations in 30+ countries, and in over 130 markets, Stellantis is one of the most diverse companies in the world and has an ability to unite people and ideas across borders and cultures.
Identifying ways to engage and upskill existing employees
In 2022,
To support this, Stellantis is dedicated to ensuring it has the tech talent required to enable their transition to zero-emission connected vehicles. One way they’re doing this is through their learning academies. By focusing on upskilling and reskilling employees from any area in the company, they are not only accelerating their current knowledge and skills, but also their career progression and mobility across data and software, and electrification roles internally. Stellantis has already seen over 1,000 employees from their software function sign up to take part in the academies to learn a new field or update their digital, tech, and cloud skills.
Minoo Monajjemi Nejad, a Stellantis employee, became a Scrum Master, following her involvement in one of the academies. “From the very first moment I decided to make this shift in my career, I received precious support from various people starting with my manager who helped me to make that shift possible, my scrum master colleagues helping me integrate successfully, and the training I received, helping me take the role with much more confidence.”
Launching a dedicated tech and cloud training program
In addition to their academies, Stellantis, in collaboration with
By adopting the
The TechXelerate strategy focuses on three key areas:
- Develop a culture of innovation that empowers people to take considered risks as a necessary input to innovation. In turn, Stellantis encourages employees to experiment and re-learn new ways of working;
- Provide employees with the time, permission, and means to develop their skills, whilst ensuring that up-to-date and relevant training opportunities are made available to them; and
- Excite and inspire employees about what’s happening in the world of tech (i.e., current trends), whilst enabling them to be customer centric when applying their new skills.
“There is an intense and competitive search for talent in the market today. To support the overall transformation to a mobility tech company, Stellantis continues to evolve its workforce by offering opportunities to learn new skills outside their existing skillset or enhance current skills,” said Anne Fenninger, VP and Head of Data Software Academy at Stellantis.
Unlocking innovation
For Stellantis, success is defined by the impact the training has on its people, and they’ve outlined the majority of these success measures by:
- Upskilling and/or reskilling 5,000 employees in cloud technologies and innovation;
- How well employees apply and utilize their newly acquired tech and cloud skills;
- How many innovative ideas are being created and shared by employees; and
- The number of experiments conducted and lessons learned from them.
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