ST Engineering Annual Report 2020

Q/ As Group COO (Technology & Innovation), how do you plan to instill and inspire innovation across the Group? Across the group, we are driven to deliver innovative solutions for our customers. Innovation stems from understanding a customer’s challenges, and having the knowledge, resources and tenacity to solve them. So we inspire innovation by firstly, increasing customer-centricity across the Group, building deeper and more strategic engagements with customers and partners in technology ecosystems. Actively participating and collaborating at the ecosystem level also gives us access to the latest technological developments. It is also my desire to foster more cross-domain collaborations internally, to increase knowledge- sharing and the cross-pollination of ideas. Hence, in the new organisational structure, many of our businesses will have greater access to advanced technology and engineering resources through the new Group Engineering Centre (GEC). The GEC and our Group Technology Office will accelerate the Group’s digitalisation push to embed digital innovation into our products and solutions. At the GEC, we will build engineering competencies through continuous learning and innovation. Being experts in their respective fields, our engineers are constantly challenged with engineering problems that spur them to innovate and to find new solutions. Lastly, to inspire innovation, we aim to include design thinking as a foundation module for all engineers Group-wide as part of their structured training roadmap. We will also increase our focus on experiential training for our engineers. They will have opportunities to embark on their research, study for their Masters or PhD programmes as part of their training roadmap to deepen domain knowledge, as well as to interact with their peers to explore and discover new innovative trends in their area. Q&A WITH RAVINDER Group Chief Operating Officer (Technology & Innovation) President/Head, Defence & Public Security "Innovation stems from understanding a customer’s challenges, and having the knowledge, resources and tenacity to solve them." / ST ENG I NEER I NG 32