Automation & Robotics in Operations
Automate the operation where machines genuinely win.
The executive challenge
The problem this program solves
You are asked to deliver automation faster, cheaper and with less risk every year — while the tools, the contracts and the capability were built for a slower world. Every unrehearsed automation decision becomes a claim, and every claim is settled on someone else's terms. This is where automation stops being managed by slide and becomes managed by signal: earned value, constraint logic and honest milestones.
Context
Why this matters now
Capability
What you will be able to do
- Govern automation programmes so they deliver on time, cost and purpose.
- Negotiate automation claims and variations from strength, not hope.
- Stress-test automation supply chains and operations for resilience, not just cost.
- Read a automation programme from its data — schedule, cost and quality signals — before visiting site.
The IPAT Course Standard
The five-day journey
Each day is a deliberate progression in managerial capability — from strategic context, to analytical frameworks, to applied practice, to executive judgement under pressure, to a capstone that produces something your organisation keeps.
IPAT Signature Case™
The Platform Nobody Used
A government spent $40m on a procurement platform at a consumer-goods manufacturer. Adoption is 22%, suppliers complain, auditors question value, and the vendor blames change management.
Your decision: Rescue, enforce, or replace — and design the adoption strategy that makes automation behave differently.
IPAT Data Lab™
A programme portfolio at a national roads agency cannot see which projects are quietly failing.
Dataset: Synthetic cost, schedule and quality data for a 25-project portfolio at a national roads agency.
Your task: Diagnose the overrun drivers, separate noise from signal, and design recovery for the worst three.
A project performance dashboard and intervention plan.
Data → Analysis → Decision, not Data → Code → Certificate
Day 5 · The Capstone
What will you change when you return to work?
Build the delivery blueprint for your organisation's most important programme: governance, controls, commercial strategy and the first 90 days.
Methodology
Frameworks you will master
- • IPAT Transformation Architecture™
- • IPAT Data-to-Decision Framework™
- • Stage-gate delivery governance
- • Earned value management
- • Lean and Six Sigma foundations
Cohorts
Upcoming cohorts
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