Rob Armstrong is Vice President of Mechanical Engineering at Leonardo, a top-ten global aerospace, defence, and security organisation with 53,000 employees and deep roots in the UK defence supply chain. In this episode he traces his journey from operations graduate to the senior leader driving Leonardo’s UK digital transformation: the Future Factory Programme, a data-driven decision-making culture that now runs from the shop floor to the managing director’s leadership meetings, and the early deployment of a proprietary, secure AI model. His message stays constant throughout: however good the technology, transformation lives or dies on whether you bring your people along for the journey.
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