Huawei, Henley Business School complete executive development for du and partners

du, from Emirates Integrated Telecommunications Company, announced that its first batch of employees, including Emirati senior executives and members of three partners: Virgin, Mubadala and American University of Sharjah, have completed an Executive Leadership Development Programme (ELDP) by Huawei and Henley Business School in the UK. The course offered insight from three key perspectives – industry, business and leadership.

Led by ICT specialists from the Huawei Management Training Institute and expert faculty in transformation and leadership from Henley Business School, the intensive executive programme focused on improving the understanding and knowledge of 5G networking technologies, while developing digital leadership competencies. Huawei experts brought together key aspects of management and operations to help participants grow into leaders that can support ICT transformation, making du more agile and improve execution capabilities.

This aligns with du’s commitment to developing the next generation of leaders who have a global and innovation mindset and preparing them to orchestrate and lead digital transformation and service innovation, identify business opportunities and improve digital competitiveness.

The programme provided participants with the practical knowledge and tools that assist in setting an agenda and defining a roadmap with a focus on Strategy, Business, Organisation and Culture in their digital transformation journey. It helped du employees explore new ideas and mindsets to help and strengthen du’s leadership in the digital transformation.