SUMMARY OF TOPICS
1) The management: strategic management; global competitiveness; the socio-economic and technological; resources and competitive advantage; strategies for entrepreneurship and innovation.
2) Technologies: new technologies and their impact on economic, social and environmental; applications of new technologies to the production processes; technology and organization of production: from Taylorism to Fordism to Toyotism; organizational models.
3) Technological innovation: the origins of technological innovation; sources of innovation; forms and models of innovation; technology cycles; strategic innovation.
4) The production processes: the production process; the types of production processes; productivity; logical push and pull; Just in Time; lean production; models of production management and human resources.
5) Quality: definition of quality; history of quality; from control to quality management; the principles of quality; quality certification; quality, environment, safety
Expected learning outcomes
1) Knowledge and understanding skills.
Understand the strategic success factors of a company (quality and innovation), the organization of an firm in terms of production processes and the technological innovation applied.
2) Ability to apply knowledge and understanding.
Learning elementary tools to judge the efficiency and effectiveness of a business system, its production processes, and quality-oriented strategies and technological innovation.
3) Autonomy of judgment.
Know how to identify Key Business Success Factors and know how to apply these factors in all firms, both product and service sectors.
4) Communication Skills.
Ability to communicate knowledge gained.
5) Learning Skills.
Ability to transfer knowledge gained through case study application.