TECHNOLOGY MANAGEMENT
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Models, methods, techniques and tools to select, manage and evaluate technologies; new models and business strategies based on ICT; Public Administration and new technologies; new technologies in service firms; organizing the transfer of technological innovation; defining the technological strategy; technological forecasting |
INNOVATION MANAGEMENT
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Generation, transfer and dissemination of innovation; new technologies, industrial districts and networks for innovation; open innovation; organizing and managing research and development |
NEW PRODUCT DVELOPMENT PROCESS
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Plan of new products; the phases of the new product development process and the Stage-Gate model; identifying customer needs; defining product specifications; defining product concept; product architecture; economic analysis of new product development |
PROJECT MANAGEMENT
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Multi-project management; managing projects of technological and/or organizational/managerial innovation with high uncertainty; project risk management |
INNOVATION AND ENTERPRENEURSHIP
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Individual competences and propensity towards entrepreneurship; institutional context and entrepreneurship; technological innovation and entrepreneurship; intellectual property; patent management; international entrepreneurship |
OPERATIONS & SUPPLY CHAIN MANAGEMENT
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Lean production & lean supply chain management; supply chain management; innovation in the ICT sector for operations management; supply management; production and logistic planning systems; manufacturing and distribution logistic; material handling in inbound and outbound logistic; international operations management; sustainable operations; performance management systems |
QUALITY MANAGEMENT
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Total quality management; six sigma e lean quality management; information systems for quality; managing supplier quality |
SERVICE MANAGEMENT
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Managing services within manufacturing firms; lean service |
MASS CUSTOMIZATION
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Product configuration; overcoming the trade‐off variety vs. operation performance; product, process and supply chain planning for mass customization; mass customization and environmental management |
COMPLEXITY MANAGEMENT
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Managing human resources diversity; managing internationalization processes; principles of complexity; designing complex systems |
BUSINESS ORGANIZATION
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Models to diagnose and organizational design; knowledge management; communities of practice; managing individual and organizational competences; valuation/management of intangible assets; business process re-engineering; organizing and managing networked enterprises; ambidexterity |
STRATEGY
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Corporate e business strategy; functional strategies; corporate social responsibilities; dynamic capabilities; business models; strategic alliances |
BIG DATA AND DATA ANALYTICS
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Building Big Data – technological and organizational constraints; using Big Data in different industrial contexts – analysis of the impact on performance; organizational problems related to Big Data exploitation |
INDUSTRY 4.0
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Industrial domains of Industry 4.0; analysis of the impact on performance; technological and organizational constraints in adopting Industry 4.0; managing technology transfer in Industry 4.0; defining the digital strategy; blockchain |
RISK MANAGEMENT
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Risk management in SMEs; risk management in the healthcare sector; supply chain risk |