On 15th of December, the undergraduates in Management studies participated in the workshop «LEAN. How to develop business?». The administrative and management studies students are keen to know how to create a successful business and run it. At the seminar, the leading lectors from Lviv Business School and experts in Sustainable Development Goals implementation shared their experience about the business design towards modern trends. As a term, Lean manufacturing was coined in 1988 and was transformed from Toyota’s Operating Model. This principle of lean manufacturing, if implemented, may lead to leaps in resources economizing and innovation acceleration. The experts performed the primary approach “to think globally, act locally” through the set of cases of Ukrainian enterprises and SMEs.
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The School of Change Leaders was launched on November 27 and completed successfully. This project received the Sumy City Council's support as the winner of the project competition among the civil society institutions in December last year.
"School of Change Leaders of " is a unique project aimed at building civil society, forming a stable civic position in modern conditions, gaining practical project design skills and costs processing of participatory community budgets.
The project manager is Larysa Valenkevych, PhD., the project manager of the NGO "Center for Lifelong Learning", associate professor of Oleg Balatsky department of management. She took care of that project for many years, and now it was scaled-up and went online. The trainers and consultants were well-known project management experts, winners of project competitions, specialists in the field of public administration, experienced facilitators, and international keynote speakers.
The intensive training program lasted on November 27 and 28 online, in which high school students of Sumy UTC took part. During the training, participants gained knowledge of project management, drafting project applications to achieve the grants, and designing their projects.
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On 8th of December, the students of several training programs of different levels (Master studies and Undergraduates) were united by the lecture provided by designers, who created the brand of Sumy city. The representatives of the creative agency LLC “Chocolate”, Yulia Yevenko, the chief director and Iryna Bozadjieva, the manager of the clients support department, kindly agreed to be the guest lecturers. The lecture-seminar took place in two languages – in Ukrainian and English. That allowed to involve the students who study at Sumy State University in English and came from other countries. During the meeting, our guest lecturers shared their experience collaborating with Sumy Council on the city brand creation. They encouraged the auditorium to pursue city promotion using positive impressions about the city. The seminar dragged on because of the discussion that transformed into ideas exchange about how to attract “your type of a client”, how to make positioning effective, and how much does it cost – the efforts and own investments – to create the product that you are going to be proud in years.
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“Any time we meet someone different from us, we need to start by looking at ourselves”