ANALYSIS AND EVALUATION OF TECHNOLOGIES AND RELATED IMPACT ON SOCIO-ECONOMIC SYSTEMS

Single discipline educational activity

Course Sheet

Academic Year of enrolment:

2018/2019

Type of Course:

Related/Supplementary

Optional/Mandatory:

Optional

Degree:

Master's Degree Programme in SOCIAL WORK AND SOCIAL POLICIES

Disciplinary Sector:

Commodity Studies

Language:

Italian

Credits:

Programme Year:

Professor and Collaborators:

TOLA Alessio

Hours of classroom activity:

Prerequisites:

None

AF code:

A000949

Assessment Methods

Verification of learning:

One written test (6 open questions) and an oral examination

Teaching period

Second semester

Objectives

The main objective of this course is to analyse the main management issues of complex productive chains and operations of the tourism sector.
Training sessions, team assignments and case study sessions will allow the students to acquire the skills and competences necessary to approach the everyday decisional processes faced by companies active in the tourism business. The course aims at illustrating the structural and procedural facts of productive systems, with specific reference to the variables associated with strategic choices and operational management decisions. The course focuses on the logical approach used to determine the main choices connected to the technical variables of the company, their economic consequences and the mutual links existing between the different functional areas

Contents

Programme:

• Managing the production process
• Planning and monitoring production
• The phases of process planning and monitoring
• Techniques for process monitoring
• The aggregate production plan
• The operative production plan
• Quality and safety in the productive chain

• Physiology of productive systems
• Strategic choices and design leverage
• Taxonomy of the productive processes
• Measuring the performance of productive systems
• The role of demand in the choice of the production capacity
• Measuring potential and productivity
• Measuring versatility and flexibility

• Technology and innovation
• The current technological revolution
• Technology life cycle
• Research and development of new technologies
• Technological and Scientific Parks
• Technology Transfer
• Technological developments in the fields of electronics and ICT
• Quality and Quality control in the production chain

Case study

Recommended Bibliography

Tola A., Cannata M, La mente ben fatta, Individuo e impresa nella società delle reti. Una conversazione sulla rivoluzione dolce, Arkadia, 2016. pp. 7-105.

Grando, Verona, Vicari, Tecnologia, Innovazione, Operations, Egea, latest issue available, pp. XI-XVIII; 3-40.

E. Chiacchierini, Tecnologia e produzione, Cedam, latest issue available, pp. 1-49, 99-116.

Methods of Provision

Conventional

Teaching Methods

Frontal lessons, classroom exercises

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