Lean Management: Principles and Tools for Continuous Improvement

 
Lean Management & Digital Operational Transformation

Lean management integrated with digital operational transformation. The course combines Lean principles with practical digital implementation in an industrial context.

Competences You Will Develop :

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Knowledge
Understand the foundations of Lean and digital operations
✓ Understand how digital technologies support operational processes.
✓ Interpret and design industrial KPIs and performance metrics.
✓ Explain the relationship between process stability and digital transformation.
✓ Recognize the role of data in operational decision-making.
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Practical Competencies
Apply Lean and digital methods in an industrial environment
✓ Design and use performance boards, including digital ones.
✓ Measure and interpret OEE.
✓ Conduct structured root cause analysis.
✓ Redesign operational flows using Lean principles.
✓ Understand how digital systems such as IoT and dashboards integrate with Lean processes.
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Transferable Skills
Develop a structured and data-driven approach to operational challenges
✓ Process-oriented thinking
✓ Data-driven decision-making
✓ Systemic view of digital transformation
✓ Applied industry-oriented problem solving
Course Subject: Digital Transformation

AI at Work: Who Runs the Office?

How is artificial intelligence transforming the way we work? And how can we ensure that AI augments human capabilities rather than replaces them?

This course follows the AI at Work conference with Samuel Durand, French author and filmmaker specialising in the future of work.

During the conference, Samuel Durand shared insights from his documentary series AI at Work: Who Runs the Office?, which explores how artificial intelligence is reshaping jobs, skills, workplaces, and organisations.

Rather than focusing on the hype or fear surrounding AI, his work invites us to consider the practical challenges of this transformation: How are our jobs changing? How can humans and AI work together? What skills will become increasingly important? And how can organisations make this transition responsible and inclusive?

Through his Work in Progress documentary series, Samuel Durand brings together perspectives from companies, researchers, economists, policymakers, and other experts to explore the changing world of work.

The recording gives you the opportunity to revisit and explore the key ideas discussed during the conference.

The objective is not only to understand how AI is changing work today, but also to consider how we want to shape the future of work with AI.

Shared Resources Library for Life Long Learners

Project Management

Project management, from the standard to the horizon

A reading path in three levels. Foundations gives you the shared language of the profession. Practice shows you what happens when that language meets real budgets, contracts and people. Horizon asks what projects will be for, and what they will cost the planet, in the decades you will be managing them.

The whole course runs online and at your own pace. There are no live sessions. Every reading, case and podcast is a link you can open from anywhere, and each module ends with a short assessment: a quiz on the online course page for Modules 1 and 2, and written reflections for Module 3.

Course Subject: Project Management
Institution: Universty of Vaasa