Tuotantotalous - Industrial Engineering and Management

This project-based course supports doctoral researchers in transforming their scientific work into viable business ventures. Participants will work on their own research project, startup idea, or Research-to-Business (R2B) initiative. Through workshops, hands-on exercises, and feedback sessions, students will iteratively develop their venture ideas and prepare investor-ready presentations. Key topics include: · Technology–market matching · Business model innovation · Customer profiling and value creation · Value chain and ecosystem analysis, stakeholder mapping · Financial planning and commercialization strategy Investor pitching and venture readiness

This course introduces doctoral researchers to entrepreneurial mindset and various career pathways from research to impact. Participants will explore how scientific ideas can evolve into market-ready innovations, learn to evaluate commercialization potential of their own research ideas and/or projects, and understand the processes, challenges, and opportunities of science-based value creation and capture. Through lectures, case studies, group work, and experiential activities, students will gain practical insights into innovation, intellectual property, opportunity recognition, and value creation, while developing transferable skills in communication, creativity, and problem-solving. · From Lab to Market: Innovation types, PhD as a project, valley of death · Skills & capabilities: Intellectual property (IP), team formation, creativity, technology readiness levels (TRL), design thinking · Opportunity recognition: Disruptive innovation, product development, market readiness · Role Models & Case Studies: Successes and failures in tech ventures · Value Creation & Capture: Business models, strategy, market adoption · Communicating value: Research communication for non-academic audiences · LUT Innovation Ecosystem: Intellectual property (IP) protection, Technology Transfer Office (TTO) services, Research-to-Business (R2B) projects · Prototyping & Practice: Site visit Jamie Hyneman Center (JHC), group presentations

Laaja toimitusketjun johtamiseen liittyvä yritystoimeksianto/projektityö.

Ydinaines: yliopisto-opiskelu ja ohjelmassa sovellettava käytäntö. Täydentävä tieto: perehtyminen TUDI-ohjelman tutkintorakenteeseen, HOPS. Erityistieto: erilaiset opiskelua tukevat ja opiskelijalle järjestetyt palvelut.

Laaja toimitusketjun johtamiseen liittyvä yritystoimeksianto/projektityö.

Background and basics of digital transformation. Digitalization as part of a company’s strategy. Adoption of digitalization in the organization and evaluating the effects of digitalization.

Ydinaines: Toimitusketjun johtamisen peruskäsitteistö ja tehtäväkenttä yrityksessä. Varastojen ohjauksen ja analysoinnin perusmenetelmät. Tuotannonohjauksen perusteet. Materiaalinohjaus hankinnoissa ja jakelussa. Kysynnän ennustaminen. Toimitusketjun ohjauksellisia ongelmia. Toimitusketjun suorituskyvyn mittaaminen ja taloudellisten vaikutusten arviointi.

Tutkimuksen tekemisen perusperiaatteet. Kvalitatiivisen ja kvantitatiivisen tutkimuksen lähtökohdat ja eroavaisuudet. Tuotantotalouden alalla yleisesti käytetyt tutkimusmenetelmät. Tiedonkeruumenetelmät ja niiden soveltaminen. Tutkimustulosten kirjallisen raportoinnin periaatteet. Tieteellisen kirjoittamisen vaatimukset. Tutkimuksen eettiset periaatteet.

Meaningful work is increasingly important to people and especially pursued amongst younger generations. Experiencing one’s work as meaningful results in many positive consequences, such as work satisfaction and eudaimonic wellbeing. At its’ best, it helps people to discover agency in the world characterized by several crises such as climate breakdown, conflict, inequality, and the political divide. Purpose-led organizations focus on driving purposeful change whilst providing their employees with meaningful work and regenerating the operational environment. The course considers the topics of meaningful work and purpose-led organizations by introducing an action-oriented pedagogical approach to studying, including lectures, case examples, and co-operative learning methods. Via co-operative learning methods students will form research questions of the course topics and explore them by different methods and informed by theoretical inputs. Co-operative learning methods will also include meaningful action as experiments during the course. The course supports student integration as well as working life skills by learning methods that apply participatory action and allowing reflection on students’ future roles as agents in work life through the concept of meaningful work. Core contents: Meaningful work Decent work Purpose-led organizations Management and leadership for meaningful work & organizational purpose Eudaimonic work-related wellbeing Participatory methods in exploration of meaningful action

The course focuses on the role of arts-based methods in innovation and organizational development. The arts-based methods mean applying art and its methods to increase people's knowledge and skills by opening experiential knowledge, intuition, and tacit knowledge that can be applied in organizational development. The aim of the course is to introduce arts-based methods and how arts-based methods facilitate, for example, building up dialogue between different people, lowering barriers to make-sense on complicated issues, and share experiences as well as imagine possibilities and future scenarios. Theoretically, the course draws on collective creativity, sense-making, and reflection. In practical level, the course introduces the use of arts-based methods in a variety of industries with visiting lectures and experts.

Impacts of digitalization on different levels in organizations and their operational environments from a systemic perspective, impact assessment, foresight activities and significance of foresight, foresight practices and methods, presentation of cases from different fields. Digitalization is mainly examined as a phenomenon during the lectures. The students can focus on individual technologies (such as artificial intelligence applications) and industries in their course assignments.

Through a combination of theoretical learning and practical exercises, students will explore various futures research methods and develop the skills necessary to implement them effectively in organizational development contexts. The core content of the course includes: Understanding the complexities of organizational environments Introduction to futures research and foresight Understanding the role of strategic foresight in organizational planning Developing the ability to think critically about long-term development Application of futures research methods in organizational development Engaging in experiential learning and practical testing and implementation of futures research methods

The course focuses on efficient utilization of intellectual property rights (IPR) and standards information to support competitive intelligence analysis and strategic decision making in organizations. IPR and standardization systems are focal institutions of international trade that impact the rate and direction of technological progress. All companies need to make strategic decisions regarding IPRs and standardization as well as follow the IPR, standardization and regulatory landscapes in their target markets. Students will conduct a course project where they analyze the IPR and standardization environment from the perspective of a specific company and industry.

During the introductory course, students will receive essential instructions on master's level education in industrial engineering and management at LUT University, problem-based and integrative education, LUT culture, and the Lahti region.

Innovation and technology trends and their implications to strategic managementGlobal innovation policiesStrategic analysis: exploring where we could innovateCore elements of innovation strategy formulationStrategic choicesStrategic implementationThe importance of dynamic capability and the role of innovation strategy in building thisCompany cooperation: The course challenge is executed in collaboration with company (companies)

This course provides students with essential knowledge regarding artificial intelligence applications in industrial contexts. It focuses on advanced techniques for searching and analyzing data, predicting outcomes, and developing intelligent solutions to address industrial challenges.

The course focuses on the preparation and analysis of financial statements, and on the form of financial statements. The course will also cover the basics of financial reports and transactions. During the course will provide students understanding about accounting terms, and how financial statements are constructed. It will also give them ability to read financial statements. Core content: Accrual accounting, revenue, inventory, intangible assets, finance investments, liabilities and stockholders' equity.

During academic year 2025-2026 the course has two alternative completion methods: Autumn 2025: Lahti Venture Programme (organized in collaboration between University of Helsinki, LUT University, LAB University of Applied Sciences, Lahti Region Development LADEC Ltd, and Lahti University Campus) https://lahtiventureprogram.com/ Summer 2026: International Summer School in Lahti (organized in collaboration between LAB University of Applied Sciences, LUT University, University of Helsinki, and Lahti University Campus)

Toimitusketjun johtaminen: - tuotannon- ja varastonohjauksen peruskäsitteet ja mallit Kustannusjohtaminen: - kustannusjohtamisen peruskäsitteet ja menetelmät