Sustainability

Training Overview: This training gives the participants a total overview of the importance of using sustainable principles in product & factory design. Successes and failures of specific companies will be analyzed, with an eye on long term strategic development of the principles of sustainability.

Goals:

• Understanding what sustainability is.
• Understanding why it is essential to long term viability.
• Understanding how brand & image are positioned in the consumers mind.
• A practical look at what has been done.
• A look at where different industries are at the moment.
• How you can benefit from becoming sustainable.
• How to ‘do it’.

Content:

• Introduction to sustainable design.
• Sustainable methodology – wave of the future.
• Understanding sustainable production.
• Product failures using traditional design and production methods.
• Product successes using new methods of sustainable design and production.
• World case studies/Czech case studies.
• A look at how you do business.

Training Methodology: 50% Theory, 50% Practical

This will be an interactive session, drawing from experience and prompting the participants to engage in discussions and analysis of case studies and the readings (provided by the trainer) as well as role-play activities carried out during the training.