NSTU NETI became the winner of the First All-Russian Labor Productivity Championship

The university was represented by a team of the Management Department employees: Aleksei Chuvaev, PhD in Economics, Associate Professor, Victoria Vinichenko, PhD in Economics, Associate Professor and Kristina Nagapetyan, Assistant.

The team of AO "Kamenskvolokno" from the Rostov Oblast was the winner In the category "Enterprises" and the Tula Oblast Industrial Development Fund was the first in the category "Local authorities/Regional competence centers". The championship was held within the national project "Labour productivity", implemented by the Ministry of Economic Development of the Russian Federation. "The growth of labour productivity is the basis not only for the well-being of Russian enterprises, profit for owners, investment in production, but it also opens up new opportunities for a better salary. Since we work in a very competitive environment, productivity becomes increasingly necessary for survival. You were the best of more than 1000 participants, proved to be real strategists and you will always be remembered as the winners of the First All-Russian Labor Productivity Championship", said Maxim Reshetnikov, the Minister of Economic Development of the Russian Federation addressing the winners of the Championship.

The organizers, management training program "Productivity Leaders", selected 138 teams out of 220 applications for the participation in the championship. Representatives of 102 enterprises, 10 universities, 11 regional executive authorities and 15 Regional Competence Centers competed for the title of champions. The main part of the competition was held in a business simulation. It helps managers to form a systemic approach to improving labour productivity during the course of the educational program. The teams, acting as Tractor Plants, competed with each other for leadership in the simulated world market of agricultural machinery. They created and designed products, built production and supply chains, used financial instruments, motivated staff, launched advertising campaigns and entered different markets.

The first stage of the championship was held online on December 14 - 18, 2020. Three rounds in the business simulation determined 22 finalist teamsr: 10 in the category "Enterprises", 6 in the categories "Local authorities/Regional competence centers" and "Universities". The finalists had to go through 8 more rounds "from scratch" in the business simulation. The final stage was the presentation of their strategies to the members of the grand expert jury, which included Maxim Reshetnikov, Minister of Economic Development of the Russian Federation, Peter Zaselsky, Deputy Minister of Economic Development of Russia, Ekaterina Grishina, Head of the "Productivity Leaders" program, Director of the Productivity Improvement Center, Russian Foreign Trade Academy, Dmitriy Kapishnikov, CEO, KUKA Russia, Elena Semenova, CEO, OOO Phoenix Contact RUS, Deputy Chairman of the Russian-German FTC, Falk Tischendorf, lawyer, Partner and Head of BEITEN BURKHARDT’s Russia, Maksim Shahov, Executive Officer, Schaeffler Russland, Pavel Bilenko, founder and head of Fabrika FabLab, Diplomas of the future, founder and CEO of OOO Tekner, academic leader, organizer of international MBA and EMBA modules in the Silicon Valley of MSM Skolkovo.

Reference: The team of NSTU NETI was trained in the LEAN laboratory of the "Processes Factory". "Processes Factory" is the first interactive educational platform for teaching lean manufacturing beyond the Urals. Team leader was Aleksei Chuvaev, PhD in Economics, World champion in Global Management Challenge 2015/2016 business strategy and management competition.