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Transforming the food system requires more than just passion and intent. You need to move quickly from idea to plan to action—with rigor, empathy, and effectiveness. By embracing a process that calls on collaboration, negotiation, and inquiry with diverse stakeholders, you will learn to act deliberately and listen empathetically as you explore the concept of food experience design. Engaging the hallmarks of design thinking, this short-form course will help you apply these tools to your food business. You will explore innovation as a team sport, develop customer empathy, frame your challenge, build creativity and refine your ideas, and craft your pitch. Participants will learn from an expert in the field, work through a series of targeted activities, and have the opportunity to learn from and share ideas with one another, with the support of a course navigator with expertise in mentoring start-ups at all levels of engagement. Click on "Watch Video" below to hear more about the course from lead faculty, Kyleigh Wawak.

All of us are aware that cultural differences are significant and that they affect how we interact with others in business and in leisure activities. But what is culture exactly, and how does it impact on negotiation, in particular?

Il Corso di Manager della Ristorazione prevede l’acquisizione di competenze manageriali di alto livello nell’organizzazione e gestione delle attività di ristorazione. Il Corso di Food & Beverage Manager creato da ALMA unisce la conoscenza del prodotto, della cucina italiana e del territorio alle competenze gestionali necessarie oggi per guidare con profitto le aziende di ristorazione o per lavorare con efficacia e efficienza nel mondo dell’hôtellerie. L’obiettivo del Corso è creare futuri Manager della Ristorazione con un bagaglio completo di competenze fondamentali per la gestione di un business complesso come quello della ristorazione moderna. Dal 2021 il piano didattico prevede sia edizioni part time che full time, per andare incontro alle esigenze di chi, potendo dedicare l’intera settimana al Corso, desidera concentrare in un minor numero di mesi la propria formazione e accedere prima al mondo del lavoro.

Important business decisions require justification, and while we often have data that can help us make those decisions, the skill with which we analyze the data can make the difference between a good and bad outcome.

Experience Design has become as much a business art as product design and process design. Experience Design is an interdisciplinary practice that emphasizes the centrality of each guest and the guest experience in service innovation. Today’s global customer who has experienced service in culturally diverse environments is demanding personalized and memorable experiences. An innovative experience design strategy can differentiate one service provider from another and ensure differentiation and greater profit in the experience economy.

Accelerate your career without interrupting it Presented in a blended format, so you can study without leaving your job, this professional diploma enhances your business and management skills, giving you the edge to stand out from the crowd.

Students acquire important theoretical knowledge in accounting, pricing, marketing, business communications, human resources management and more, studying more specialized modules such as culinary arts technology, innovation and creativity in gastronomy and culinary arts, international F&B management, special events management as well. In the course of their studies, students undertake practical internships of up to 12 months. Thanks to the extensive and sophisticated network of active international partners of VUM, students get the opportunity to work with some of the best chefs in the world, to gain valuable experience into high-classed restaurants and to work in “Michelin” starred ones. Thus, they get a real opportunity to create contacts, gain skills and experience in a real environment and lay the foundations for their future successful realization.

What you will learn: Explain global sustainability concepts, issues and concerns Discuss sustainable decisions and actions that foodservice can take and reasons for these Identify some challenges to a business in implementing sustainable practices. Describe why a successful distribution model is necessary to support the infrastructure of sustainable food. Explain current sustainability issues in food production (agriculture, livestock and seafood and some solutions for food service. Explain current sustainability issues regarding water, energy and waste and potential solutions for food service.

Our Professional Chef’s Certificate program is a comprehensive 1-year culinary immersion designed to fast-track your culinary career. Created by top international chefs and educators, this modular program equips you with essential culinary skills and knowledge to excel in the professional kitchen. Expand your culinary expertise with a unique series of applied practical lab classes, covering both classic and contemporary cooking techniques. Our program prepares you to thrive in a professional culinary environment and stay abreast of the latest industry trends and global cuisines. After completing the initial semester on our campus, you’ll have the chance to immerse yourself in the art of a la carte cuisine at our teaching fine dining restaurant. Benefit from personalized guidance and mentorship from our expert instructors, further honing your culinary prowess. Our program goes beyond cooking, offering a well-rounded curriculum that encompasses business and soft skills essential for a thriving culinary career. From management and leadership to cost control, food photography and styling, nutrition and food safety, marketing, and hospitality trends, you’ll gain a comprehensive understanding of the industry. Embark on a transformative culinary journey and emerge as a skilled and sought-after professional chef through our rigorous 1-year training program. Experience hands-on learning, gain industry exposure, and acquire the necessary skills to flourish in the culinary world.

The BSc in Hospitality Management programme (BHM) exposes the students to an environment oriented to both business and hotel operations and management. The BHM curriculum is a combination of theory and practice where the students are exposed to hands-on training in food and beverage production and service and in rooms division management within the Strathmore facility and in the hotels where they will do their attachment and internship.

The Tourism Management programme equips the students with the necessary skills, knowledge and attitude needed to transform the challenges of the 21st century into business opportunities and socially responsible enterprises in the field of tours, travel and tourism.

In today’s hotel sector an increasingly complex network of traditional and web based channels have to be managed to insure hotel success. Key questions include: how should you distribute over the web? What should you include on your brand.com website so people book through it? How can you maximise the potential of online travel agents (OTAs)? With the distribution environment both highly complex and constantly evolving, this course will give you comprehensive foundation of current industry practices to help jump start your career in this fascinating domain.

The program is designed to help managers who have three to five years of HTM experience solve the real daily challenges of working at an advanced level in this niche market. It provides the executive management, leadership and analytical skills you need to advance your career within the industry.

The MSc International Hospitality and Tourism Management provides you with knowledge of how to manage organisations in international sectors, underpinned by a balanced understanding of the hospitality and tourism industries. You will graduate with the knowledge, understanding and experience to take up managerial roles within the hospitality or tourism sectors. You’ll have the chance to enhance these skills before you graduate with an optional work placement in the UK or abroad, allowing you to put theory into practice in an industry setting.