• DiJa for Business
• Almost all manufacturing industries experience coronavirus bites
• Personal Performance Formula
• Plagiarism in furniture is also a business process
• Brace of broken furniture

Everything that happened last week in Ukraine and the world and is relevant for the furniture maker, read in our digest:

1. The Ministry of Digital Transformation announced the launch of the DiJa.Business platform for businessmen. The department noted that on the new online platform, each owner of small and medium-sized businesses will find important information: ideas, a list of services and support programs from the state, and will also be able to get professional advice.

2. After blocking trade relations with China, companies around the world complain of delays in deliveries. Chinese companies reduce salaries for employees, postpone payment dates or completely stop paying salaries, explaining this with the economic damage from the coronavirus.
China’s GDP growth in the first quarter of 2020 from coronavirus may decline to 4.5% year on year. The countries that export most to China may suffer from this. The spread of Chinese coronavirus will cost the global economy more than $ 280 billion in the first quarter of 2020, which will put an end to the continuous growth of world GDP, which lasted 43 consecutive quarters.

3. Ukrainian traveler and entrepreneur Orest Tooth helps people start and develop their business. In the book “Formula of productivity” he shares with the reader the secrets of success, multitasking and time management.
This book contains more than 100 tricks, methods, techniques and other pieces of time management, self-motivation, as well as personal productivity, designed to help the reader organize all existing affairs, determine priorities, according to their own preferences, realize dreams, and also form the most desirable, bright full of life.
And the most important! The chips suggested in this book do not require any additional actions from you. You are only asked to change the approach to existing household affairs and business tasks.

4. Plagiarism, like any other business process that requires a professional approach. It is necessary to constantly “keep abreast”. Track the range of leading furniture manufacturers and design trends. Analyze the cyclical nature of decisions in production, the number of copies of the design. It is good to navigate the already existing trends and identify new ones, even at the stage of origin.
Visiting several international exhibitions will not be enough for “quality” plagiarism. And the conclusions made only on the basis of what was seen at the exhibition is a mistake, sometimes fatal. Systematic work is needed to study the assortment, analyze solutions and exhibition samples in the show room, the assortment of materials, colors, finishes for each design and so on.
Such conscientious work on a copy can create true professionalism. You can use it not only to make plagiarism, but also to create an individual design. And this is a matter of everyone’s choice.

5. The French artist Baptist Luxembourg decided to realize himself in furniture. He saw the beauty of furniture where others see only trash, the place of which is in a landfill.
“What could be more beautiful than broken old chipboard furniture ?!”: – the credo of his furniture. As a result of long and painstaking work at landfills in France, the Baptist managed to find the furniture he needed – the desired design, decor, the desired degree of damage …
Perhaps, it will be difficult for designers and professional furniture makers to talk about the presence of design in this case. But, as we know, the artist sees the world in his own way, and can see the beautiful where others see only garbage. Thanks to this vision, the Baptist’s furniture got into the French Museum of Modern Art.