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How To Get To The Top. A Profile of Italian CEOs
A survey on the careers of Italian CEOS can help whoever wants to develop their career or change direction so as to take the right steps to achieve their objective. A SDA Bocconi study highlights that the job market for corporation chiefs in Italy remains conservative for the moment. When it comes to appointing the head of a company, shareholders tend to choose fifty-year-old men who have had a stable ...
Dismissals in Italy: Regulations and Good Practice
Dismissal is a delicate moment in the life of a worker, who suffers from the employer’s decision to end the agreement between them. But it is also a delicate moment for a Company, whose functioning is based on human capital and must therefore handle its relationships with its employees appropriately, even in the most difficult phases.#Dismissal is surrounded by a series of limits, of both a substantive ...
Human Resources in the Time of People Analytics
By People Analytics (or HR Analytics) is meant the use of data to advance how organizations make decisions about people, and help leaders operate based on evidence rather than intuition. Given the increasing availability and granularity of data on employees that has characterized the last decade, the interest of managers, consultants, and academics for the use of People Analytics in the management ...
The Impact in Italy of International M&A
International acquisitions create value, and Italian companies that are able to, should systematically explore this path, in particular in international markets. To carry out international acquisitions it is necessary to pay attention to elements such as diversity in business culture, business organization, degrees of competition in various markets, and also cost and factor productivity.By acquiring ...
Age Management A Necessary Choice
The debate on managing the aging of the population has focused on the promotion of work in old age and the lengthening of careers. The result has been active labor policies aimed at the segment of workers close to retirement, to support their employability. Age management is defined as the sum of "measures that combat age barriers and/or promote age diversity and are oriented towards favoring maintenance ...
Sales Assistance in the Automotive Sector
Sales representatives in car dealerships will increasingly need better listening skills to interpret customers' needs and offer high-quality personalized service, overshadowing the technical abilities that have historically been dominant in the automotive sector. The evolution of the skills of sales personnel in the automotive sector is not only fundamental and necessary, but also requires a certain ...
Advanced Analytics for Managerial Decision
The data-driven economy has emerged in recent years. The digital revolution, the increase of connectivity, and the instant spread of information are revolutionizing the way we operate and work, at the individual, company, and institutional level. There is increasing recognition of the importance of data. The period of emergency we are living through is also pushing us to use quantitative information ...
Innovation and Algorithms, To Be Managed with Care
The adoption of innovative solutions based on artificial intelligence (AI) by now involves almost all primary and secondary activities of supply chains. These innovations have revolutionized production processes, generated gains in the productivity of logistics activities, transformed marketing and sales functions and the related services, and radically modified the support activities traditionally ...
2021: An Artificial Intelligence Odyssey
Sensors, algorithms, and the capacity to store and analyze data: these are the three characteristics of the reality in which we are immersed. In this context, dominated by AI, businesses and organizations – in a broad sense – are exploring and using the many advantages and benefits that these tools offer: from the more accurate estimation of the demand for some goods or services (from transport ...
We Are the Business
The imperative of every good entrepreneur, administrator, and manager is to give adequate space to reflection on what, how, and why to do business, concentrating on the construction of a “strong” market position and on the creation of an organizational context and environment able to generate cohesiveness, motivation, and energy.Moreover, for the economic and cultural development of Italy, it ...