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Scaling Up Is the True Obstacle for Start-ups
One of the most important tasks for an entrepreneur is to bring a company from the start-up phase to the subsequent scale-up phase. The key factor is reaching what is called the "product-market fit," i.e. the validation of the business model. The scale-up of a company requires at least three elements: a growing number of leaders able to predict the competition and trends in the market and to delegate ...
From the platform economy to the ecosystem economy: how AI is rewriting global competition
Amazon, Alibaba, Apple and Google are the champions of the platform economy. But a new frontier is emerging: the ecosystem economy. Unlike a platform, which has a clearly defined center and a dominant player that controls the rules of the game, an ecosystem is a networked set of relationships in which multiple companies, organizations and communities collaborate. There is no longer a single infrastructure ...
Start-up Finance: Promoting and Sustaining Innovation
To finance start-ups, to meet financial needs and the need for less dilution of the founding shareholders, various instruments are currently available. In particular, beyond simply raising equity through private placement, it is possible to make use of alternatives such as participatory or convertible financial instruments, semi-equity instruments and stock market listing. This evolution in the tools ...
ESG: Strategic and Operational Implications for Businesses
In the coming years, the need to reorient corporate management towards a stakeholder-based approach rather than a shareholder-based approach will become increasingly urgent. It is not just a reconsideration of how to do business that arises spontaneously in more virtuous entities. Even when considering the traditional model of capitalism as inherently superior, financial market discipline will still ...
Collaborating is Difficult, but for Supply Chains it is Necessary
Collaborations along the supply chains of the agri-food industry are essential to compete in a global market. There is still considerable resistance due to the nature of these supply chains and the complex relationships within the companies involved. In addition to organizational difficulties, supply chains must address environmental challenges, the resolution of which is necessarily linked to collaborative ...
Non-Financial Disclosure to Enhance Sustainable Practices
The attention to sustainability and the application of ESG criteria to the business model have by now become a necessary but not sufficient precondition for businesses. We are seeing a radical change in the view of these issues, thanks also to the attention of supranational organizations and public opinion being increasingly focused on businesses’ impact on society and the internal and external ...
The Export Manager: A Strategic Profession for Growth
The context in which Italian SMEs act is increasingly complex. The Covid-19 pandemic, digitalization, the Russia-Ukraine conflict with the related impact on energy prices, inflation and the geopolitical scenario have made the competitive area tougher, a place where hyper-competition pushes companies to positioning that is more costly even though it has greater value. In this context, the Export Manager ...
Management and the Board: A Crucial Relationship in M&A Operations
In acquisition operations, the buyer generally estimates the synergies generated by the aggregation of the two entities. This is a component of the value attributed to the target company that often represents a non-negligible percentage of the overall estimated value. On this point, there are some who believe that this component of value is very rarely confirmed ex post following the actual integration, ...
From Recycling to Redesign: The Challenge of the Circular Economy
“Circular economy, Italy is the leader in the EU for waste recycling, beating out France, Germany, and Spain.” This was the headline in late spring of 2022 in a famous economic daily in our country, provoking an informational short-circuit that in my view is “dangerous,” because it contains two errors (to be marked with a red pencil, if not a blue one). The first error – the one most deeply-rooted ...
Diversity Management: An Extensive Terrain Still to Be Explored
The world of diversity management in SMEs is a terrain that has been little explored. In the databases of academic studies there are few contributions dedicated specifically to this theme, and precise data is lacking on the spread and adoption in SMEs of policies and practices of diversity management. Focusing attention on Italy, the survey on the spread and adoption of these practices conducted in ...