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Andrea Ciacci, Claudio Raimondi

Successful Business Cases: AI Implementation Best Practices

In September 2023, Microsoft Italy launched the AI L.A.B. (Learn – Adopt – Benefit) project, an initiative designed to help companies assess and implement generative Artificial Intelligence (AI) solutions through tailored consulting, training, and skill development to enhance individual productivity and business competitiveness. Including currently over 320 companies and 450 generative AI projects—half ...

Andrea Beltratti, Alessia Bezzecchi

Finance for Europe

In his latest report on Europe’s present and future competitiveness, Mario Draghi argues that Europe is in a paradoxical situation: it appears stable but has unknowingly fallen ill. It has set ambitious environmental targets, possibly beyond its reach, while neglecting applied business research and struggling with the ambiguity between national sovereignty and the role of supranational institutions. ...

Severino Meregalli

Creating Value with AI: Post-Digital Business Strategies

Since 2022, artificial intelligence (AI) has firmly established itself as a central topic on the innovation agendas of companies across a wide range of industries. From the first months of the launch of generative AI tools with easy-to-use interfaces targeting the consumer market, the scale of this phenomenon has been clear. OpenAI's ChatGPT, for instance, counted 100 million users within two months ...

Lorenzo Diaferia, Leonardo Maria De Rossi, Gianluca Salviotti

Exploring the Market and Understanding AI Applications

This phase marks the initial step toward embracing AI. Ideally, the analysis of how to integrate technology into a company should stem solely from business needs, opportunities, and objectives. The ultimate goal should be solving a problem, which will dictate the choice of technology. However, from a pragmatic perspective, technology cannot be utilized without understanding its potential. Therefore, ...

Antonio Giannino

Why SMEs are the new front line of cybersecurity

In today’s digital ecosystem, the perception that small and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs) are “too small to be a target” is a dangerous and obsolete anachronism. The strategic reality is diametrically opposed: SMEs are not only a primary target, but are often regarded by malicious actors as the “weak point” of the entire economic value chain. Their interconnectedness with large corporations, ...

Elena Coffetti, Alfredo Biffi

Thinking in projects: the strategic lever for companies that want to innovate

Structuring corporate management around the project portfolio means, for management, undertaking a path of transformation—or clarification—of how the company operates through projects. The reasons behind this choice are multiple, foremost among them innovation. Today, the need to generate innovation and channel it into its various forms of expression is felt—albeit with varying intensity—by ...

Kirsimarja Blomqvist, Snejina Michailova, Charles C. Snow

Creating value in global knowledge networks. Trust as a strategic lever for collaboration

Introduction Imagine a meeting of fiercely competing Finnish telecom operators, major TV channels, a terminal manufacturer, information and communication technology (ICT) integrators and public-sector officials. They were all sitting together around a table, all deeply engaged in an open discussion about the potential of a new business opportunity. They collaborated intensively to co-create a systemic ...

Antonio Giannino

The “nervous system” of cybersecurity: data, automation, and response to reduce risk

Today’s companies face a paradox: a greater number of security tools has led to greater complexity, data overload, and critical visibility gaps, effectively increasing the risk of breaches. The average Security Operations Center (SOC) is flooded with more than 10,000 alerts per day, with an estimated 30% not even reviewed due to volume and a high false-positive rate. This phenomenon, known as alert ...

Alberto Grando

The glass half full of Italian innovation

One of the key recommendations highlighted in the Report on the Future of European Competitiveness (Draghi, 2024) stresses the need to “bridge the innovation gap,” particularly with respect to the United States. The report notes that “in Europe, innovative digital firms are unable to scale or attract financing, resulting in a significant gap in later-stage investment between the EU and the United ...

E&M Plus

More trust, more future

The word chosen by Treccani[1] as the “Word of the Year 2025” is “trust”: one of the most searched terms on the platform and the one showing the highest percentage increase compared to the previous year. Given that trust is a fundamental concept in both social and personal life, it is hardly surprising that it has moved to the centre of attention in a period of extreme uncertainty, and that ...