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The Origins of the Print Media Crisis
There is an observation - from a few years ago - that is as ironic as it is dramatic, made by a famous journalism studies researcher, that goes more or less like this: to speak of a crisis for print media is an optimistic understatement of reality. In the Italian case, an additional qualification must be made: the print media sector has never had a particularly leading role. The historical causes ...
Newspapers Searching for New Business Models
From their birth, newspapers have based their existence essentially on the same business model, founded on the sale of copies and advertising. This model, as we know, began to collapse more than a decade ago, and except in some rare cases, mostly abroad, an alternative has not yet been found. According to the data from ADS-Accertamenti Diffusione Stampa, from November 2013 to November 2019, the ...
The Prospects for the Italian Water Pricing System
With approximately 40 euros per inhabitant per year in 2018, compared to a European average of 100 euros, Italy is at the bottom of the European rankings for investment in the water sector. The causes are to be found in the organizational deficits on the part of the operators, overly complex regulations, and the limited utilization of credit.#The current tariff method launched an intervention seeking ...
Advanced Analytics: What Key Advantages for Which Companies
The rapid and incessant evolution of markets induces businesses to adopt increasingly advanced technologies to adequately respond to the needs of consumers and thus to remain competitive. Through the elaboration of accurate and increasingly reliable predictions, advanced analytics provides a conspicuous contribution to company decision-making processes, ensuring that managers have the possibility ...
Supply Chain Finance for the Management of Working Capital
Supply chain finance (SCF) is the set of solutions able to exploit the strong points of a supply chain in order to optimize working capital and cash flow. The use of this solution often leads to an increase of liquidity and profitability along the supply chain, and to positive spillover effects in terms of trust and commitment among the partners of the chain. The main goals pursued by companies are ...
New and Old Market Logics in the Hyperconnected Era
In the current hyperconnected world, the primary sources of value are data and communication, elements that businesses must know how to transform into information and relationships of trust, i.e. into sustainable economic value.#Through the construction of an ecosystem of complementary and interconnected solutions, businesses can generate "network externalities" and "switching costs" able to consolidate ...
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 ...
How and Why to Defend our Coolness
“Cool” and “coolness” are by definition evasive and liquid concepts. They change as a function of time, geography, aesthetic canons, and transnational or global subcultures. All of these elements tend to give the perception of what is cool an apparently unpredictable dynamism, and thus for decades now have been the subject of specialist analysis aimed at explaining the fundamental components ...
The Supply and Demand of Uniqueness
The need for differentiation and distinction, that in its extreme version reaches what is known as the “need for uniqueness,”[1] has a well-known psychobiological origin, and in that sense can be considered a natural necessity of the human race. However, there is no question that the basic need to feel or appear different, to distinguish oneself, has emerged with increasing intensity in ...
Cultural Specificity and Quality of Production
The debate on the country-specific nature of management - and thus also on the Italian Way in marketing management, financial management, operations management, and so forth - is controversial.[3] This may be the reason why many structural analyses on Made in Italy production have not been accompanied by a similar number on the "communalities," or at least the invariances, in entrepreneurial and managerial ...