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Magazine article (E&M - 2020/2) Brechbühl Hans, Abbatemarco Nico

The Hidden Challenge of Digital Transformation

Digital transformation has brought many challenges to enterprises in the last ten years. The consumerization of information technology has produced a shift from traditional legacy user interfaces and software to the need for consumer-grade, user-friendly interfaces and experiences at work. The proliferation of mobile technologies and the internet of things has expanded boundaries far beyond the physical ...

Magazine article (E&M - 2020/2) Meregalli Severino, De Rossi Leonardo Maria, Diaferia Lorenzo

How to Draw Value from Data in the Post-Digital Era

The World Economic Forum (WEF) has recently estimated that by the end of 2020, the total of data stored globally should reach the volume of 44 Zettabytes, which means having a quantity of bytes forty times greater than the number of stars in the universe. In the world of big data and digitalization, imaginative references such as those of the WEF on the growth of data volume have by now become ...

Magazine article (E&M - 2020/2) Micacchi Lorenza, Valotti Giovanni

The Issue of Corporate Governance in Public Utilities

Public utilities, companies operating in the sectors of water, the environment, energy, and transport, have a profound impact on quality of life, being responsible for basic infrastructure and the provision of the main services in the collective interest of the population. In the history of our country, these companies grew in monopoly conditions, as a direct representation of the public entities ...

Magazine article (E&M - 2020/2) Bilotta Nicola, Botti Fabrizio

Big Tech Finance between Efficiency and Market Choices

The banking industry is undergoing a process of deep transformation driven principally by technological innovations that at the same time have impacted not only the efficiency of the sector, but above all the competition involving various categories of new actors. In addition to challenger banks and fintech startups, the international market has seen the growth of big tech finance. Unlike the ...

Magazine article (E&M - 2021/3) Miranda Lucio

Trade Opportunities and Possible Perils

Transatlantic trade and the rethinking of supply chains, to be less tilted towards China, have returned to the center of debate in America and Europe. There is a different environment, probably determined by the freezing of tariffs, that is inspiring trust both in Brussels and in markets and businesses.#Many financial analysts are of the opinion that the American economy is heading into a period of ...

Magazine article (E&M - 2021/3) Cravera Alessandro

How to Exercise Leadership in Complex Contexts

The cultural model of the real exercise of leadership is still that of one person in control, with an array of followers. The concepts of leader and leadership are thus still associated with characteristics such as charisma, persuasive ability, assertiveness, and rapid actions and decisions. These are all abilities no longer appropriate to govern the complex reality in which organizations are immersed. ...

Magazine article (E&M - 2021/3) Fuggetta Alfonso

Innovator Country, Not Entrepreneurial State

What our country is lacking is not an "Entrepreneurial State" – an expression often misunderstood and manipulated to promote forms of neo-statism from the 1970s – but a state oriented towards the development and growth of knowledge and the market, that promotes research and innovation in all contexts and areas of society.#Italy needs to be an "Innovator Country," in all of its expressions and ...

Magazine article (E&M - 2021/3) Sironi Andrea

Human Capital: from Emergency to Priority for the Country’s Future

Human capital represents a key factor for the competitiveness and economic and social development of a country. The main factors that determine the quality and quantity of human capital are represented by the demographic curve, the educational system, research spending and the system of scientific research in general, and the ability of a country to attract quality immigration from the rest of the ...

Magazine article (E&M - 2021/3) Colangelo Giuseppe

Digital platforms: an (almost) all-out battle

For several years now, Big Tech companies have been held responsible for almost every evil of modern society: the spread of fake news, hate speech and terrorist content; the publishing crisis and the threat to Western democracies; product counterfeiting and tax avoidance. Contrasting with the legislative hyperactivity of Australia, UK, and Europe with regard to Big-Tech companies is the relative inactivity ...

Magazine article (E&M - 2021/3) Veronesi Vittoria, Pirotti Guia Beatrice, De Angelis Corvi Elena

Successful strategies for the agri-food industry

In the first half of 2020, Italian agri-food exports to the United States totaled more than EUR 2 billion, up 4.5% compared to 2019 and registering a double-digit growth over the corresponding period in 2018. Moreover, the value of food and beverage exports to the United States is expected to increase by around EUR 11 billion by 2023. As revealed by the success of the Mutti and Marchesi Antinori labels, ...