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Public Administration and Meritocracy between Myth and Reality
For years the public administration has evoked the mantra of meritocracy, with great difficulty in concretely introducing it. This makes the public sector less attractive for more qualified people on the labor market, and produces a gradual demotivation of public employees. The attempt to introduce more meritocracy in the public administration has been reduced to the often distorted use of monetary ...
The Renewer’s Dilemma in the Management of Collective Turnover
The renewal of human capital in businesses represents a need that it both strategic and operational at the same time. There is no avoiding this issue, and the timeframe in which it takes place can have a significant impact not only on a company’s results, but at times even on its very survival. Putting off such an operation can in fact mean the loss of a significant component of shared experience. ...
Negotiation: How Important is Cultural Background?
An activity present in every human community and society, but carried out following norms, methods, and behavior that can be very different depending on different cultural backgrounds: this is how we could describe negotiation in an intercultural perspective. In a world of globalized business, in which organizations and professionals increasingly find themselves interacting with colleagues and ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
Online vs Offline Distribution Goes Beyond
The traditional levers of the retail mix are still fundamental for the creation of a bond of trust with the end customer, but must be accompanied by tools and methods that, in the context of the digital economy, have proven to be particularly effective. Methods of purchase increasingly take place based on the active participation of the consumer in the construction and personalization of the service. ...
Best Practices in Acquisition Contracts
Acquisition contracts are increasingly complex and structured. Corporate transactions, private equity deals, controlling and minority stakes, and pricing mechanisms complicate negotiations and influence the closing times of operations. Contracts have standard clauses with the application of very diverse perimeters and quantities as a function of the type of operation and the characteristics of the ...
Why We Should Go Back to Reading Marx
One of the new elements of neoliberalism is the possibility of capitalist accumulation that segments and divides the world of labor, rather than making it homogenous. Yet reunification of labor, that leads to collective awareness by workers to produce common struggles for the defense of their rights, is extremely complicated. To overcome the current crisis a new model of development is needed, that ...