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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 ...
A Predictable Decline and the Strategy of Newspapers
The crisis of newspapers has generated a broad debate in the world of journalism[1] and academics[2] that revolves around the following questions: will newspapers survive? If so, in what form? If not, what will the consequences be for the sector and for democratic systems?[3] To respond to these questions it is necessary to go back to the middle of the 1990s, when daily newspapers decided to ...
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 ...
When Publishers no Longer Believe in Publishing
You had to get in line, twenty years ago, to understand the phenomenon of Repubblica.it. In the fall of 2001, delegations of experts and journalists from Axel Springer, the publisher of the popular Bild and the elite Die Welt newspapers in Germany, plus a long list of regional publications and magazines, came down from Berlin to Rome, armed with notepads. The Parisians of Le Monde also went to Repubblica’s ...
The Triumph of Subjectivity (and of the Smartphone)
I hadn’t realized how difficult it was to write about the historical evolution of the circulation of newspapers. I thought I could trust the enormous attention dedicated to the issue for years and decades; not only in the world of experts on the subject, but a bit in all segments of sociopolitical and mass communication culture. Yet I practically found a desert. There are no definitive studies ...
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 ...