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2025-04-14 Gianmario Verona

Digital and sustainable decisions for a changing world

We’re living in the digital age and facing challenges linked to sustainability, so to put it another way, this is the century of digital and sustainable decisions. For some time, digital was fundamentally seen as an object, a tool: a smartphone, a tablet, a smart TV. We recognized the pleasure of the game (as Alessandro Baricco deftly describes it in his novel "The Game"), but governments and businesses didn’t have the foggiest notion of digital’s innovative potential at an economic level, so they didn’t understand its tremendous industrial impact. Suffice to say, apart from the US and ...

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2024-10-21 Gianmario Verona

Making Decisions in the Era of Complexity

The fundamental problem we face in a complex environment is our limited capacity to make predictions. Cases in point: At year’s end 2021, who thought that Putin would have the nerve to challenge the West by invading Ukraine just weeks after New Year's? An invasion that sparked an energy crisis that further fueled the upsurge in inflation, the economic demon that was almost forgotten for years. And in late 2000, who could have even imagined 9/11 happening the following year? (Back then, the United States was working on a space shield to defend against a new Cold War; Al Qaeda’s international ...

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