Management Tips

2026-03-24 Alessandro Antonini, Ilaria Buonomo

Job crafting: redesigning work to unlock individual potential

In the context of modern organizations, the concept of job crafting represents one of the most advanced and promising developments in the field of role redesign. It is an approach that places the individual at the center as an active agent in shaping their own role, moving beyond both the rigidity of traditional job descriptions and the top-down logic of organizational change. Job crafting is not a spontaneous or casual practice, but a structured and intentional process that takes shape through a conscious negotiation between the employee and their manager. In this sense, it can be understood ...

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2026-02-24 Elena Coffetti, Alfredo Biffi

Thinking in projects: the strategic lever for companies that want to innovate

Structuring corporate management around the project portfolio means, for management, undertaking a path of transformation—or clarification—of how the company operates through projects. The reasons behind this choice are multiple, foremost among them innovation. Today, the need to generate innovation and channel it into its various forms of expression is felt—albeit with varying intensity—by all companies. Adopting the logic of “thinking in projects” makes it possible to spread sensitivity toward innovation and to organize it at the level of the enterprise as a system. Companies ...

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2026-01-28 Antonio Giannino

The “nervous system” of cybersecurity: data, automation, and response to reduce risk

Today’s companies face a paradox: a greater number of security tools has led to greater complexity, data overload, and critical visibility gaps, effectively increasing the risk of breaches. The average Security Operations Center (SOC) is flooded with more than 10,000 alerts per day, with an estimated 30% not even reviewed due to volume and a high false-positive rate. This phenomenon, known as alert fatigue (“fatigue from alerts”), is one of the main causes of analyst burnout and directly contributes to failure to detect real threats. This chapter will demonstrate how the integrated pair ...

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2026-01-28 Antonio Giannino

Why SMEs are the new front line of cybersecurity

In today’s digital ecosystem, the perception that small and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs) are “too small to be a target” is a dangerous and obsolete anachronism. The strategic reality is diametrically opposed: SMEs are not only a primary target, but are often regarded by malicious actors as the “weak point” of the entire economic value chain. Their interconnectedness with large corporations, in their role as suppliers of goods and services, turns them into a privileged attack vector. By compromising an SME with less sophisticated defences, an attacker can gain a foothold from which ...

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2025-12-05 Massimo Aielli

Understanding costs to make better decisions

To measure costs effectively, it is essential to understand their possible alternative classifications and determine which items to consider and how to include them in measurement processes. Although each company may organize its costs differently, it is still possible to identify several typical categories observable across all firms, and these can therefore be regarded as the most common classifications. First, cost elements can be distinguished as either variable or fixed. Variable costs change in proportion to production and sales volumes, while fixed costs do not vary in their total amount ...

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2025-09-11 Marco Valigi

Geopolitics: an asset for small and medium-sized enterprises

Arguing that geopolitical analysis represents an asset for small and medium-sized enterprises is a counterintuitive assertion. As an initial reaction, it is natural to experience a degree of skepticism. Geopolitics, given its analytical framework, might appear to be a method better suited to complex and articulated organizations, with budgets capable of absorbing without difficulty a function not directly tied to production. Yet, upon closer examination, I believe that readers will find it effortless to embrace a different interpretative key. Let us return to the question of scale. Stating ...

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2025-07-24 Pietro De Giovanni, Alberto Grando

Resilience strategies in designing logistics architectures

The degree of vulnerability is determined by the probability of risk events occurring and the severity of their impact; it depends on both the design and complexity of operational architectures (structural vulnerabilities) and on the capabilities a company has developed and consolidated in its core management processes, particularly in operations and supply chain management. When it comes to structural vulnerabilities, the companies analyzed have adopted various strategies to address the challenges related to supply chain design and complexity, focusing on innovative solutions aimed at improving ...

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2025-07-14 Lorenzo Diaferia, Leonardo Maria De Rossi, Gianluca Salviotti

AI in business: assessing and prioritizing areas of intervention

The logic for defining a priority order in the areas of intervention and in the initiatives to be pursued must be based on a broad evaluation, which includes technical, business, regulatory framework, and internal competence elements. Several factors will indeed need to be aligned for the successful outcome of the initiatives. In general, there are two dimensions we can consider to define a priority order. The first dimension looks at the expected business impact of the initiatives and is mainly linked to an assessment of business opportunity. The second dimension instead refers to an assessment ...

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2025-05-23 Leonardo Caporarello

How to negotiate (successfully) in the phygital world

Phygital negotiation refers to a blend of traditional face-to-face and digital-enabled interactions. In fact, digital tools can enhance the negotiation process in both in-person interactions (with data mining, for instance) and virtual ones (online meetings). In essence, phygital negotiations encompass a wide variety of combinations of direct, personal contacts and technology-driven elements such as online collaboration platforms, data collection and analysis tools, and document sharing systems. Advantages and challenges of phygital negotiation Phygital negotiation provides great flexibility in ...

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2025-04-24 Lorenzo Diaferia, Leonardo Maria De Rossi, Gianluca Salviotti

AI in business: how to identify areas of focus and strategic initiatives

Technological and business stimuli from the market must be integrated with the company’s internal strategic directions, which should always serve as the guiding principle for any initiative. It is precisely the search for the intersection between these two dimensions that allows organizations to move to a more concrete level – identifying a set of work areas that respond to clear business problems and opportunities while remaining aligned with what technology can offer. The key questions this phase aims to answer are: • What are the company’s top strategic priorities, and how can AI capabilities ...

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