Archive for the ‘Business’ Category
Friday, March 6th, 2009
This is the article I published on “Genova Impresa”, the Confindustria Genova bi-monthly newspaper. From my eight great-grandparents, four grandparents and (May God help and keep them!) two parents, I came to this World halfway through 1980. In my genetic baggage (ramshackle, like everyone’s, for the great weight accumulated by ...
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Friday, March 6th, 2009
Dopo una lungo periodo di “silenzio” su questo blog (perche’ spendo il mio tempo “a fare” e non “a dire”), riporto di seguito il testo in lingua italiana dell’articolo pubblicato sull’edizione 1-2009 di “Genova Impresa”, bimestrale edito da Confindustria Genova. A breve sara’ disponibile anche la traduzione inglese. Dai ...
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Tuesday, February 27th, 2007
Today I attended a meeting, which I had been invited to by AITech-Assinform (Italian Association for Information Technology) in Milan. This event intended, as usual, to give a detailed preview of the “Report on IT, TLC and multimedia 2006” to the associated members. During the general manager of AITech-Assinform speech, ...
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Saturday, January 20th, 2007
The more times I meet so called “IT professionals”, the more times I regretfully find out the inability of “business-decision-makers” to estimate IT competencies. The complexity inside new technologies can make crazy anyone who has not chosen to be a technician, but it is my opinion that anyone can get ...
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Wednesday, January 17th, 2007
Recently I read some articles about the outsourcing model and the implications it could have in a small business scenario. Many people who have written about this topic say that the main reason for a small company to use an outsourced IT model would be to cut the licensing, purchasing ...
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Wednesday, November 8th, 2006
In my previous post “A case of Innovation” I wrote a little bit about what I do and how I do it. Some readers, who do not know me, might have been a little confused about me showing a successful IT project as a rare innovative case history, so I ...
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Monday, October 30th, 2006
Every day I hear somebody speaking or writing about “Innovation”: it seems to be the password to gain access to the forum of the high-tech debates. How many times have I heard it while attending meetings, conferences or seminars in the halls of Confindustria Genova, and every time it was pronounced, ...
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