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 the accumulated debits of scatter-brained […]

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 miei otto bisnonni, quattro nonni […]

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, Federico Barilli showed one more […]

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 a trustworthy evaluation about the […]

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 or maintenance costs of their […]

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 would like to explain one […]

  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, it was misspelled or misunderstood […]