Archive for the ‘Business’ Category

Valid help

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 ...

Un valido aiuto

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 ...

AITech-Assinform annual report

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, ...

It is not a matter of instruction

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 ...

Outsourcing IT for small business

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 ...

What is IT?

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 ...

A case of innovation

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, ...