You might want to know about me looking into my professional development:

 

Innovation is my passion - I love my work as facilitator of innovation, which I do in a variety of roles:

• broker of innovation supporting NineSigma, a partner and a global company leader in the field of Open Innovation;

• supporter of innovation of innovation processes, through the proprietary methodology “Innov-Action”, co-developed with the School of COAching-SCOA;

• designer of innovative supply chains in Logistics, including the opportunities of new fuels-use and intermodality;

• start-upper in the field of VOIP technology, having co-founded Pointercom, one of the first companies in Italy developing voice&video applications for large carriers and corporations;

 

My managerial career – I was a top manager for more than twenty years in large multinational corporations. My experience in these roles allowed me to create a deep understanding of management issues and challenges. I was responsible of ICT governance at a corporate level, of worldwide logistics in a components business, of plant automation and information systems. I handled both staff and line responsibilities. The main companies I worked at are: Fiat Group, Iveco Group, Ilva steel group.

 

My entrepreneurial career – My beginning was as an “intrapreneur“, founder of one of the first and largest telecommunication companies in the 1990s in Italy, delivering services which integrated voice and data transmission at a national level. The business was based on a complete redesign of the existing separate networks of the mother company: 20 computer farms were connected, with more than 10.000 users.

 

Then I founded FareImpresa (translated: "Do Business") so to exploit my knowlede in ICT and nurture the industry digitalization of “old economy” sectors.

It has been a long journey which allowed me to work with large companies and pubblic organizations, with the following project goals:

• redesign information systems through strategy analysys and planning;

• propose new organizational structures for their ICT departments;

• analyze scenarios relevant to the seeker's commitment: ICT, Open Innovation of the Public Administration; Logistics;

• diagnose the current status of Information Systems in order to generate a new plan: done for pension funds and a variety of industries;

• improve innovation processes: regenerate the processes of innovation with our unique Innov-Action approach: done for large food multinational companies;

• help companies find technological solutions for innovation: developing business for our partner NineSigma, a global leader in open innovation services. The is no need to re-invent the wheel each time: the solutions to your challenges are already there, somewhere in the world.

 

My digital and social media experience – I had the fantastic opportunity to develop this special expertise thanks to a large community of Italian freelance engineers and architects - there are 175.000 in Italy -  whose official pension fund asked me to create an innovative tool to help them connect and improve their revenues.

I thus developed and currently manage a network of over 7.600 people, who discuss current issue and meet up to do business and collaborate.

In the last five years, we launched many different projects including the following:

• creativity roundtables: to identify needs and generate ideas to develop business;

• incubator of startups supporting eleven projects: some were successful and created new activities in the fields of security in construction, urban regeneration and associations to win tenders;

• internationalization projects: we aggregated a number of motivated professionals to create innovative offers for internationalization to a targeted country and market.

 

Master in Coaching –  my trigger was when I gained awareness that innovation is made by people, and that technology is a key driver, which has to be managed carefully. After two years of study, practitioning and reflections, I now use coaching tools such as active listening, feedback stimulation, enlarging creativity toolmongery, transformational journeys, coach2coachee interactions, value added project coaching and many others. I apply a coaching approach all my professional activities because it gives a special energy and value to my partner’s and client’s assets.

 

The point I want to make is that you are the key to your future. You can build instead of forecasting. Your management team can be nurtured to become more and more pro-active and engaged.