Resilient, and therefore resistant
Recent experiences by a few Italian enterprises provide some examples of resilience and the ability to restart
Flexibility, or, resilience – the capability to adapt and respond with deliberate and prompt actions. These are the features of enterprises that want to be ambitious, not just in terms of survival but also of growth, in a complex environment such as ours is today. It is around these topics, and especially that of resilience, that Giocare d’anticipo. Le aziende italiane e il vantaggio di una resilienza costruita nel tempo (Planning ahead. Italian companies and the benefit of resilience built over time) revolves, a recently published book of just over 150 pages collaboratively written by Marco Moretti, Davide Arpili and Federico Severi.
The book starts with an observation: if, before COVID-19, the war between Russia and Ukraine and the energy crisis, the key requirement of enterprises was sustainability, now the activities of production organisations must be founded on resilience. In other words, the pandemic first, and the war and energy and raw material crises later, have forced enterprises to reassess traditional management strategies, to accelerate innovation and, above all, to adopt a new mindset and managerial attitude geared towards change.
The book includes two well-differentiated yet interconnected parts. First of all, also according to the analysis of corporate results undertaken by the Boston Consulting Group, it highlights how resilience and a faster recovery were guaranteed, even in the most complex situations, by the ability to “plan ahead”, anticipating events and, most of all, getting the entire organisation ready to face a possible crisis. In other words, the ability to always be ready for anything – at all times.
The second part, on the other hand, includes a number of interviews with managers of large companies, who narrate their journey towards that kind of resilience that kept the business afloat. Thus, we find the stories of Alpitour World, Coop Alleanza 3.0, Hitachi, Recordati, Valentino, and many others.
Moretti, Arpili and Severi’s work is ideal reading for those who wish to better understand the positive evolution of Italian industry in recent times.
Giocare d’anticipo. Le aziende italiane e il vantaggio di una resilienza costruita nel tempo (Planning ahead. Italian companies and the benefit of resilience built over time)
Marco Moretti, Davide Arpili, Federico Severi
EGEA, 2023
Recent experiences by a few Italian enterprises provide some examples of resilience and the ability to restart
Flexibility, or, resilience – the capability to adapt and respond with deliberate and prompt actions. These are the features of enterprises that want to be ambitious, not just in terms of survival but also of growth, in a complex environment such as ours is today. It is around these topics, and especially that of resilience, that Giocare d’anticipo. Le aziende italiane e il vantaggio di una resilienza costruita nel tempo (Planning ahead. Italian companies and the benefit of resilience built over time) revolves, a recently published book of just over 150 pages collaboratively written by Marco Moretti, Davide Arpili and Federico Severi.
The book starts with an observation: if, before COVID-19, the war between Russia and Ukraine and the energy crisis, the key requirement of enterprises was sustainability, now the activities of production organisations must be founded on resilience. In other words, the pandemic first, and the war and energy and raw material crises later, have forced enterprises to reassess traditional management strategies, to accelerate innovation and, above all, to adopt a new mindset and managerial attitude geared towards change.
The book includes two well-differentiated yet interconnected parts. First of all, also according to the analysis of corporate results undertaken by the Boston Consulting Group, it highlights how resilience and a faster recovery were guaranteed, even in the most complex situations, by the ability to “plan ahead”, anticipating events and, most of all, getting the entire organisation ready to face a possible crisis. In other words, the ability to always be ready for anything – at all times.
The second part, on the other hand, includes a number of interviews with managers of large companies, who narrate their journey towards that kind of resilience that kept the business afloat. Thus, we find the stories of Alpitour World, Coop Alleanza 3.0, Hitachi, Recordati, Valentino, and many others.
Moretti, Arpili and Severi’s work is ideal reading for those who wish to better understand the positive evolution of Italian industry in recent times.
Giocare d’anticipo. Le aziende italiane e il vantaggio di una resilienza costruita nel tempo (Planning ahead. Italian companies and the benefit of resilience built over time)
Marco Moretti, Davide Arpili, Federico Severi
EGEA, 2023