Sailing against the wind in industrial storms
Presentation of the fifth edition of the Nomisma, CRIF and CRIBIS study
Companies that – in terms of organisation, results and culture – represent examples to follow. Companies that don’t have to be imitated, but can rationally provide models from which to take inspiration, to grow other companies and therefore generate prosperity. All things considered, this is the reason that “Controvento: le aziende che guidano il Paese” (Against the wind: the companies leading the country), prepared by Nomisma in collaboration with CRIF and CRIBIS, remains important research. The fifth edition was presented a few days ago.
These companies “sailing against the wind” don’t just make progress, but do it despite problems, perhaps exploiting those occasions to do business that others don’t succeed in acquiring. It’s not a tight huddle of manufacturing organisations but, as the research itself explains, a group that has grown stronger over the years, much more when compared to the rest of the country’s manufacturing sector. Because – and this should be noted – the survey looks at companies who succeed in growing by defying the tide and overcoming the obstacles of today’s market. Such companies are still manufacturing companies, which is to say the ones that, for better or worse, firmly make up the core of the national industrial system.
As has now become customary, the research gives an account of the strategies and figures of these exemplary businesses and offers a meaningful snapshot of them as well. The aggregate analysis of the 2022 financial reports (the latest available) shows that 6.5% of Italian companies can guarantee competitiveness parameters enabling them to be classified as companies “sailing against the wind”. Altogether, they generate 9.4% of the revenues and 14.2% of the total added value of Italian manufacturing. The study brings out particular traits that should give us pause for thought, like the size class or the relationship between the North and South of Italy, with businesses in the South demonstrating a greater propensity to sail against the wind with respect to the rest of the country.
The Nomisma, CRIF and CRIBIS study therefore illustrates capacity and ability to produce and grow which are extraordinary, but not such a rarity in the Italian economy. The Osservatorio Controvento monitoring project aims to identify and promote it, and its annual report succeeds in summarising it effectively.
Controvento: le aziende che guidano il Paese
Various authors.
Nomisma, CRIF and CRIBIS, 2024
Presentation of the fifth edition of the Nomisma, CRIF and CRIBIS study
Companies that – in terms of organisation, results and culture – represent examples to follow. Companies that don’t have to be imitated, but can rationally provide models from which to take inspiration, to grow other companies and therefore generate prosperity. All things considered, this is the reason that “Controvento: le aziende che guidano il Paese” (Against the wind: the companies leading the country), prepared by Nomisma in collaboration with CRIF and CRIBIS, remains important research. The fifth edition was presented a few days ago.
These companies “sailing against the wind” don’t just make progress, but do it despite problems, perhaps exploiting those occasions to do business that others don’t succeed in acquiring. It’s not a tight huddle of manufacturing organisations but, as the research itself explains, a group that has grown stronger over the years, much more when compared to the rest of the country’s manufacturing sector. Because – and this should be noted – the survey looks at companies who succeed in growing by defying the tide and overcoming the obstacles of today’s market. Such companies are still manufacturing companies, which is to say the ones that, for better or worse, firmly make up the core of the national industrial system.
As has now become customary, the research gives an account of the strategies and figures of these exemplary businesses and offers a meaningful snapshot of them as well. The aggregate analysis of the 2022 financial reports (the latest available) shows that 6.5% of Italian companies can guarantee competitiveness parameters enabling them to be classified as companies “sailing against the wind”. Altogether, they generate 9.4% of the revenues and 14.2% of the total added value of Italian manufacturing. The study brings out particular traits that should give us pause for thought, like the size class or the relationship between the North and South of Italy, with businesses in the South demonstrating a greater propensity to sail against the wind with respect to the rest of the country.
The Nomisma, CRIF and CRIBIS study therefore illustrates capacity and ability to produce and grow which are extraordinary, but not such a rarity in the Italian economy. The Osservatorio Controvento monitoring project aims to identify and promote it, and its annual report succeeds in summarising it effectively.
Controvento: le aziende che guidano il Paese
Various authors.
Nomisma, CRIF and CRIBIS, 2024