From Michele Bonfiglioli's new book presentation to the field experience at Secondo Mona: a day to explore the new paradigm of Italian industrial competitiveness
In an industrial context marked by profound transformations, global competition, technological acceleration, and increasing market complexity, The real challenge for businesses is not simply adapting to change. It's learning to master it.
This meeting, organized in collaboration with Secondo Mona, is born precisely from this vision: to create a moment of concrete and authoritative discussion on how companies can strengthen their competitiveness, building more robust organizational models, more effective processes, and strategies capable of generating long-term value.
The starting point will be the presentation of the new book by Michele Bonfiglioli, 25 Years of Italian-Style Lean Thinking. A New Paradigm for Competitiveness in the Global Change Arena.a story of experiences, best practices, and reflections developed over more than two decades of business transformations, with the goal of offering companies concrete tools to face contemporary challenges.
Secondo Mona represents an excellent and winning example of an Italian company capable of investing in the future. With over 120 years of history in the aeronautics sector, specializing in the design, production, and overhaul of onboard systems and equipment for civil and military aircraft, Secondo Mona has evolved over time while maintaining its industrial roots and developing a strong capacity for innovation, quality, and responsiveness to customer needs.
This appointment will therefore be an opportunity to bring together vision and practice.: on the one hand, the reflections contained in the book; on the other hand, the hands-on experience of Secondo Mona, observable directly through the Factory Tour.
During the Round table will be explored Enabling factors for effectively addressing contemporary challengesthe ability to choose one's “championship,” strategic focus, process-based reorganization, the role of leadership, skills development, continuous improvement, and execution discipline.
Following, the Project presentation and the Factory Tour will allow participants to appreciate the ongoing transformation project live: a concrete experience to understand how the principles of Lean Thinking and of theOperational Excellence they can translate into organizational choices, management tools, and operational practices capable of generating real impact.
Arrival and participant welcome
9:30 AM - 10:45 AM | Round table and book presentation 25 years of Lean Thinking the Italian way
How to win the challenges of the new competitive arena and the enabling agents to face contemporary challenges.
10:45 AM – 11:30 AM | The Road to 100 Evolution Project
From strategic choices to the adopted operating model: organizational solutions, management tools, and operational practices capable of generating real impact to make the company even more solid, responsive, and competitive
11:30 AM - 12:30 PM | Factory Tour at Secondo Mona
Field visit to observe the transformation project and the path to Operational Excellence.
Q&A
Space for discussion with participants.
Networking lunch
Concluding moment for relationship and networking.
A meeting designed to look beyond daily operations and understand how to build more focused, resilient, and competitive companies. Because the future isn't waited for: it's designed, organized, and built, one step at a time.
The event will take place at Villa Hermann – via Pensuti, 2 – 21019, Somma Lombardo (VA)
Michele Bonfiglioli's new book evolves Lean Thinking by integrating strategy, technology, and people.
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