Innovation challenges for Italian companies
Analysis of the results of the Innovation Excellence Study |
Innovation is the specific tool of entrepreneurship. The act that fosters success with a new capacity to create well-being
(Peter Drucker)
Innovation Excellence Study: a research conducted, among the best Italian companies, in collaboration with Center for Family Business Management at the Free University of Bozen/Bolzano, with the goal of taking a snapshot of the state of the art and identifying key areas for improvement and Investment in innovation.
The focus of the study:
Starting with the Innovation results Excellence Study, Maria Raffaella Caprioglio, president of Human, Michele Bonfiglioli, CEO of Bonfiglioli Consulting e Alfredo De Massis, Lecturer and Director of the Centre for Family Business Management at the Libera University of Bolzano, Will share proposals, ideas and visions for meeting the challenges of innovation Of Italian enterprises.
He will lead Edoardo D'Elia, Lecturer at the University of Bologna and at the Bologna Business School.
During the live streaming, participants will be able to interact with Q&A sessions to request insights.
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ALFREDO DE MASSIS | Lecturer and Director of the Centre for Family Business Management at the Free University of Bozen/Bolzano
Full Professor of Entrepreneurship and Family Business Management at the University of Bolzano, where he directs the Center on Family Business Management and the Cluster on Entrepreneurship, Innovation and Management.
Professor of Family Business at the Centre for Family Business at Lancaster University Management School in the UK, makes intellectual contributions at IMD Business School in Switzerland.
Chairman of the board of the Institute for Family Business at Zhejiang University in China, serves on the boards of Italian and international institutions.
In September 2015 he was listed among the world's top 25 professors of family business by the industry trade journal Family Capital, and in March 2018 the International Family Enterprise Research Academy (in a report on Rising Stars in Family Business Research included six of De Massis' articles among the most influential recent family business studies in the world).
In 2022 he is recognized by Family Capital among the Top 100 Family Business Influencers globally for his influence on the world of family business practice and science.

MARIA RAFFAELLA CAPRIOGLIO | President of Umana SpA
He has been president of Umana since 2012. He is a member of the General Council of Confindustria as well as a member of the Labor, Industrial Relations and Welfare Technical Group and the Education Technical Group. He is also a member of the General Council of Confindustria Venezia Rovigo, Confindustria Belluno, Unione Industriale Pisana, and Assolombarda; for the latter, he is also a member of the Board of Directors of the Innovation Services Group and of the Technical Group University and Human Capital. He is also a member of the Board and Council of the Venice Rovigo Chamber of Commerce and the Unioncamere del Veneto Council, as well as Sole Director of Camera Servizi. He sits on the Board of Directors of Certottica Scrl and Dolomiti Cert.

MICHELE BONFIGLIOLI | CEO, Bonfiglioli Consulting
He holds a degree in Management Engineering from the University of Bologna, a Diploma in Business Administration from Berkeley University, California (USA) and was a Research Fellow in Manufacturing Engineering at the University of Nottingham.
He has been CEO of Bonfiglioli Consulting since 2014, and is also founder of the Lean Factory School®. He has held senior roles and responsibilities in Confindustria.
Author of books and expert on Lean Thinking and Lean World Class® topics particularly in the automotive, industrial goods, electronics and pharmaceutical sectors. He has organized major international benchmarking studies and is recognized as an international speaker on Operational Excellence topics.

EDOARDO A. D'ELIA | Lecturer at the University of Bologna
Lecturer in Writing and Argumentation and Public Speaking at the University of Bologna; Lecturer in Business Communication at Bologna Business School (BBS); Lecturer in Multimedia Communication at Unicollege SSML in Mantua. He works as a trainer and moderator in in-presence and digital events. He holds a degree in Philosophical Sciences. He has written. Speaking. Tools and techniques of speech, Hoepli (2020).