The Smart city artifact is about ten years old, and It emerged at the crossroads of two independent trends: on the one hand the gentrification of city centers, by the so-called creative class; on the other end the technological push of IT companies, aiming at selling the so-called smart solutions…

Famous Last Words, or in Italian “le ultime parole famose”, is an ironic expression, which refers to deathbed bold statements and predictions, famously challenged by the unfolding of events. …

What do Google, Lehman Brothers, religion and 9/11 have in common? In his 2001 and 2007 best-sellers[1], Lebanese-American author and thought Leader Nassim Nicholas Taleb develops the Black Swan Theory, by providing empirical facts and theoretical frameworks, to the notion of unlikely events. A Black Swan is an outlier event…

In a recent post, I highlighted the importance of approaching digital transformation in the right way and honest way: too many companies treat the process as a limited experiment, and many more do not even try, just pretend they are transforming. Nevertheless, there is a third, critical dimension for digital…

Waiting for Godot? No! Just another debate on Industry 4.0 Bluevine Consulting invited me to speak at one of their Future 2-to-5 conferences on the Industry 4.0, on June 5th. My participation consisted of a keynote and as panelist in a debate. During the panel discussion, moderated by Artur Olejniczak, I exchanged views with Ralph Talmont and Chris Wróbel, on…

Side effects of #theBlur: Brands at risk of Extinction by Algorithm In our research, ‘Premium Beyond Digital’, we have defined the mega-trend of #theBlur, whereby categories, occasions and ultimately our lifestyles, are overlapping and blurring into new concepts. These new constructs tend to be not as actionable as the previous paradigms, because they lack repetitiveness and they are not often categorized…