I was born in Sicily (Italy), on 1st June 1965, and I grew up in Verbania, on the Lago Maggiore shores. Here I chose my education at IT Technical Institute “Cobianchi” and then I enrolled in Management Engineering at the Polytechnic of Milano.
Study and work, in my life, have always been in a strong connection, since I was still undergraduated and I started my career as consultant, alongside local companies. My passion has always been to comprehend how to influence organizational dynamics and improve business performances, also thanks to IT solutions.
25 years ago, ERP systems were still unexplored and the Italian industries were facing the automation of production lines. In this context, on 13th January 1993, with three friends and partners, I gave “Altea project” to life. A small consultancy company, with big ideas for the future.
Many are the stages of this travel (we speak about it on alteafederation.it), from the coming of management systems, to the strategic partnerships with international vendors (first Infor, SAP and Microsoft). Recently, a real milestone was the decision to transform our organization into a virtual holonic enterprise.
Two decades of acquisitions and newco later, in 2013 our metamorphosis has been completed: Altea Federation is a group of 17 companies, and over 1.500 people, run by a common set of vision, mission and core values, and all represented by the federative brand, symbol of our identity. Through a holistic approach, we harmonize technologies, processes and people, empowering companies’ evolution.
I am the President of Altea Federation and the first supporter of innovation. I love studying new technological trends, understanding the real advantages for companies and their business models. Enthusiastic and fascinated about the exponential era we are living in, I truly believe in technologies potential and the new human-to-machine relationship, confirming the relevance of a people-centric way of transformation.
For 26 years, Altea Federation has been working alongside the global leaders of technological innovation through a holonic-virtual business model which embraces the professional approach and high degree of specialization of a federation of companies under one brand: different yet complementary worlds which reinforce each other while preserving a strong Group identity and an unmistakable approach to the challenges posed by new paradigms in the ambits of Consulting, Technology, Digital and Operations.
Andrea Ruscica for Class CNBC
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6Ds Framework
The Abundance paradigm in the Exponential Organizations
Champion Companies
The importance of B2B in the production chain