“Waiting to “get it right” – the right timing or the right offering – won’t work.”
(Peter H. Diamandis, Exponential Transformation)
Those waiting for the perfect opportunity, waiting to get it right, risk missing opportunities.
Experimenting, daring, continually setting new objectives and obstacles to overcome: this is the right spirit for experiencing your journey with determination, welcoming change as it develops and writing your own story.
My own professional story started 25 years ago, fruit of a business idea with regard to which I was initially a dreamer and later the founder of Altea Federation, together with my fellow travellers. Recently, during the Xmas party organized for my A-People, I enjoyed recalling my first business trips with a mobile phone on the Memory Wall: it was nothing short of a dream being able to communicate with colleagues and customers without having to use public phone booths and token coins. This was an authentic revolution in our way of interacting and communicating… and yet, even then, not everyone had fully grasped the enormous impact of the technology. Not everyone had perceived the orthogonal dimension of the technological progress that was to ensue, not to mention the enhancement of our life and work quality.
If I think back to our journey, to the evolution of Altea Federation, to the changes affecting society as a whole, I realize the extent to which technology has been a faithful travel companion, in my private and professional life, by changing the way in which we observe our surroundings, by capturing images, measuring time, transmitting information, communicating and sharing the story, which is also our own story. It would seem unnatural to me, today as in the past, to envisage a future without grasping the opportunities offered by technologies, always trying to be one step ahead in order to perceive the oncoming disruption.
This is a talent any exponential leader possesses and exercises, to offer a long-term vision and involve more and more people in the pursuit of a single mission. People like my A-People, our Customers and the numerous Partners we have always worked with, from the outset, to offer innovative solutions which are technology-driven but, above all, human-oriented.
WITH THE MISSION TO HARMONIZE PEOPLE, TECHNOLOGIES AND PROCESSES FOR ACCOMPANYING THE EVOLUTION OF BUSINESSES – Mosaic is the browser which has made the World Wide Web popular | Simon is the first Smartphone produced by IBM
A magical moment for videogames | CDs are rewritable | IBM’s Deep Blue checkmates chess champion Gary Kasparov | Toyota presents the first hybrid car
the first iMac is launched on the market | Google is born | Saul Perlmutter announces the discovery that the expansion of the universe is constantly accelerating
Microsoft’s MSN Messenger makes its debut and the world starts to exchange messages, videos, images, files and emoticons
Digital terrestrial technology transforms TV| the new age of Wikipedia, Xbox and iPod are born
A young Harvard student transforms an ideal into a social network: Facebook is launched | Finding our way around is no longer a problem thanks to the Tom Tom Go satellite navigator
The giant oil company Exxon Mobil ranks as the most valuable listed company in the world | Communicating in 140 characters is the new fashion launched by #Twitter
the launch of Dropbox, the forerunner of all cloud services | Amazon releases the first Kindle | Steve Jobs presents the iPhone and its revolutionary user interface
The European year of creativity and innovation | Graphene is discovered | Avatar and 3D scenarios come to life in virtual reality
AN INNOVATIVE STYLISTIC TRANSITION STILL DEEPLY ROOTED IN TRADITION
Groupon takes e-commerce by storm | Android is the new operating system competing with IoS | Apple responds by launching the iPad
Touchscreen becomes multi-user | The Encyclopaedia Britannica goes digital | Li-Fi is Wi-Fi based on light
THE IDEA OF A FEDERATION TAKES FORM, BASED ON A VIRTUAL HOLONIC GROWTH MODEL | Google Chrome makes vocal commands available | Successful experimentation of self-driving vehicles
Launch of the first 3D printer model, the flying skateboard and robots that learn from humans
This is the year of nanotechnologies and smart materials, wearable devices, the Internet of Things and drones | TVs have flexible screens
The market greets the VR Playstation, electrically driven cars, Apple Airpods, Snapchat Spectacles and Google Home | For the first time, the first five companies of greatest value worldwide are technological | the ozone hole is healing
WITH FAISAL HOQUE WE ADDRESS THE CONVERGENCE BETWEEN BUSINESS AND IT AND OPEN OUR MINDSET TO DIGITAL LEADERSHIP | The iPhoneX is endowed with facial recognition, Jibo is a social robot and lifts can also move horizontally | Tesla and SpaceX are just some of the projects by Elon Musk | Italy is ready for Industry 4.0 and the digitalization of company processes | The global keyword is streaming | The monetary economy is revolutionized by Bitcoins
#BECOMINGTHEFUTURE IS THE GROUP’S FIRST ANNUAL CONVENTION – 30TH IN THE TOP100 SOFTWARES AND IT SERVICES – NEW GREEN-TECH PARTNERSHIPS FOR A CORPORATE SOCIAL RESPONSIBILITY THAT PROJECTS US INTO THE FUTURE | Great expectations for Google Pixel Buds | Our homes become smart with intelligent objects and virtual assistants | 3D printing can create metal objects | Milano is the smartest city in Italy
“With your commitment to lead your organization through to positive change, the future is even more exciting than the present.” (Peter H. Diamandis, Exponential Transformation)
Exactly, the future is exciting! All the opportunities we have to grow and be successful are facilitated and supported by exponential technologies, by their utilization and their recombination, to improve our work and lifestyle. Technology leads mankind into an extraordinary age, one of abundance, towards a sustainable economic model.
And this applies to us too.
We shall continue to pursue our one and only mission, we shall offer to flank companies in order to help them interpret and anticipate the emerging trends and technologies which can be applied most effectively to business contexts and requirements.
We shall grow as a federation of companies, while extending our offering and partnerships with vendors and start-ups.
We shall promote the ExO model, with specifically targeted consultancy services to transform processes and organization and to grow exponentially.
#Human will be imperative for the A-People’s coming year, to care for and nourish our human capital by providing inspiration and skilling experiences focused on smart technologies.
We shall open up our horizons and, above all, our way of thinking, to boost creativity, also through contests, in our search for Big Impact Ideas.
Immersed in this constant state of disruption, we shall face our next challenge, our commitment to become a B-Corporation.
To pursue a growth model in harmony with the environment and people’s wellbeing, while developing economic growth opportunities.
To become a B-Corp in order to become part of the community of leaders who believe in business as a force for good. Innovative companies, thanks to the methods and technologies they use, organizations that are ready to transform their business model, while evaluating the impact of their decisions on workers, customers, suppliers and the entire community.
The certification process of Altea Federation is under way, but there are still many decisions to take and numerous good actions and habits to implement. However, I am proud to present you our green-tech projects with which we close 2018, impatient to start the new year with our customary determination.
Green projects in a human-tech key, to act responsibly along the horizon line we call future and to view tomorrow as if it were already here.
BIO
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.
