“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.
CON LA MISSION DI ARMONIZZARE PERSONE TECNOLOGIE E PROCESSI PER ACCOMPAGNARE L’EVOLUZIONE DELLE IMPRESE – Mosaic è il browser che ha reso popolare il World Wide Web | Simon è il primo smartphone prodotto da IBM
Momento d’oro per i videogame | Il CD è riscrivibile | Deep Blue di IBM fa scacco matto al campione Gary Kasparov | Toyota propone la prima auto ibrida
Esce il primo iMac | Nasce Google | Saul Perlmutter annuncia la scoperta della continua espansione dell’universo in costante accelerazione
Debutta MSN Messenger di Microsoft e il mondo inizia a scambiarsi messaggi, video, immagini, file ed emoticons
Arriva il digitale terrestre a trasformare la TV | Inizia l’era di Wikipedia, dell’Xbox e dell’iPod
Un giovane studente di Harward trasforma un’idea in social network: nasce Facebook | Spostarsi non è più un problema grazie al navigatore satellitare TomTom Go
Il gigante petrolifero ExxonMobil è in testa alla lista delle aziende più quotate del mondo | Comunicare in 140 caratteri è la nuova moda lanciata con #Twitter
Nasce Dropbox, capostipite di tutti i servizi cloud | Amazon rilascia il primo Kindle | Steve Jobs presenta l’iPhone e la sua interfaccia utente rivoluzionaria
È l’anno europeo della creatività e dell’innovazione | Viene scoperto il grafene | Avatar e scenari in 3D prendono vita nella realtà virtuale
UNA TRANSIZIONE STILISTICA INNOVATIVA NEL RISPETTO DELLE RADICI DELLA TRADIZIONE
Groupon sbaraglia l’e-commerce | Android è il nuovo sistema operativo in competition con IoS | Apple risponde con il lancio dell’iPad
Il touchscreen diventa multiutente | L’Enciclopedia britannica approda sul digitale | Li-Fi è il wi-fi fatto di luce
NASCE L’IDEA DI UNA FEDERAZIONE, PER CRESCERE IN UN MODELLO OLONICO VIRTUALE | Google Chrome rende disponibile i comandi vocali | Sperimentazioni di successo per la guida autonoma
Esce il primo modello di stampante 3D, lo skateboard volante e i robot che imparano dall’uomo
È l’anno delle nanotecnologie e dei materiali smart, dei wearable device, dell’Internet of Things e dei droni | Le TV hanno gli schermi flessibili
In commercio Play Station VR, vetture elettriche, Apple Airpods, Snapchat Spectacles e Google Home | Per la prima volta le cinque società di maggior valore al mondo sono tecnologiche | Il buco dell’ozono è in via di guarigione
CON FAISAL HOQUE AFFRONTIAMO LA CONVERGENZA TRA BUSINESS E IT E APRIAMO IL NOSTRO MINDSET ALLA LEADERSHIP DIGITALE | L’iPhoneX ha il riconoscimento facciale, Jibo è un robot conversazionale e gli ascensori si spostano anche orizzontalmente | Tesla e SpaceX sono solo alcuni dei progetti di Elon Musk | L’Italia è pronta all’Industry 4.0 e alla digitalizzazione dei processi aziendali | Nel mondo la parola d’ordine è streaming | L’economia monetaria viene rivoluzionata dai bitcoin
#BECOMINGTHEFUTURE è LA PRIMA ANNUAL CONVENTION DEL GRUPPO – 30° POSTO NELLA TOP100 SOFTWARE E SERVIZI IT – NUOVE PARTNERSHIP GREEN-TECH PER UNA CORPORATE SOCIAL RESPONSIBILITY CHE CI PROIETTA NEL FUTURO | Tutti attendono le Google PixelBuds | Le nostre case diventano smart con oggetti intelligenti e assistenti virtuali | La stampa 3D può creare oggetti di metallo | Milano è la città più smart d’Italia
“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 almost 30 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.
