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These times it’s easy to be hyper critical about Italy, beset as it is by rifts that are difficult to heal and heavy contradictions. To say it outright, those who are pettily ironic about our private (and public) vices, have an easy time of it resorting to the many clichés that dog us.

Acceleration by Stefano Lavorini

Let’s value things. Hence, to start off the new year, let’s try and remember who we are.

Acceleration by Stefano Lavorini

January 2nd 2013 Corsico (MI) witnessed the funeral of Alfio Gianatti, CEO of Cicrespi SpA, who in just a few months succumbed to a serious illness.

Acceleration by Stefano Lavorini

We know the way things are. Istat describes an Italian work market situation that is to say the least worrying: in September 2012 unemployment reached 10.%, which means 2,774 million people without work. And on top of that, the rate of unemployment of Italians between 15 and 24 years of age is up by 35.1%.

Acceleration by Stefano Lavorini

According to Wikipedia, the sit-com (situation comedy) is a form of comedy based on the representation of the emotional and social interaction of a limited number of characters immersed in a family environment, which viewers and spectators can easily identify themselves with.

Very fashionable until the early '90s, the question of corporate strategy have fallen into disuse. At the beginning of 2000 imaginative and bold strategic theories glittering with joy and optimism flourished.

Acceleration by Stefano Lavorini

«This summer is also over and we are back…and its time to start up again».This the opening phrase of our September editorial of some years ago, but it gives me the cue for a trip down memory lane, taking a look at what I wrote over the years after the summer break, with the doubt that many are the things – the same things - still left to be done.

Acceleration by Stefano Lavorini

It’s nice to be able to establish that progress never stops, not even in this period of crisis, marked by downturns in nearly all segments of the huge world of packaging producers and users.

Acceleration by Stefano Lavorini

Ours is a difficult world. A world in which even our fears have changed, and changed for the worse. This the sense of the talk given by professor Paolo Legrenzi which closed the proceedings of the fourth edition of the Economic Packaging Conference (Venice 30th and 31st May) organized by the Istituto Italiano Imballaggio in cooperation with Conai, the Italian national packaging consortium.

Whether companies, large corporations or SMEs, enterprises are always highly focused on the problems of business strategy in the broad sense of the term ...