Admit it: in the last year, you have thought, “I have a startup idea that will make me a millionaire“. Another classic statement is: “yes, I believe I can create the new Facebook for pets”, or “the new Airbnb for camping”, or the “Youporn for food”. It’s easy to create “the new insert a famous platform for random product”. What you may miss, is […]
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🧠 How to Assess Knowledge Management in Organisation
The Knowledge-Economy We already mentioned previously that the importance of knowledge and knowledge management has been rising noticeably in the last decades. Firms and organisations value more and more intangible resources and intellectual capital. More and more competitive advantage is due to the ability of a given company to gain critical insights on the market, as investors know. According to NYU Stern […]
🪢 Do We Perceive Connections Correctly? A Network Approach
Network Centrality Measure In the last articles, we explored different aspects of network theory. After introducing networks and their presence in everyday life, we tried to understand how to create one in R, starting from a list of members sharing different interests or activities. Let’s start adding another layer of deepens by exploring the concept of centrality. Given a network, the centrality measures how often […]
🤹♀️ Does Skill Sharing Influence Communication?
Introduction Have you ever found yourself in a group of people talking in an unknown language? Like going to the beach and founding a quantum physic convention on the seashore? It can be a funny situation, but at the same time, it gives some point of reflection. When you collaborate every day, does an individual’s background have any influence on how […]
🎭 What an Improv Class Can Teach: Life as Theatre
Improv 101 Doing scary things once in a while is essential. And what could be more terrifying for such an introvert like me than subscribing to a theatre improv class? That is how I started one of the most exciting experiences of my life. In fall 2019, before the world changed forever for the Covid pandemic, I started joining a group […]
🤖 Are Machines Going to Take Our Jobs?
Are robots going to replace us? Moflin is the first robotic pet backed up by Vanguard, and it has been presented this year at CES 2021, the world’s biggest innovation conference in the world. It looks like a pillow with eyes; it has emotional and learning capabilities and different emotional states that adapt to their interactions. AI and Robots can be funny, but […]
📚 How to Read +70 Books Every Year
Reading nowadays is more complicated than ever. Raise your hand if you always promise to read more books, or if you have planned to read 50 books on New Year’s Eve and find yourself now with three or four books achieved. It’s not only you, but simply life seems to have become challenging for readers: stress at work, family meetings, cocktails, […]
🖍 Stile Your Charts Like Wes Anderson in R
One of the reasons why 2021 will be better than 2020 is that The French Dispatch will be released (on October 22nd, to be precise). For the non-fans, The French Dispatch is the latest effort of Wes Anderson, one of the most appreciated directors around. If you haven’t seen any of his movies, you have to grab Moonrise Kindom or […]
💡 Enel Innovation: An Italian Job
As I was sharing some days ago, given the actual cultural context, it is common knowledge that Italy is a “stuck” country, where politicians are old, innovation does not happen, and young people have to escape to find jobs. I will use Enel and its fantastic transformation to fight against the stereotype using the Open Innovation paradigm. What’s Enel? Enel is […]
👔 How to Run an Effective Meeting and Improve Reporting at Every Organisational Level
Meetings can be dysfunctional. Have you ever felt like you are attending useless meetings at work, losing a lot of time that you could have employed on that urgent task? Maybe you’re even upset because your colleague forgot to fix that problem they said she would have done. Do you wonder how to run an effective meeting? Why does this happen? […]