A talk by Gabriele Ruffatti at Bologna Business School - May 28th, 2016

1. MBA PART-TIME
Information Systems for Management
May 28th, 2016
Gabriele Ruffatti
Technical, Innovation & Research Division
Engineering Group
OPENNESS
AS THE ENGINE FOR
DIGITAL INNOVATION
(a journey with three words)

2. individuus
persōna

3. Business Integration
Consulting
Outsourcing
Products and solutions
A global player
1,000
large accounts
30cities
8,100
professionals
877.5 mn€
total revenues
+ 3,000
external resources
9%
market share
in Italy
ABROADIN ITALY
Wilmington
USA BRAZIL ARGENTINA BELGIUM
BrusselsBuenos AiresSãu Paulo / Rio de Janeiro / Recife
Belo Horizonte / Curitiba
REP. OF SERBIA
Belgrade
NORWAY
Oslo
www.eng.it
ENGINEERING GROUP

4. TECHNOLOGICAL AUDITS
REPLICABLE SOLUTIONS RESULTS OF
RESEARCH PROJECTS
CLIENT
INNOVATION
LOOKING FOR NEW BUSINESS
OPPORTUNITIES AND NEW MARKETS
WITH DEDICATED TOOLS
CONSULTANCY IN THE DEFINITION
AND MANAGEMENT OF INNOVATION
PROCESSES
TRAINING ON INNOVATION
MANAGEMENT
BUSINESS UNITS
EXPERIMENTAL CHECKS
REPLICABLE COMPONENTS
RESEARCH
IDEAS FOR RESEARCH
PROJECTS
NEW VALUE PROPOSITION AND NEW BUSINESS OPPORTUNITIES
BASED ON ASSET RELATED TO RESEARCH PROJECTS
OFFER AND SUPPLY
PARTNERSHIP
PARTICIPATION
IN RESEARCH PROJECTS
33mn€/year
of investments
ENGINEERING’s STRATEGY
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5. MARKETS
PA & HEALTHCARE
FINANCE
INDUSTRY & SERVICES
TELCO & UTILITIES
MANAGEDOPERATIONS/CLOUD
COMPETENCY CENTERS
SOFTWARE LABS
TECHNICAL STRUCTURES BUSINESS UNITS
ENGINEERING
• Automation & Control
• Big Data
• BI & DataWareHouse
• BMS
• ECM
• ERP
• GIS
• Intelligent Transportation System
• Open Source & SpagoBI
RESEARCH & DEVELOPMENT
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ENGINEERING’s MARKET APPROACH

6. A JOURNEY with THREE WORDS

7. NETWORKS &
BEHAVIOR DYNAMISM
COMPLETE RE-DESIGN
OF IT PROCESSES
NEW APPROACHES FOR
INFORMATION MANAGEMENT
A NEW WAY TO
ACQUIRE TECHNOLOGY
NEXUS OF FORCES for DIGITAL INNOVATION

8. DIGITAL
INNOVATION

9. COMPLEXITY

10. FRAUD
DETECTION
PATTERN
CLASSIFICATION
CHURN
ANALYSIS
CAMPAIGN
EVALUATION
TOP
INFLUENCERS
RECOMMENDATION
ENGINE CUSTOMER
SEGMENTATION
# #
BIG DATA - ANALYTICAL SCENARIOS

11. DATA SOURCES STORAGE ANALYSISPROCESS
COMPLEXITY in BIG DATA MANAGEMENT

12. Classification Functional
approximation
Clustering
Dimensionality
reduction
Network
analysis
Scenario
simulation
Signal
Mining
Causal
Mining
Spatial
Mining
Optimization
Image
Mining
Video
Mining
Audio
Mining
Text
Mining
BASIC TECHNIQUES ANALYSIS AREAS
COMPLEXITY in DATA ANALYSIS

13. COMPLEXITY in DIGITAL INNOVATION

14. A STEP FORWARD

16. TRUST and DIGITAL INNOVATION

17. Credits to Paola Liberace: http://www.slideshare.net/pliberace/
TRUST and IoT - CHALLENGES

18. TRUST and IoT
IoT Trust Framework - Security, Privacy & Sustainability

19. TRUST and IoT – SUSTAINABILITY
“In this new era, it’s important to think about
the potential that your entire home could just
stop working – and planning for those
scenarios.”
What Nest's product shutdown says about the Internet of Things.
C. Warren - Apr, 5th, 2016 Mashable.com

20. OPENNESS

21. OPEN SOURCE

22. FOUR FREEDOM
USE
STUDY
IMPROVE
SHARE

23. TEAM
THE PLAY
RULES
GOAL

24. A MARKET
A PHILOSOPHY OR IDEOLOGY
A BUSINESS MODEL
A DEVELOPMENT MODEL
SOFTWARE FREE OF CHARGE
NON-COMMERCIAL SOFTWARE
IT’S NOT
A LICENSING MODEL FOLLOWING
SAME RULES OF PROPRIETARY
SOFTWARE
IT IS
OPEN SOURCE SOFTWARE IN A NUTSHELL

25. OSS DEFENDS, ENCOURAGES (or IMPOSES) FREEDOM

26. OSS ENABLES COLLABORATION
Credits to Simon Phipps

27. OSS SUGGESTS TRANSPARENT PROCESSES and DEV. BEST PRACTICES

28. OSS ENABLES NON TRADITIONAL COMMERCIAL MODELS
Credits to Simon Phipps

29. OSS IS EVERYWHERE
Credits to Simon Phipps

30. TRUST is a BRICK of OSS

31. IS OPEN SOURCE RELIABLE ?

38. THREE MORE WORDS

39. INFRASTRUCTURES

40. TOOLS

41. PHYSICS ENGINEERING &
COMPUTER SCIENCE
ECONOMY MATHEMATICSSTATISTICS COMPUTATIONAL
LINGUISTIC
DATA ANALYST
DATA ARCHITECT DATA DEVELOPER
DATA SCIENTIST RESEARCH SCIENTIST
PEOPLE

42. ROLE OF MANAGER

43. MANAGER USING INNOVATION
Don’t REINVENT THE WHEEL
Look around, don’t IGNORE INNOVATION
Focus on creating your SECRET SAUCE

44. Be ready to CHANGE DIRECTION, if
wind turns
Look at the future in a PROACTIVE way,
creating a stock of resources to be used
when the time comes
Keep your eyes and mind OPEN to
understand and bring out CHANGES at
the right time
MANAGER LEADING INNOVATION

45. CONCLUSION
… evolve
: no issue, a great choice
change

46. …
MILLENNIALS BEHAVIOUR

48. www.twitter.com (@gruffatti, @EngineeringSpa)
open source: www.spagoworld.org
ecology of value: www.spagoworld.org/blog/
social: www.linkedin.com
mailto: gabriele.ruffatti@eng.it
Credits to: Gartner Inc., Accenture, Simon Phipps, North Bridge & Black Duck Software Inc; Emerson Electric co. ,
unsplash.com, suggestions by Paola Liberace … and …everyone posting images on the internet
GREETINGS