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Casaleggio Associati      REPORT #19
                               November 2019
     Strategie di Rete

Smart
Company
Corporate evolution with the
fourth industrial revolution

                                  N°19
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Published in November 2019.
Printed in Italy.

                                                      04................... Introduction
                                                      08................... Digitalisation and the exponential technologies
                                                      11........................ Augmented and virtual reality
                                                      14........................ Artificial intelligence
                                                      16........................ Blockchain
                                                      18........................ Internet of things
                                                      20........................ Big Data
                                                      22........................ Quantum Computing
                                                      24........................ Additive manufacturing
                                                      25........................ Robotic Automation and RPA
                                                      28........................ 5G Technology
                                                      30........................ Nanotechnologies and Biotechnologies
                                                      32................... The concept of Smart Company
                                                      36........................ Continuous innovation
                                                      38........................ High levels of market value per employee
                                                      39........................ Revenue per employee
                                                      44........................ Sustained growth
                                                      49........................ Limited owned assets
                                                      50........................ More efficient processes
                                                      52........................ Human-less processes
                                                      54........................ Brand purpose
                                                      56........................ Social value
                                                      60................... The evolution of business models
                                                      67........................ Network data business
                                                      68........................ Product to service business
                                                      69........................ Platform business
                                                      70........................ Under break even market business
                                                      72........................ Self sovereign business
                                                      73........................ Real sharing business
                                                      74........................ Holacracy business
                                                      75........................ Zero profit margin business
                                                      76................... Organisational structure of the Smart Company
                                                      78........................ New organisational models
                                                      79........................ Decentralized decision
                                                      80........................ Interconnection of all objects
                                                      80........................ Information transparency
                                                      81........................ Technical assistance to augment human effort
                                                      82................... Social impact of the Smart Company
                                                      84........................ Safeguarding employment
                                                      85........................ Continuous learning
                                                      86........................ Local community, social and environmental
                                                                                                  responsibility
                                                      89................... Organisations analysed

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  Online strategy development consultancy:
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  strategia@casaleggio.it
                                                                                                       an appropriate online B2B strategy

                                                                                                     • Empowering and offering support to their sales
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  Clients based on their specific needs and the market sector in which they oper-                      and inter-company marketplaces
  ate, with the aim of advising them on their digital policy decisions and the setting
  of measurable objectives in terms of financial returns.                                            • Analysing international best-practices and
                                                                                                       considering ad hoc solutions for the companies
  Strategic Consutancy and Market Sector Research                                                    • Providing the companies with support in terms
                                                                                                       of their Advertising and Online Social Media
  The Web makes it imperative for every organisation to adopt a medium to
  longterm strategy that defines the priority, the feasibility, the implementation                     Marketing
  and the evaluation of the return on investment. An Online business strategy
  implies an overall vision in which business models, advertising and web                            • Updating the strategy and the services
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  associates and partners and generates reports on the digital economy as an aid                     • Integrating the product range on offer
  to understanding the various contexts in which the respective companies operate                      by creating innovative digital services
  and the impact of new technologies on said companies, as well as to identify trends
  and future scenarios regarding Web development and E-commerce. Furthermore,                        • Optimising the business supply-chain
  the analyses undertaken also include the current status of Italian investment                        utilising online platforms
  in research and development, Start-ups, Venture Capital, Private Equity and an
  analysis of the respective market sector in which client companies operate.
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Introduction
Introduction
                                                                                        W    e are living at a time in history in which   E   very industrial revolution to date has
                                                                                        a number of technologies will not only im-        forced companies to change their compet-
                                                                                        prove various processes as they have al-          itive paradigm.
                                                                                        ways done, but will have such a profound
                                                                                                                                          The first industrial revolution led to the
                                                                                        impact that they will radically change our
                                                                                                                                          mechanisation of production processes
                                                                                        existing corporate business models. Pic-
                                                                                                                                          thanks, at least in part, to the introduction
                                                                                        turing these new business models is an
                                                                                                                                          of steam-powered machinery, and brought
                                                                                        essential exercise if we are to have any
                                                                                                                                          about major social change.
                                                                                        hope of keeping pace with the market in
                                                                                        the next few years.                     During the second industrial revolution,
                                                                                                                                inventions such as electricity and other
                                                                                        Paraphrasing Henry Ford’s words, up to
                                                                                                                                scientific advances such as trains and the
                                                                                        now our technologies have been utilised
                                                                                                                                telegraph led the way to mass production.
                                                                                        to make the horses go faster, but these
                                                                                        nowadays they will have a major impact The third revolution was brought about
                                                                                        on the sectors as a whole.              by the advent of computers and the birth
                                                                                                                                of digital technology and resulted in the
                                                                                                                                automation of office work.
                                                                                              If I had asked people what they
                                                                                               wanted, they would have said:              The technological impact of the fourth in-
                                                                                                        faster horses.                    dustrial revolution is so pervasive that it
                                                                                                                                          is not only changing production methods
                                                                                                                     Henry Ford           or the products themselves, but the entire
                                                                                                                                          underlying business model as a whole.

                                                                                        W     hereas back in 1986 some 92% of
                                                                                        all information was stored in analogue
                                                                                                                                           The fourth industrial revolution is
                                                                                        format, in 2007 that figure had been re-
                                                                                                                                           a way of describing the blurring of
                                                                                        versed and 94% was being stored in digital
                                                                                                                                           the barriers between the physical,
                                                                                        format1 . This mountain of information,
                                                                                                                                          the digital and the biological world.
                                                                                        or so-called big data, together with the
                                                                                                                                          It’s a fusion of the progress made in
                                                                                        process of digitalisation and exponential
                                                                                                                                            the fields of artificial intelligence,
                                                                                        technologies such as artificial intelligence,
                                                                                                                                            robotics, Internet of Things (IoT),
                                                                                        blockchain and the internet of things, as
                                                                                                                                            3D printing, genetic engineering,
                                                                                        well as quantum computing – which will
                                                                                                                                              quantum computing and other
                                                                                        exponentially increase the data processing
                                                                                                                                                       technologies.
                                                                                        power of traditional computers thanks to
                                                                                        the application of quantum mechanics                            Salesforce, 2019
                                                                                        principles – has become the starting point
                                                                                        for simulating and forecasting the future.

                                                                           Source:
                                                                           1: L’algoritmo e l’oracolo: come la scienza predice il futuro e ci aiuta a cambiarlo, Vespignani, Il Saggiatore, 2019

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                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                    Introduction
                     1950          1970          1980          1990          2000                2005                      2012                         100

               T                                                                                                                                                           T
                                                                                                                                                        90
                   he major difference between this revo-                                                                                                                      his revolution in the way we do business      have access to mechanisation, whereas
               lution and all of the earlier ones, however,                                                                                                                also has a major resulting impact on society.     the second has yet to reach the 1.2-billion
                                                                          Time used by
               is all about speed. The technologies uti-                                                                                                                   Each year, 10-million people change jobs          people who do not have access to electricity5
                                                                         technologies to reach
               lised in the previous industrial revolutions                                                                                             80                 due to innovation. For many of the jobs that      and the third has yet to reach the half of
                                                                         100 million users
               made a significant impact, but measured in                                                                                                                  are dying out, other jobs are born, but they      the world population, around 3.9-billion
               terms of steady progressive improvements.                     Telephone                                                                                     employ fewer workers than in the past4,           people without access to the Internet (in
               The technologies adopted in the fourth                        Mobile                                                                                        with obvious implications for employment          the Developed Countries, 22% of the pop-
               industrial revolution are exponential by                      Internet                                                                                      figures. These days, therefore, companies         ulation has no Internet access, but in the
                                                                                                                                                        70
               definition. What this means is that while                     iTunes                                                                                        need to assess their impact on society            Developing Countries the figure rises to
               the improvements may initially seem to                                                                                                                      both as regards their general community           85%)6. Therefore, it does not necessarily
                                                                             Facebook
               be relatively minor, before long the impact                                                                                                                 improvement objectives and their indirect         follow that the fourth industrial revolu-
                                                                             Apple App Store
               of these technologies will be revolutionary                                                                                                                 impact resulting from phenomena such as           tion will affect everyone. One thing that
                                                                             WhatsApp                                                                   60
               and their adoption very widespread.                                                                                                                         hyper-productivity.                               is absolutely certain, however, is that any
                                                                             Instagram
                                                                                                                                                                                                                             companies wanting to keep up with the
               T   hanks to automation and the adoption                      Candy Crush
                                                                                                                                                                           H    uman beings are still better than ma-        markets will have to make their move as
               of exponential technologies, the productiv-                                                                                                                 chines when it comes to unstructured              soon as possible to grab hold of the benefits
                                                                                                                                                        50
               ity of exponential organisations increases                                                                                                                  problem solving, working with new infor-          of the fourth industrial revolution so as to
               tenfold within four to five years. With the                                                                                                                 mation and performing non-routine tasks.          avoid being left behind.
               third industrial revolution technology, the                                                                                                                 Thanks to innovation, we go from intuition
               30 largest companies in the world saw their
                                                                                                                                                        40
                                                                                                                                                                           to prediction and then to instruction and         H    owever, the end result is not necessar-
               profit per employee increase from 35 to                                                                                                                     this can often impact on activities that are      ily guaranteed, particularly for the larger
               83 thousand Dollars2 from 1995 to 2005.                                                                                                                     not directly involved. For example, in 2013,      companies. Notwithstanding the available
                                                                                                                                                                           Argentinean experts in the field couldn’t         technology, given the decrease in costs (for
               N   owadays, in terms of the application of                                                                                                                 figure out why the Argentinean car-washes’        example, 3D-printing costs have fallen by
               exponential technologies, we see examples                                                                                                30                 business had dropped by 50% compared              75% in 7 years and those of solar power
               such as in the agricultural sector where                                                                                                                    to the previous ten years. The reason for         have gone down by 50% in 20 years) and
               workers can manually sow 3-thousand                                                                                                                         the drop in business turned out to be a           the fast pace of the exponential model,
               seeds per day whereas they could sow                                                                                                                        widespread innovation. Weather forecasts          companies often opt for incremental inno-
               more than 100-thousand seeds in that                                                                                                     20                 had become much more accurate and                 vation rather than changing their business
               same period using drones3 while adopt-                                                                                                                      people were not having their cars washed          model due to the lower risk involved for
               ing precision agriculture practices at the                                                                                                                  when they knew that it was going to rain.         both thee managers and the company itself.
               same time.                                                                                                                                                                                                    For this reason, revolutions in any sector
                                                                                                                                                                           I
                                                                                                                                  USERS N° IN MILLION

                                                                                                                                                                             ndustrial revolutions have always had           are often led by the start-ups. It’s no mere
                                                                                                                                                        10
                                                                                                                                                                           a major impact on the economy, but they           coincidence that in the very same year in
                                                                                                                                                                           have not always affected everyone even            which Instagram was bought out for one
                                                                                                                                                                           years later. To date, the first industrial rev-   billion Dollars, Kodak was closing down.
                                                                                                                                                                           olution has yet to reach some 600-million
                                                                                                                                                        0
                                                                                                                                                                           people who live on small farms and do not
      ←1876          1950          1970          1980          1990          2000                2005                      2012

 Source:                                                                                                                                                      Source:
 2: Strategy in an era of global giants, Lowell L Bryan and Michele Zanini, McKinsey Quartely, 2005; 3: Droni possono                                         4: How will automation affect economies around the world?, McKinsey, 2019; 5: Shaping the future of the Fourth Industrial
 piantare 100.000 alberi al giorno, Notizie Scientifiche, 2018                                                                                                revolution, Klaus Schwab and Nicholas Davis, Currency, 2018; 6: Global Digital Divide & Solutions in 6 Graphics,
 Chart: Shaping    the future of the Fourth Industrial revolution, Klaus Schwab and Nicholas Davis, 2018                                                      Technology@Work, 2017

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Digitalisation and
the exponential                                                                                                                                                           T   hanks to digitalisation and the adoption
                                                                                                                                                                          of exponential technologies, we are now
                                                                                                                                                                          seeing the highest levels of productivity
                                                                                                                                                                                                                                           Digitalisation indicates the
                                                                                                                                                                                                                                       utilisation of digital technologies
                                                                                                                                                                                                                                       to change a business model and

technologies                                                                                                                                                              ever achieved in the past 40 years7.

                                                                                                                                                                          W    ithin the field of corporate digital-
                                                                                                                                                                          isation technologies, there are a number
                                                                                                                                                                                                                                     provide new revenue generating and
                                                                                                                                                                                                                                      added value opportunities: it is the
                                                                                                                                                                                                                                     process of transition to becoming a
                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                 digital company.
                                                                                                                                                                          of specific technologies that have proven
                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                      Gartner, 2019
                                                                                                                                                                          to be particularly productive and are ex-
                                                                                                                                                                          panding quickly: these are the so-called
                                                                                                                                                                          exponential technologies that, in any given
Cumulative                                                                                                                                                                period, double in terms of capacity and/
capacity of digital
technologies in time
                                                                                                                                                                          or performance, or halve the cost of an
                                                                                                                                                                          activity/operation.                                             5,1     billion
                                                                                                                                                                                                                                        Unique mobile users

                      IoT and Smart Machines

                      Big data, analytics, visualization
                                                                                                                                                                          T     hese exponential technologies include:
                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                         67%
                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                      PENETRATION
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                      Web 2.0, cloud, mobile

                      Web 1.0 eCommerce

                      Client-Server and PC

                      Mainframe
                                                                                                                                         ?
                      Artificial intelligence
CUMULATIVE CAPACITY

                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                               7,6     billion
                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                               Total population

                                                                                                                                                                                                             4,3          billion
                                                                                                                                                                                                               Internet users          57%
                                                                                                                                                                                                                                    PENETRATION

                                                                                                                                                                             3,4           billion
                                                                                                                                                                           Active social media
                                                                                                                                                                                                                         45%
                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                       Global usage of
                                                                                                                                                                                  users                                                                mobile devices,
                                                                                                                                                                                                                  PENETRATION
                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                       Internet and Social
                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                       Media in 2019
                                                                                                                                                             3,2         billion
                                                                                                                                                              Mobile social                         42%
                                                                                                                                                               media users
                                                                                                                                                                                             PENETRATION

                1950              1960          1970         1980          1990          2000             2010                 2020                          Source:
                                                                                                                                                             7: La rivoluzione necessaria - La rivoluzione economica vista da un imprenditore, Bruno Musso, 2014
Source: Chart: Digital                Transformation Initiative - In collaboration with Accenture, World Economic Forum, 2017                                Chart: Digital      in 2019, We Are Social, 2019

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Artificial                                                                      Augmented reality

                                                                                                                                                                  Digitalisation and the exponential technologies
  AR & VR              Intelligence                                                                       and virtual reality
                            (AI)
       pg.11-13            pg.14-15
                                                       V  irtual reality and augmented reality differ in terms of method of utilisation and
                                                       the technology involved.

                         Internet
 Blockchain             of Things                   “Virtual reality (VR)
       pg.16-17
                            (IoT)
                           pg.18-19               projects the user into an
                                                  imaginary or replicated
                        Quantum                 world or simulates the user’s
  Big Data             Computing                 presence in the real world.
       pg.20-21            pg.22-23
                                                 Augmented reality (AR), on
                                                the other hand, projects and
  Additive                                      overlays digital images onto
                     Robotizzation                     the real world.”
Manufacturing                                                                                       The Franklin Institute, 2019

    (3D printing)
        pg.24              pg.25-27

       pg.28-29            pg.30-31
                                                     In most cases VR devices consist of view-                    require any specific viewers but can be dis-
                                                                                                                  played on normal everyday devices (such
                                                     ers with which to see projected images,
                                                     gloves that transmit the sense of touch                      as smartphones in the case of Snapchat

                    Nanotechnologies                 and earphones to transmit sound, unlike                      and glasses in the case of Google Glass

     5G             & Biotechnologies
                                                     augmented reality experiences that do not

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                                                     T  he use of VR and AR technology has                               $ 18,6 billion                                                          T  he mobile AR segment could become                  G   oogle is also heading in this direction.
                                                     grown significantly since 2016, increasing                                                                                                  the main market segment driver and be                 Having released their Glass wearable com-
                                                                                                                        AR Revenue
                                                     from 4.4 billion Dollars in 2016 (3.8 billion                                                                                               worth some 108 billion Dollars by 2021,               puter as a mass market device in 2013,
                                                     Dollars in VR and 0.6 billion Dollars in AR) to                                                                                             with a market share of 83 billion Dollars             two years ago they opted to target only
                                                     over 160 billion in 202008.                       $ 48,7 billion                                                                            as against the 25 billion Dollars of the              the business market, thus enabling com-
                                                                                                                                                                                                 mobile VR segment10.                                  panies to reduce production times by as
                                                     B    oth markets are set to increase consid-
                                                                                                       AR Revenue
                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                       much as 25%12.
                                                     erably, both in terms of sales (27.3 billion                                                                                                T   hese technologies are already firmly
                                                     units in the case of AR and 72 billion units                                                                                                entrenched in the labour market: in 2017,
                                                     in the case of VR) and in terms of revenue                                                                                                  in the USA alone, around 10,000 job ad-
                                                     (18.6 billion Dollars in the case of AR and 50                                                                                              vertisements required VR/AR skills, an
                                                     billion Dollars in the case of AR), by 202109.                                                                                              increase of 256% since 201011.

                                                                             AR/VR unit shipment
                                                                                                                                                                                                 A   n Italian example that operates inter-
                                                                                                                                                                                                 nationally is Joinpad, which designs Aug-
                                                                             and revenue from 2016                                                                                               mented Reality technologies applicable to
                                                                             to 2021                                                                                                             industrial processes such as, for example,
                                                                                                                                                                                                 the provision of remote assistance via AR
                                                                                                                                                                                                 (utilising smart-glasses, tablets and the
                                                                                                                                                                                                 Web). AR tools that are integrated with
                                                                                                                                                                                                 IoT, big data and AI enable companies to
                                                                                                                                                                                                 improve work quality and reduce travelling
                                                                                                                                                                                                 time and travel costs.

                                                                                           2021
                                                            $ 2,1 billion          2016
                                                           VR Revenue                                                                                                                            AR/VR Platform revenue:
                                                                                                                                                                                                     Mobile/standalone VR devices
                                                                                                                                                                                                     Premium/standalone VR devices
                                                    $ 0,2 billion                                             27,3 million                                          72 million                       Smartglass
                                                                                                              AR Unit                                              VR Unit                           AR mobile
                                                  AR Revenue
                                                                                                             shipments                                            shipments

                                0,1 million                                   10 million
                 AR Unit                                                      VR Unit
                shipments                                                    shipments

                                                                                                                                                                                    2017                         2018                           2019          2020                  2021              2022
       Source:
       08: We’re Talking About AR Evolution, High Point Market, 2019; 09: Augmented Reality a $50 Billion Opportunity?,
       Statista, 2017; 10: The reality of VR/AR growth, TechCrunch, 2017; 11: Realtà Aumentata - I lavori di realtà virtuale
       diventano molto reali, Burning Glass Technologies, 2017; 12: I nuovi Google Glass sono in vendita a 999 dollari (ma
       non per tutti), Wired, 2019
       Chart:1: Augmented Reality a $50 Billion Opportunity?, Statista, 2017; 2 pag seguente: Ubiquitous $90 billion AR to
       dominate focused $15 billion VR by 2022, Digi-capital, 2018

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                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                    Digitalisation and the exponential technologies
                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                             Intelligence
                                                                                                                                                                                 I n 2018, the Artificial Intelligence market                  T  he major areas of applicability include
                                                                                                                                                                                 was worth around 20.7 billion Dollars and                     the following15:
                                                                                                                                                                                 it is estimated that this figure will rise to                 • Customer Relations (chatbots, automat-
                       Artificial Intelligence (AI) is                                                                                                                           202.6 billion Dollars13 by 2026. Current
                                                                                                                                                                                 estimates forecast that by 2035 the impact
                                                                                                                                                                                                                                               ed e-mails, humanoid robots, automated
                                                                                                                                                                                                                                               support, contractual services)
                                                                                                                                                                                 of AI on Italian productivity will amount                     • Marketing (assistance with choosing the
                    essentially machine intelligence                                                                                                                             to 12% and could be as high as 40% in a
                                                                                                                                                                                 number of other Countries14.
                                                                                                                                                                                                                                               right product and optimisation of promo-
                                                                                                                                                                                                                                               tions, management content and automat-
                                                                                                                                                                                                                                               ed market research)
                     [...]. Colloquially speaking, the                                                                                                                           T   he sectors in which AI is most applicable
                                                                                                                                                                                 are above all those that utilise large quantities
                                                                                                                                                                                                                                               • Sales (sales-team support, automated
                                                                                                                                                                                                                                               sales, sales figures)
                                                                                                                                                                                                                                               • Internal organisation (access to corpo-
                      term artificial intelligence is                                                                                                                            of data, such as the Healthcare, Automotive,
                                                                                                                                                                                 Financial Services, Transport, Logistics, Com-
                                                                                                                                                                                 munications, Entertainment, Retail, Energy
                                                                                                                                                                                                                                               rate know-how, automated time consum-
                                                                                                                                                                                                                                               ing activities, decision-making support,

                    often used to describe machines                                                                                                                              Provision, and Manufacturing sectors.                         optimisation of processes and new prod-
                                                                                                                                                                                                                                               uct development

                       (or computers) that imitate
                     the “cognitive” functions that
                   humans beings associate with the
                   human mind, such as learning and                                                                                                                                                                                                                    Artificial

                              problem-solving.
                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                       intelligence
                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                       impact on
                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                       productivity
                                                  Artificial intelligence: a modern approach,
                                                    Russell and Norvig, Prentice Hall, 2009

                                                                                                                                                                                                                                               Netherlands
                                                                                                                                                                       Finland

                                                                                                                                                                                                                           Austria

                                                                                                                                                                                                                                     Germany

                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                 Belgium
                                                                                                                                                           Sweden

                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                        France
                                                                                                                                                                                                           Japan

                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                           Italy

                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                            Spain
                                                                                                                                                                                         USA

                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                             UK
                                                                                                                                                          37%         36%               35%               34%               30%      29%       27%           25%       20%       17%       12%                      11%

                                                                                                                                                                    Source:
                                                                                                                                                                    13: Fortune Business Insights, Market Research Report, 2019; 14: Why artificial intelligence is the future of growth,
                                                                                                                                                                    Accenture, 2016; 15: The artificial intelligence business evolution, Casaleggio Associati, 2017
                                                                                                                                                                    Chart: The    artificial intelligence business evolution, Casaleggio Associati, 2017

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                                                  Blockchain

                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                   Digitalisation and the exponential technologies
                                                  A    blockchain is a shared, peer-to-peer
                                                                                                                                                 No
                                                  register that is based on blocks and is vir-                           No                 investments
                                                  tually incorruptible. Each block is linked                             answer               planned
                                                  to the one before it in the chain and bears               Less than 500

                                                                                                                                                                                                   A Blockchain is a digital
                                                                                                              thousand                                            10 million
                                                  the date stamp for each event. All that                                                                          or more
                                                  is needed for a blockchain to function is
                                                  network cooperation and no coordination                               Investments plan for
                                                  or intermediaries are necessary. The main
                                                  features that this technology offers are as
                                                                                                        From 500
                                                                                                      thousand to
                                                                                                                        blockchain technology
                                                                                                                        in organizations
                                                                                                                        worldwide in 2019
                                                                                                                                                                                                     database containing
                                                  follows:                                             less than 1                            From 5 million

                                                  • Reciprocal trust
                                                  • Elimination of the middle-man
                                                                                                         million        (in dollars)          to less than 10
                                                                                                                                                                        million               information (such as financial
                                                  • The process is irreversible
                                                  The estimated market value of this tech-                                    From 1 million
                                                                                                                                                                                                 transaction registers) that
                                                  nology will be 60.7 billion Dollars 16, by
                                                                                                                                                                                                    can be simultaneously
                                                                                                                              to less than 5
                                                                                                                                  million
                                                  2024 and by 2027 its estimated effect on
                                                  Global GDP will amount to 10% by 202717.

                                                                                                                                                                                                utilised and shared within a
                                                  C   urrent business deals in the pipeline are  T here are three rings that link the block-
                                                                                                                                                                                               large, decentralised network
                                                  based on three separate system functions, chain to the real world:
                                                  namely:
                                                                                                • Internet of things: Internet-linked                                                          accessible to the public; it is
                                                  • Ledgers: the fact that the ledger cannot objects that can detect events and acti-
                                                  be changed means that events can be certi- vate new ones, in addition to identifying
                                                  fied and linked to a specific date            products and assets.
                                                                                                                                                                                                also the technology used to
                                                  • Token: the fact that digital tokens can- • Physical Cryptocurrency:           the val-
                                                  not be duplicated and cannot be spent more ue created via a blockchain can be trans-
                                                  than once enables them to increase in value ferred and spent in the real world.
                                                                                                                                                                                                   create such a database.
                                                                                                                                                                                                                                              Cryptocurrency, Bitcoin.com, 2019
                                                  • Smart Contract:      the self-activating • Legal validity: a legal basis on which
                                                  nature of the contract opens the way for to enforce contracts entered into via a
                                                  new business models.                       blockchain18.

       Source:
       16: Blockchain Market Size is anticipated to reach USD 60.7 billion by 2024, Market Reports Center, 2018; 17: Still
       don’t understand the blockchain? This explainer will help, World Economic Forum, 2018; 18: Blockchain for business,
       Casaleggio Associati, 2018
       Chart:Investment plans for blockchain technology in organizations over the next 12 months worldwide as of April 2019,
       Deloitte & Statista, 2019

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                                                                                                                                                                                                                                             Internet

                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                            Digitalisation and the exponential technologies
                                                                                                                                                                                                                                            of Things
                                                     The Internet of Things (IoT)
                                                                                                                                                                    T                                                      I
                                                      refers to the connection of
                                                                                                                                                                        his technology is particularly important n 2018 there were some 22 billion In-
                                                                                                                                                                    in the field of Internet-linked sensors since ternet-linked IoT devices worldwide: it is
                                                                                                                                                                    it enables the recording and certification of estimated that this figure will rise to 28.6

                                                    [objects] to the Internet. Cars,
                                                                                                                                                                    events that occur in the real world.           billion by 2025 and to over 50 billion by
                                                                                                                                                                                                                   203021.
                                                                                                                                                                    By 2021, Global IoT revenues are set to hit
                                                                                                                                                                    520 billion Dollars, a growth rate of +121% Both for industrial and consumer use, the

                                                  kitchen appliances and even heart                                                                                 when compared to 201719.
                                                                                                                                                                    In Italy IoT was worth 5 billion Euro in 2018,
                                                                                                                                                                                                                   IoT connected devices in the world are es-
                                                                                                                                                                                                                   timated to increase as shown in the graph
                                                                                                                                                                                                                   below22.

                                                    monitors can be connected via                                                                                   up from 2 billion Euro in 201520.

                                                                                                                                                                                                                           5  G will undoubtedly be a facilitator of
                                                                                                                                                                                                                           this technology. Indeed, it is estimated
                                                   the IoT. Any kind of independent                                                                                                                                        that the number of 5G connections is set
                                                                                                                                                                                                                           increase from 5 million in 2019 to 2.6 bil-

                                                      device that is linked to the
                                                                                                                                                                                                                           lion by 202523.
                                                                                                                                                                                                                           Similarly, the number of IoT devices is set
                                                                                                                                                                    IoT devices connected                                  to rise from 15.4 billion in 2015 to 75.4

                                                    Internet and can be monitored                                                                                   worldwide from 2018 to
                                                                                                                                                                    2025 (billion)
                                                                                                                                                                                                                           billion by 202524.

                                                     and/or controlled remotely is
                                                                                                                                                                    • Industrial
                                                                                                                                                                    • Consumer

                                                       2018          2019                            2020                                       2021                        2022                                   2023                         2024                     2025

                                                     deemed to be an IoT device.
                                                               Business Insider, 2018

                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                           13,7
                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                 11,7
                                                                                                                                                                                                                     10
                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                           11,4
                                                                                                                                                                             8,3                                                                 10,6
                                                                                                                                                6,8                                                                  9,7
                                                                                                     5,6                                                                     8,7
                                                                     4,5                                                                               Source:
                                                                                                                                                7,9    19: Projected market revenue of the internet of things (IoT) and analytics worldwide, from 2015 to 2021 (in billion
                                                      3,7                                            7                                                 U.S. dollars), Statista, 2019; 20: Market value Internet of Things (IoT) in Italy from 2015 to 2018 (in billion eu-
                                                                                                                                                       ros), Statista, 2019; 21: Number of internet of things (IoT) connected devices worldwide in 2018, 2025 and 2030 (in
                                                                     6,2                                                                               billions), Statista, 2019; 22: Forecast number of IoT connected objects worldwide from 2018 to 2025, by type (in
                                                      5,4                                                                                              billions), Statista & GSMA Intelligence, 2019; 23: CCS Insight Predicts 1 Billion Users of 5G by 2023, with More Than
                                                                                                                                                       Half in China, CSS Insight, 2019; 24: 75 Billion IoT Devices Predicted by 2025, ACHRNEWS, 2016
                                                                                                                                                       Chart: GSMA     Intelligence, Statista, 2019

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Digitalisation and the exponential technologies
                                                  Big Data

                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                         Digitalisation and the exponential technologies
                                                                                                             Networking

                                                                                                             Data Management

                                                                                                             SQL

                                                  T   he world has gathered huge quantities
                                                  of data in the past decade. It is estimated
                                                  that 80% of all the currently available data
                                                  was generated within the last two years,
                                                                                                             Compute
                                                                                                                                                                                                            The term big data [...]                                                                                80%

                                                  whereas the remaining 20% was gathered
                                                  from the dawn of humanity until two years
                                                  ago. The current volume of available data is
                                                                                                                                                                                                              generally refers to a
                                                  expected to double within the next two years.
                                                  The data gathering process is becoming
                                                                                                                                                                                                            collection of data that
                                                  increasingly automated. As a matter of
                                                  fact, the proportion of data deriving from
                                                  sensors amounted to 11% in 2005, but it
                                                                                                                                                                                                           is so extensive in terms
                                                  is estimated that this figure will go up to
                                                  42% by 202025. To quote an example from
                                                  the field of astrology, the Sloan Digital Sky
                                                                                                             Storage

                                                                                                                                                                                                             of volume, speed and                                                                                  60%

                                                  Survey telescope that has been mapping the
                                                  structure of the galaxies generated more                                                                                                                  variety that it requires
                                                                                                                                                                                                             specific technologies
                                                  data in its first two weeks of operation in
                                                  2000 that what was gathered in the entire
                                                  history of the science of astrology.

                                                  T   he Big Data market has also shown
                                                  great potential for the future and is ex-
                                                                                                             Apps and
                                                                                                             Analytics
                                                                                                                                                                                                           and analytical methods
                                                                                                                                                                                                            to extract its value or
                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                40%
                                                  pected to continue growing consistently.
                                                  In 2017, the global value of this market
                                                  amounted to 43 billion Dollars26, but this
                                                  figure is set to rise to 103 billion Dollars
                                                  by 2027, which is more than double what
                                                  it was worth in 2018. In Italy on the other                Big Data market value
                                                                                                                                                                                                              knowledge content.
                                                  hand, the market value in 2018 amounted                    worldwide from 2011                                                                                                                            A formal definition of Big Data
                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                        based on its essential features,
                                                  to 1.4 billion Euro, as against 790 million                to 2026 (in million                                                                                                                            De Mauro, Greco, Grimaldi, 2016
                                                  Euro in 201527.                                            dollars)

                                                  In 2018, the quantity of data generated                    Professional services                                                                                                                                                                                 20%
                                                  by IoT devices alone amounted to some
                                                  13.6 zettabytes (ZB), but this figure is set
                                                  to rise to 79,4 ZB by 202528.
                                                                                                           2011          2012                2013                 2014            2015   2016   2017                2018                2019                  2020        2021        2022    2023   2024   2025                                   2026

       Source:
       25: Social Media Metrics Secrets, John Lovett, John Wiley & Sons, 2011; 26: Big data market forecast worldwide from
       2011 to 2026, by segment (in billion U.S. dollars), Statista, 2019; 27: Big data analytics market value in Italy
       from 2015 to 2018 (in million euros), Statista, 2019; 28: The Growth in Connected IoT Devices Is Expected to Generate
       79.4ZB of Data in 2025, IDC, 2019
       Chart: Big                                 data market forecast worldwide from 2011 to 2026, by segment (in billion U.S. dollars), Statista, 2019

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technologies
                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                  Quantum

                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                     Digitalisation and the exponential technologies
                         tecnologie esponenziali

                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                 Computing
                    e leexponential

                                                                                                                                                                                        Q   uantum computers exploit the principles                  O    ne of the most significant application

                                                      Quantum computing is                                                                                                              of quantum mechanics to process data,
                                                                                                                                                                                        thus exponentially increasing the power
                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                     examples is that of Google, which is using a
                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                     72-qubit processor to develop and upgrade
               and the

                                                                                                                                                                                        of traditional computers. The process in-                    its research and capacity31 (unlike most of
La digitalizzazione

                                                    the utilisation of quantum                                                                                                          volves taking every basic computing building                 the other current projects that are using
Digitalisation

                                                                                                                                                                                        block, currently referred to as a bit with two               4-cubit or less processors). In September,
                                                                                                                                                                                        possible values (0 e 1), and transforming                    Nasa made an announcement - which

                                                      mechanics phenomena                                                                                                               them into qubits with multiple possible
                                                                                                                                                                                        values. The main drawback in terms of
                                                                                                                                                                                        running these new processors is the fact
                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                     they subsequently withdrew - stating that
                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                     Google’s quantum computer would, for the
                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                     first time ever, be able to perform a series

                                                       such as overlap and                                                                                                              that quantum computers have to be kept
                                                                                                                                                                                        in hibernation at a temperature of -273°C.
                                                                                                                                                                                        Their processing power is nevertheless
                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                     of operations that would take our normal
                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                     computers tens of thousands of years to
                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                     complete, in just a few minutes32.

                                                    entanglement to perform a                                                                                                           totally revolutionary.
                                                                                                                                                                                        For this very reason, governments are
                                                                                                                                                                                        investing in Quantum Computing main-
                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                     I
                                                                                                                                                                                                                                    n 2019, the revenue generated by the
                                                                                                                                                                                                                                  enterprise quantum computing market

                                                   mathematical calculation. A
                                                                                                                                                                                                                                  amounted to some 167 million Dollars and
                                                                                                                                                                                        ly for security, scientific and telecom-
                                                                                                                                                                                                                                  this figure is expected to increase to around
                                                                                                                                                                                        munications purposes. The largest
                                                                                                                                                                                                                                  2.2 billion by 202533. Some companies
                                                                                                                                                                                        investors in this technology include Chi-

                                                    quantum computer is used
                                                                                                                                                                                                                                  with more resources at their disposal are
                                                                                                                                                                                        na, the USA and the European Union29.
                                                                                                                                                                                                                                  considering the possibility of purchasing
                                                                                                                                                                                        I t is estimated that by 2023 some 20% of
                                                                                                                                                                                                                                  a quantum computer of their own, but
                                                                                                                                                                                                                                  many others have instead opted for cloud

                                                   to perform such calculation,                                                                                                         all commercial or governmental organisa-
                                                                                                                                                                                        tions will have invested money in Quantum
                                                                                                                                                                                        Computing projects, which is 19% more
                                                                                                                                                                                                                                  access, a solution that will continue to
                                                                                                                                                                                                                                  become more widespread.

                                                    which can be implemented                                                                                                            than in 201830.

                                                                                                                                                                                        Quantum Computer
                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                               572            919          1.394     2.245

                                                      either theoretically or
                                                                                                                                                                                        revenue worldwide
                                                                                                                                                                                        from 2017 to 2025 (in                                 388
                                                                                                                                                                                        million dollars)
                                                                                                                                                                                                                                       260

                                                             physically.                                                                                                               112
                                                                                                                                                                                                               167

                                                        The National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine                                                 39
                                                             Grumbling, Horowitz, National Academies Press, 2019

                                                                                                                                                                      2017           2018                     2019                     2020   2021             2022          2023          2024      2025

                                                                                                                                                                           Source:
                                                                                                                                                                           29: Quantum Computing, Statista, 2019; 30: JPMorgan Years Away From Seeing Quantum-Computing Dividends, The Wall
                                                                                                                                                                           Street Journal, 2019; 31: A Preview of Bristlecone, Google’s New Quantum Processor, Google AI Labs, 2018; 32: Così il
                                                                                                                                                                           computer quantistico di Google esegue calcoli da 10mila anni in 3 minuti, Il Sole 24Ore, 2019; 33: Enterprise Quantum
                                                                                                                                                                           Computing Market to Reach $2.2 Billion by 2025, Tractica, 2018
                                                                                                                                                                           Chart: Enterprise        Quantum Computing Market to Reach $2.2 Billion by 2025, Tractica, 2018

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                                                  Additive                                                                                                                                                                                                    Robotic Automation

                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                      Digitalisation and the exponential technologies
                                                  Manufacturing                                                                                                                                                                                                          and RPA
                                                  N    otwithstanding its growth in popularity,          Additive manufacturing,                                                                               I n 2017 there were 381-thousand indus-             I n 2018, the global Smart Factories mar-
                                                  3D printing still only makes up 0.04% of              also known as 3D printing,                                                                             trial robots in operation worldwide36. By           ket was worth some 142.5 billion Dollars
                                                  global manufacturing and less that 1% of                                                                                                                     2018 this figure had risen to 422-thousand          and it is estimated that by 2026 it will be
                                                                                                       is a process by which three-
                                                  manufacturing in the USA34. As regards the                                                                                                                   and it is estimated that the number of ro-          worth some 260 billion Dollars38. Growth
                                                  global 3D product and services market,
                                                                                                    dimensional physical objects can                                                                           bots supplied to factories around the world         has been very rapid here in Italy too: robot
                                                  estimates indicate that production will           be created directly from a digital                                                                         each year will be around 584-thousand by            installations in 2018 amounted to some
                                                  amount to 15.8 billion Dollars by 2020, 23.9         design file. One of the most                                                                            2022. At the same time, the value of sales          25 a day (9,237 in one year), an increase
                                                  billion by 2022 and 35.6 billion by 202435.       interesting things about additive                                                                          in 2018 peaked at 16.2 billion Dollars.             of 11.5% when compared to 2017. This
                                                                                                                                                                                                               As regards their application, 79% of all            rate of growth is greater than that in China
                                                                                                     manufacturing is that it enables
                                                                                                                                                                                                               the robots installed are industrial robots          (where, for example, robots have replaced
                                                                                                      rapid innovation. Tests can be                                                                           and they are installed above all in China,          25% of human workers in the armaments
                                                                                                     run time and time again and the                                                                           followed by Japan, Germany, the USA and             industry39) and the world as a whole, which
                                                                                                       printed object can be tested                                                                            the Korean Republic. According to current           stands at 1%40.
                                                                                                     during the course of the design                                                              1.400        estimates, by 2025 there will be more than
                                                                                                                                                                                                               4 million robots operating in over 50,000
                                                                                                                process [...].
                                                                                                                                                                                                               warehouses around the world37.
                                                                                                                       US Department of Energy
                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                     Number of Robot in
                                                                                                                                                                                                  1.200
                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                     Industry market for
                                                                                        Innovation (create
                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                     every 10.000 employees
                                                      Product                           new important items)                                                                                                                                                                         • Automotive market
                                                      development                       11,1%                                                                                                     1.000                                                                              • Other markets
                                                      16,1%
                                                                                                             Improved or
                                                                                                             expanded product
                                                                                                             line
       Prototyping                                                                                           4,5%                                                                                  800
       24,5%                                                           Where additive
                                                                       manufacturing is
                                                                                                                    New revenue
                                                                       applied in production                        sources
                                                                                                                    4,8%                                                                           600

                                                               Transformed                                          Develop
                                                               customer                                             customized/                                                                    400
                                                               experience/                Improving                 personalized
                                                               service                    supply chain              products
                                                               4,2%                       sourcing                  8,0%
                                                                                          3,4%
                                                                           Improving                                                                                                               200
                                                                           supply chain
                                                                           logistics

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                                                                    reduction                                                                                                                    Source:
                                                                    9,4%                                                                                                                         36: Top 5 industrial robotics markets, The report report, 2018; 37: Robots expected in 50K warehouses by 2025: report,
                                                                                                                                                                                                 Supply Chain Dive, 2019; 38: Global Smart Factory Market – Industry Trends and Forecast to 2026, Data Bridge, 2019; 39:
       Source:                                                                                                                                                                                   Robots Have Replaced Humans in 25% of China’s Ammunition Factories, Futurism, 2018; 40: Boom di robot nelle industrie
       34: Shaping the future of the Fourth Industrial revolution, Klaus Schwab and Nicholas Davis, Currency, 2018; 35:                                                                          italiane: +11,5%, meglio della Cina, Il Sole 24 ORE, 2019
       Significant 3D Printing Forecast Surges To $35.6 Billion, Forbes, 2019                                                                                                                    Chart: 1 next page: Size of the global market for collaborative robots from 2017 to 2025 (in million U.S. dollars),
       Chart: Shaping                                 the future of the Fourth Industrial revolution, Klaus Schwab and Nicholas Davis, Currency, 2018                                            Statista, 2019; 2: IFR International Federation of Robotics;

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                                                                                                                           Proprietà
                                                                                                                                        dell’azienda
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                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                          200%

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                                                      RPA technology involves the use                                                                                                                    3  .24% of all the existing industrial robots         A
                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                              utomation enables companies to re-
                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                           180%

                                                       of robot software that enables
                                                    10.000                                                                                                                                               are collaborative robots, also known as duce production costs and improve product
                                                                                                                                                                                                         cobots, and this figure is increasing at a quality, thereby increasing competitiveness
                                                                                                                                                                                                         rate of 23% per year41.                         and creating additional demand for jobs in

                                                      robots to imitate human workers.                                                                                                                   Cobots enable humans to avoid having
                                                                                                                                                                                                         to perform dangerous, repetitive physical
                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                         those companies or Countries that invest in
                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                         this technology, to the detriment of those
                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                         that do not.
                                                                                                                                                                                                         tasks by working side by side with the cobots

                                                                   RPA robots are able to                                                                                                                in a collaborative manner. It is estimated It’s no coincidence that South Korea, which            160%
                                                                                                                                                                                                         that this collaboration between humans has the highest rate of robotic automation in
7.500
                                                                                                                                                                                                         and robots increases productivity by 85%42. the world in its factories, was able to over-

                                                                 access applications, input                                                                                                              I                                               come the crisis by increasing productivity
                                                                                                                                                                                                           n 2018 some 60-thousand cobots were and notably improving its trade balance.
                                                                                                                                                                                                         sold worldwide and it is thought that this

                                                                 data, perform calculations,                                                                                                             figure could increase to 735-thousand by              R
                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                             PA (Robotic Process Automation) è              140%
                                                                                                                                                                                                         202543.This market is currently worth 1,424 consists of software that performs control,
                                                                                                                                                                                                         million Dollars and it is forecast that it will monitoring and data transfer functions. This
                                                                  perform actions and then                                                                                                               be worth some 12,825 million Dollars by market grew by more than 63% in 2018
                                                                                                                                                                                                         202544.                                         with sales amounting to 846 million Dol-

                                                                   disconnect themselves.
5.000                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                    lars, making this the fastest growing sector
                                                                                                                                                                                                         H    ere in Italy, the number of cobots in use of the global corporate software market.
                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                            120%
                                                                                                                                                                                                         continues to rise and this favours corporate Estimates indicate that this figure is set
                                                                                                                                                                                                         reshoring (the return of companies that to rise to 1.3 billion Dollars this year and

                                                      Professionals currently subdivide                                                                                                                  had previously relocated their production that it will reach 5 billion Dollars by 202246.
                                                                                                                                                                                                         facilities to other Countries) and encourages
                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                               I
                                                                                                                                                                                                         other companies to keep their production n recent years, Robotics as a service sys-

2.500
                                                       the RPA technologies into three                                                                                                 100%
                                                                                                                                                                                                         facilities in this Country by cutting their tems that favour access by smaller producers
                                                                                                                                                                                                         labour costs45.                                 to RPA technology appear to have gained            100%

                                                          macro-categories, namely                                                                                                                       Index of average
                                                                                                                                                                                                         robot prices and labor
                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                         ground. For example, Kuka, together with MHP
                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                         and Munich Re have launched the concept
                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                         of the Smart Factory as a service, combining

                                                      probots, knowbots and chatbots.                                                                                                                    compensation in
                                                                                                                                                                                                         manufacturing in USA
                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                         software integration, automation, systems
                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                         engineering and risk and financial manage-

                                                                                                                                                                                       ROBO
                                                                                     IoT Agenda, 2019
                                                                                                                                                                                                         (1990 = 100%)                                   ment capabilities with a potential reduction

                                                                                                                                                                                           T PRI
                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                         of up to 30% in time-to-market delays47.           80%
834                                                          1.424   2.075   3.300        5.385         7.523                 9.519                   11.523                12.825          CES
2017                                                         2018    2019    2020         2021          2022                  2023                    2024                  2025
                                                                                                                                                                                     1990                         1995                                  2000        2005                           2010
                                                                                                                  Global cobots market                                                      Source:
                                                                                                                                                                                            41: Robot industriali, investiti 16,5 miliardi di dollari nel 2018, Key4biz, 2019; 42: In-depth: Industry 4.0 2019,
                                                                                                                  size from 2017 to 2025                                                    Statista Digital Market Outlook, In-depth: Industry, 2019; 43: Projected sales of collaborative robots worldwide from
                                                                                                                                                                                            2018 to 2025 (in 1,000 units), Statista, 2019; 44: Size of the global market for collaborative robots from 2017 to 2025
                                                                                                                  (in million dollars)                                                      (in million U.S. dollars), Statista, 2019; 45: Cosa sono i cobot, i “colleghi” delle fabbriche del futuro, Wired, 2018;
                                                                                                                                                                                            46: Robotic Process Automation Market - Global Forecast to 2022, Research and markets, 2017; 47: L’industria 4.0 è il                                               60%
                                                                                                                                                                                            presente, Bureau Veritas, 2019
                                                                                                                                                                                            Chart:Economist intelligence unit; IMB: Institut für Arbeitsmarkt-und Berufsforschung: International Robot Federation;
                                                                                                                                                                                            US Social Data; McKinsey Analysis

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2019       0,05
Digitalisation and the exponential technologies
                                                  5G

                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                               Digitalisation and the exponential technologies
                                                                                                                           Forecast number                                         2020       0,13
                                                                                                                           of 5G connections
                                                                                                                           worldwide from 2019                                     2021       0,35

                                                  Technology                                                               to 2025 (in billions) →                                 2022       0,81

                                                  5  G differs particularly from the previous       T   he implementation of 5G will result                                                                               5G is a fifth
                                                  mobile phone technologies in that it involves a   in differences as regards the number of

                                                                                                                                                                                                                      generation mobile
                                                                                                                                                                                   2023        1,4
                                                  much more widespread network of antennae          users: more than 40% will come from
                                                  that enable much faster connection speeds         China51. Europe will generate up to 35%
                                                  and make it possible to interact over greater     of revenue from fifth generation connec-
                                                  distances without any latency. It is believed
                                                  that this technology will enable connected IoT
                                                  objects to really take off in the marketplace.
                                                                                                    tions while the USA will have the largest
                                                                                                    slice, amounting to 44%, particularly in
                                                                                                                                                                                                                      phone technology.
                                                                                                                                                                                                                       It is designed to
                                                                                                    the manufacturing, retail and energy sec-

                                                  T   he most attractive aspects of 5G, when
                                                                                                    tors52.

                                                  compared to its predecessors, are as follows48: In terms of licensing and installation costs,

                                                  more data
                                                                                                  the Italian operators alone will be obliged
                                                  • It is faster and therefore able to transfer to spend around 25 billion Euro by 2025.                                           2024         2
                                                                                                                                                                                                                     increase the speed,
                                                                                                  On the other hand, this will provide returns
                                                  • Less delay due to latency, which makes it amounting to around 0.3% of annual GDP
                                                  more reactive                                   for 15 years as from 2020, or in other words                                                                       reduce latency and
                                                  • More devices can be connected simulta- around 6 billion Euro per year53.
                                                  neously (sensors and IoT devices)            The use of 5G will give rise to certain inno-                                                                       improve the flexibility
                                                  F                                            vative services that have not been feasible

                                                                                                                                                                                                                    of wireless services.
                                                      rom 2019 to 2025, the 5G market is set until now and will extend the advanced use
                                                  to be a major player with a sustained global of the Internet to include the SMEs that
                                                  growth rate of 111%, going from 131 billion have thus far been excluded due to lack
                                                  Dollars up to 277 billion49.
                                                  Global forecasts indicate that the number of
                                                                                               of network coverage.

                                                                                                    T  he first areas that will be able to benefit
                                                                                                                                                                                                                      5G technology has
                                                  connections will reach 2.7 billion by 202550.

                                                  T  here will essentially be 4 drivers of this
                                                                                                    from this technology are those of industrial
                                                                                                    robotics and above all that of logistics. With                                                                    a theoretical peak
                                                  growth:                                           5G, companies will be able to make their
                                                  1. The demand for ultra broadband con-
                                                  nections via Mobile, which will increase
                                                                                                    production lines that are currently linked via
                                                                                                    Ethernet connections become “wireless”.
                                                                                                                                                                                   2025        2,7                  velocity of 20 Gbps,
                                                                                                    Furthermore, the robots and machinery

                                                                                                                                                                                                                      whereas the peak
                                                  progressively
                                                                                                    connected via a 5G network will be able
                                                  2. The increasing use of smartphones and
                                                  wearable devices                                  to make sense of their surrounding envi-
                                                                                                    ronment using sensors, provide real-time
                                                  3. The ever-increasing use of video via mo-
                                                  bile phones
                                                                                                    data and be subjected to more efficient
                                                                                                    remote maintenance.
                                                                                                                                                                                                                    velocity of 4G is only
                                                  4.  Increasing government investment in
                                                  digitalisation, particularly in Asia and the Within the corporate environment, 5G will
                                                  United States and specifically aimed at enable the simultaneous management of
                                                  driving the development of new networks. large numbers of objects.
                                                                                                                                                                                                                             1 Gbps.
                                                                                                                                                                                                                                               CISCO, 2019
       Source:
       48: 5G Caratteristiche, Velocità, è Pericoloso per la Salute? Quando Arriva in Italia?, Economia Italia, 2019; 49:
       Mercato 5G: crescerà del 111% fino al 2025 e varrà 277 miliardi di dollari, Digital 360, 2019; 50: Forecast number of 5G
       connections worldwide from 2019 to 2025 (in billions), Statista, 2019; 51: CCS Insight Predicts 1 Billion Users of 5G by
       2023, with More Than Half in China, CCS Insight, 2019; 52: Mercato 5G: crescerà del 111% fino al 2025 e varrà 277 miliardi                                                  Chart: Forecast       number of 5G connections worldwide from 2019 to 2025 (in billions), Statista, 2019
       di dollari, Network Digital 360, 2019; 53: Il nuovo ordine mondiale creato dalla guerra del 5G, Agi economia, 2019

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                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                        Nanotechnologies

                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                               Digitalisation and the exponential technologies
                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                        & Biotechnologies
                                                            Nanotechnology is a term                                                                                                                N   anotechnologies are contributing                    B   iotechnology is the field of biology that
                                                                                                                                                                                                    towards drastically improving and even                  utilises processes, organisms or living

                                                          used to describe those areas                                                                                                              revolutionising many technological and
                                                                                                                                                                                                    industrial sectors, including information
                                                                                                                                                                                                    technology, national security, medicine,
                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                            systems to create products and technol-
                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                            ogies aimed at improving the quality of
                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                            human life55.

                                                           of science and engineering                                                                                                               transportation, energy provision, foodstuff
                                                                                                                                                                                                    safety and the environmental sciences.                  D    epending on the kind of technology, the
                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                            tools used and the applications involved,
                                                                                                                                                                                                    In the IT and electronics field, nanotech-

                                                            in which the nanometric-                                                                                                                nologies are contributing to the creation
                                                                                                                                                                                                    of faster, smaller and more portable sys-
                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                            biotechnology may overlap with various oth-
                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                            er fields, such as molecular biology, bionics,
                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                            bioengineering, genetic engineering and
                                                                                                                                                                                                    tems capable of processing and archiving

                                                          scale events (a nanometre is                                                                                                              ever-increasing quantities of information.

                                                                                                                                                                                                    T  he global nanotechnology market is
                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                            even nanotechnology. Practical examples
                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                            of the utilisation of this technology include
                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                            the following: the production of medical

                                                          equivalent to one billionth of                                                                                                            expected to be worth 90.5 billion Dollars
                                                                                                                                                                                                    by 2021, with a compound growth rate of
                                                                                                                                                                                                    18.2% from 2016 to 202154.
                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                            devices, pharmaceutical products, agricul-
                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                            tural chemical products and raw materials,
                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                            bio fuels and research and development

                                                          a metre) that occur are used
                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                            carried out in medical laboratories.

                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                            I n 2017 the worldwide biotechnology market                                  741,7

                                                            in the design, production
                                                                                                                                                                         75,8                                                                               was worth around 390 billion Dollars, with
                                                                                                                                                                                                    Global biotechnology                                    an estimated growth of 90% by 2024, when
                                                                                                                                                                                                    market by region, 2015-                                 it will be worth some 742 billion56.
                                                                                                                                                                                                    2026 (in billion dollars)

                                                          and application of materials,
                                                                                                                                                    64,2
                                                                                                                                                                                                    • Middle West and Africa
                                                                                                                                                                                                        Latin America
                                                                                                                                                                                                        Asia Pacific

                                                         structures, devices & systems.                                    48,9
                                                                                                                                                                                                        Europe
                                                                                                                                                                                                        North America

                                                                          Nanotechnologies, European Union
                                                                                                                                                                                                          390,4

                                                                                       26              27
                                                                        22,9
                                                          20,1   20,7                                        Global nanotechnology
                                                                                                             market, 2010-2020                                                         Source:
15,7                                                                                                                                                                                   54: The Maturing Nanotechnology Market: Products and Applications Bcc Research, 2016; 55: Biotechnology, TechTarget,
                                                                                                             (in billion dollars)                                                      2019; 56: Biotechnology Market Share, Size, Trends & Industry Analysis Report By Technology: Segment Forecast, 2019 -
                                                                                                                                                                                       2026, Polaris Market Research, 2019
                                                                                                                                                                                       Chart:1 next page: BCC Research, 2010, 2012, 2014 and 2015; Research and Markets, 2015; 2: Biotechnology Market Share,
                                                                                                                                                                                       Size, Trends & Industry Analysis Report By Technology: Segment Forecast, 2019 - 2026, Polaris Market Research, 2019

2010                                                      2011   2012   2013          2014            2015                   2017                    2019                2020   2015    2016              2017              2018              2019   2020   2021       2022       2023       2024       2025                            2026

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                                                                                                                                                                                                       The concept of Smart Company
The concept of                                                                        Everything is becoming lighter, faster,
                                                                                      difficult to possess and impossible to
                                                                                      control: products are turning into services
                                                                                      and services into ecosystems, platforms
                                                                                            and shared protocols supported by
                                                                                               automation. The value of intangible
                                                                                                  elements such as skills,
                                                                                                     emotions and information is
                                                                                                     increasing while the role of
                                                                                                     tangible elements is declining.
                                                                                                                                    The Ghost Company

                                                                                                                                                        S   mart Companies are companies that
                                                                                                                                                        utilise the exponential technologies to re-
                                                                                                                                                        invent their business models.

                                                                                                                                                        A   business model describes the way in
                                                                                                                                                        which an organisation creates, distributes
                                                                                                                                                        and gathers value. In other words, it is a
                                                                                                                                                        combination of organisational and strategic
                                                                                                                                                        solutions by which the enterprise obtains
                                                                                                                                                        a competitive advantage57.

                                                                                                                                                        T   he impact of the exponential technol-
                                                                                                                                                        ogies forces a change in the competitive
                                                                                                                                                        paradigm, revolutionising the way in which
                                                                                                                                                        goods and services are produced or provid-
                                                                                                                                                        ed. Innovation is an ongoing process and
                                                                                                                                                        is an integral part of the company

                                                                                                                                                        U  nlike traditional companies whose sole
                                                                                                                                                        objective is revenue, smart companies of-
                                                                                                                                                        ten have other objectives that can take
                                                                                                                                                        precedence over revenue.

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The concept of Smart Company

                                                                                                             High levels of market
                               T    hese companies often become monopo-
                               listic in nature and offer innovative services                                 value per employee
                               that have a major impact on the market and
                                                                                                                                 pg.38
                               the community, largely due to hyper-produc-
                               tivity and its effect on employment. Notwith-
                               standing the hyper-productivity, the number
                               of employees in these companies continues
                               to increase, as does their market value per
                                                                                Continuous
                               employee. In order to continue prospering
                               over time, these companies have to place
                               a high priority on integrating with the com-
                                                                                innovation
                               munity in which they operate and they need           pg.36-37
                               to be able to react quickly to change and
                               adapt their internal organisation, favouring
                               ease of delegation and reskilling, as well
                               as personal and environmental wellbeing.

                               I                                                                                            More
                                 n addition to the utilisation of exponential
                                                                                               Sustained
                               technologies, the following characteristics
                               are also features of a smart company: →                                                    efficient      Humal-less
                               The more elements the company is able to                         growth
                               control, the smarter it is.
                                                                                                  pg.44-48               processes       processes
                                                                                                                            pg.50-51
                                                                                                                                            pg.52-53

                      Limited                                                   Revenue per
                    owned assets                                                 employee           Brand purpose                         Social
                                                                                                              pg.54-55
                                           pg.49                                    pg.39-43
                                                                                                                                          Value
                                                                                                                                           pg.56-58
The concept of Smart Company

                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                     The concept of Smart Company
                               Continuous
                               innovation
                               I n order to generate continuous innovation        S
                                                                                 mart Companies promote constant inno-                                                        G   enerally speaking, this is where the Ven-     to do this, they will be relying on the digital
                               (both digital and business) it is essential tovation. Unlike traditional companies that only                                                   ture Capitalists come into the process and the    skills of sixty-odd Founders Factory experts
                               create a culture of innovation that is supported
                                                                             look inwards and practice closed innovation,                                                     clients themselves act as co-innovators rather    who will oversee the development64.
                               by management, widespread amongst all         smart companies look both in-house and                                                           than passive receivers: developing a better
                               employees and in line with the corporate      outside the company in order to increase                                                         business model is more important than being       M icrosoft for Start-ups is a tool designed to
                               mission and values. Continuous innovation     their technological capabilities and they in-                                                    top-dog in the market. Examples of this includehelp companies keep up to date with the new
                               causes employees to become active par-        terface with new partners such as start-ups,                                                     IBM’s InnovationJam and InnoCentive’s Open     frontiers in innovation and the latest techni-
                               ticipants in the transformation process and   universities and research centres, adopting                                                      Innovation Marketplace.                        cal advances, but was mainly developed to
                               increases their feeling of empowerment.       the principles of Open Innovation or Open                                                                                                       provide tangible assistance to established
                               Hackathon, Boards of Innovation, loyalty
                                                                             Integration in order to exchange and access                                                      O    ne of the first and biggest successes of companies that are developing a product
                                                                             both internal and external know-how.                                                             Open Innovation dates back to 2005 when that Microsoft could help to launch65.
                               systems and recognition for the best or worst
                                                                                                                                                                              Apple bought out FingerWorks, a start-up
                               innovation are just some of the many devices
                               that can be used to encourage continuous
                                                                               Open Innovation is a paradigm that                                                                                                               I
                                                                                                                                                                              that produced multi-touch trackpads and n Italy, less than 30% of companies have
                                                                               assumes that firms can and should                                                              keyboards. Apple had been able to grasp the adopted Open Innovation and those that have
                               innovation within the company58.
                                                                                   use external ideas as well as internal                                                     potential of multi-touch technology well ahead are mainly involved in the business of investing
                               F   ailing to keep pace with innovation has
                               certain repercussions. A shining example:
                                                                                  ideas, and internal as well as external
                                                                                   paths to market, as the firms look to
                                                                                                                                                                              of everyone else and thus managed to integrate in and acquiring start-ups . Although this per-
                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                        66

                                                                                                                                                                              this technology into their iPhones and laptop centages rises significantly if we only consider
                               in 2009, with the aim of countering the ad-              advance their technology                                                              trackpads. Wayne Westerman, co-founder the large companies, it is nevertheless below
                                                                                                                                                                                                                             the international average (70% as against
                               vance of Google and Apple, Nokia spent 8.1                                                                                                     of the start-up, then became a distinguished
                                                                                       Henry Chesbrough, American Economist                                                                                                  80%)67. In 2018 some 7,635 companies made
                               billion Dollars on the acquisition of Navteq,                                                                                                  engineer and Multi-Touch architect at Apple.
                               a market leader in the field of GPS and ve-
                               hicle tracking systems. At about that time,
                                                                                  O    pen Innovation is a business model that
                                                                                                                                                                              Since then, there have been numerous other
                                                                                                                                                                              recorded examples.
                                                                                                                                                                                                                             investments in this area and Corporate Venture
                                                                                                                                                                                                                             Capital investments alone account for around
                                                                                  encourages the connection of the business                                                                                                  1.2 billion Euro of the total68.
                               in Israel, Waze was born. Waze utilises a
                               technology that exploits the GPS systems
                               built-in to users’ mobile phones. Within
                                                                                  to external sources so as to be able to tap
                                                                                  into new start-ups and product opportunities,
                                                                                                                                                                              F  or example, Samsung has adopted Open
                                                                                                                                                                                                                                I talian companies that are active in this area
                                                                                                                                                                              Innovation with the aim of developing its own     include Ansaldo, mainly in the area of digital
                               two years, Waze had the same number of             have a team with a broader range of skills
                                                                                                                                                                              external innovation strengths via the Samsung     transformation and development of robotic
                               operational sensors as Navtec and within           and collaborate with other organisations to
                                                                                                                                                                              Accelerator programme. The company is now         systems for the maintenance and inspection
                               four years they had increased that number          generate a level of innovation that would not
                                                                                                                                                                              attempting to come up with new discoveries        of their own products, as well as the Miroglio
                               tenfold, and best of all, every additional         be achievable solely with in-house resources.
                                                                                                                                                                              both within and outside the organisation by       Group as regards Internal innovation and
                               “sensor” came at no cost. Unlike Navtec,           To date, around 80% of the large multination-                                               funding 500 new start-ups, 200 internal and       Corporate Entrepreneurship, and Novartis,
                               Waze’s software updates were immediate.
                                                                                  als have adopted Open Innovation practices60.                                               300 external63.                                   which promotes and funds projects via their
                               By 2012, Nokia’s market value had dropped
                                                                                  This notwithstanding, 54% of companies                                                                                                        BioUpper training and acceleration platform69.
                               from 140 billion down to 8.2 billion, which                                                                                                    L’Oréal, instead, is focusing on start-ups in
                                                                                  that make use of Open Innovation struggle
                               was virtually what the company had paid                                                                                                        the beauty-tech field with the aid of Found-      Since 2016, via their “growITup” programme
                                                                                  to bridge the gap between their business
                               for Navtec just three years earlier.                                                                                                           ers Factory, the London-based, multi-sector       and in collaboration with Microsoft, the Fon-
                                                                                  strategy and their innovation strategy61: this
                               In June 2013 Waze was bought out by Goo-                                                                                                       business incubator and accelerator. The com-      dazione Cariplo has staked it all on combining
                                                                                  happens because the ability to innovate is
                               gle for 1.1 billion Dollars: the company only                                                                                                  pany’s aim is to select those start-ups that      “made in Italy” skills and expertise with the
                                                                                  not enough in itself, so it’s also essential to
                               had around a hundred employees, but had                                                                                                        could potentially benefit from the L’Oreal’s      dynamic innovation and progress that is so
                                                                                  have clear medium-long term objectives
                               fifty million users or, in other words, human                                                                                                  scientific know-how and media coverage and        typical of start-ups.
                                                                                  and the ability to generate value for all the
                                                                                                                                                                 Source:
                               traffic sensors59.                                 parties involved62.                                                            63: Samsung expands startup program for innovation, The Investor, 2019; 64: Open innovation, L’Oréal punta su cinque
                                                                                                                                                                 startup del beauty-tech, EconomyUp, 2017; 65: Cos’è Microsoft for Startup spiegato da Microsoft, StartupItalia, 2018;
    Source:                                                                                                                                                      66: Open innovation in Italia? Una realtà per i Big ma faticano le medie imprese, Il Sole 24 ORE, 2019; 67: Aziende e
    58: Building An Enterprise Culture Of Continuous Innovation, Forbes, 2018; 59: Exponential Organizations, Salim Ismail,                                      innovazione: l’Open Innovation si evolve, è il momento dell’Open Integration, EconomyUp, 2019; 68: Startup a ruba anche
    2014; 60: Aziende e innovazione: l’Open Innovation si evolve, è il momento dell’Open Integration, EconomyUp, 2019; 61:                                       nelle PMI, vince il modello open innovation, Digital 360, 2018; 69: Terzo Osservatorio Open Innovation e Corporate
    Innovation Benchmark 2017, PwC, 2018                                                                                                                         Venture Capital, Assolombarda, Italia Startup e SMAU, 2019

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