Emilio Bartezzaghi

Politecnico di Milano | Polimi · Department of Management, Economics and Industrial Engineering DIG

1) Il ritorno di interesse per la sociotecnica e per il suo aggiornamento 2) Motivi che hanno portato a un calo di interesse verso la sociotecnica dopo gli anni sessanta e settanta 3) Progettazione socio-tecnica 4.0 4) L’esempio dei cobot

A vibrant debate has emerged on the opportunities of digitalization for ‘humanizing’ work versus substitution or deskilling effects. Recognizing the processes of designing digitalized organizations as crucial for predicting the outcome of digitalization on workers and labor, extant research has developed an evolutionary ecosystem socio-technical (S...

The paper discusses direct participation and its relationships with institutionalised forms of participation, from representative to economic participation. There is a plurality of practices of direct participation, which must be distinguished from mere managerial involvement. The evolution of participation, the prevalence of one type of participat...

Science and Technology Parks (STPs) are key elements of the infrastructure supporting the growth of today's global knowledge economy. STPs create environments that foster collaboration, innovation, and entrepreneurship, and provide innovation services to support new technology-based firms in their activities. However, despite the extensive research...

Contributo in F. Butera “Cosa vuol dire progettare (e realizzare) insieme: commenti al discorso di Renzo Piano all’inaugurazione del Ponte San Giorgio”

The adoption of 4.0 technologies for many companies implies the activation of organizational redesign processes. To reflect the changing nature of work and design practices when faced by new technology, the socio-technical systems theory has proposed a set of design principles to guide system design capable of ensuring the joint optimization of org...

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L’adozione delle tecnologie 4.0 comporta, per molte imprese, l’attivazione di processi di riprogettazione dell’organizzazione. Su questo tema, la teoria dei sistemi sociotecnici ha proposto alcuni principi di progettazione, volti a massimizzare le prestazioni organizzative e al contempo a preservare o sviluppare la qualità del lavoro degli operator...

Di fronte ai processi di trasformazione digitale non è sufficiente limitarsi a delineare in termini previsionali i possibili impatti delle tecnologie, ma è necessario entrare nel merito dei percorsi di cambiamento, per individuare le modalità opportune per orientarli e accompagnarli, secondo obiettivi di efficacia ed efficienza e allo stesso tempo...

Purpose The purpose of this paper is to provide evidence on how smart manufacturing (SM) affects work organization at both micro-level – i.e. work design, described in terms of operator job breadth and autonomy, cognitive demand and social interaction – and at macro-level – i.e. organizational structure, described in terms of centralization of deci...

1. Innovazione tecnologica, produttività e inclusione 2 Tecnologie abilitanti, modelli di business e strategie di impresa 3 Tecnologia digitale e organizzazione 4. Innovazione organizzativa come prerequisito dell’innovazione tecnologica 5. Territorio, reti, ecosistemi 6. Progettare il cambiamento: temi sensibili per l’elaborazione delle politi...

Introduzione al libro di Campagna, Pero, Ponzellini. Temi trattati: Le sfide per le imprese italiane. La capacità di risposta basata su due capisaldi: il ruolo centrale del modello di organizzazione adottato dall’impresa; la visione e gli approcci operativi all'innovazione organizzativa e a quella tecnologica. Organizzazione e qualità del capitale...

Vengono analizzati e discussi i risultati del lavoro del Laboratorio CISL basati sull'analisi di una ventina di casi industriali relativi all'introduzione di tecnologie abilitanti I4.0

The chapter presents a professional profile of Gianluca Spina, summarizing his contribution to both research and management education. Gianluca’s research journey started in the field of manufacturing strategy, focusing on JIT first and then on innovative manufacturing paradigms. Subsequently he extended his interests to customer-supplier partnersh...

The book is a ‘Liber Amicorum’ for the late Gianluca Spina, Professor at Politecnico di Milano, Italy, who was well-known and respected in the European Operations Management research community. It consists of reprints of 7 of his most important cited and representative papers, spanning his research career from the early 90s and presenting his resea...

This work aims at providing evidence of the impact of project management training programs. The research focuses on the impact of training effectiveness (higher learning) on the project managers' competencies (applied behaviors). Data have been collected within PMP-Project Management Program: a corporate training program developed and delivered thr...

Prefazione al libro di Nicola Palmarini. Temi affrontati: collaborazione e modelli organizzativi; social media e collaborazione di massa; collaborazione e auto-organizzazione; sostenibilità dei nuovi modelli

Spare parts management is a rather complex issue. One of the reasons of its complexity is the lumpy pattern of the demand that spare parts frequently present. Several methods have been proposed to cope with this particular kind of problem and improvements have been proved compared to classical forecasting techniques. Literature has however devoted...

Postfazione al libro di Detoni, Comello, Ioan. Temi trattati: Il dibattito sui nuovi modelli organizzativi e la necessità di un nuovo paradigma per le organizzazioni. L'auto-organizzazione ovvero i principi della nuova organizzazione. Le gerarchie sono ineluttabili? Possono le organizzazioni finalizzate essere auto-organizzazioni? L'auto-organizzaz...

Corporate universities have emerged as a mechanism for providing companies with a wide variety of training and development activities. They are a recent but under‐researched phenomenon, and given their substantial budgets, it might be expected that they would wish to evaluate what they do. The authors explore the evaluation practices of six Italian...

L’evoluzione delle organizzazioni ha portato al centro dell’attenzione i temi della gestione per processi, della gestione dei progetti, della conoscenza organizzativa e della gestione delle risorse umane. Si tratta di temi cruciali sia per chi si trova a progettare o a gestire le moderne organizzazioni, sia per chi svolge le proprie attività tecnic...

- Over the past few years literature on program evaluation has been studying multistakeholder evaluation, but training evaluation models and practices still do not seem aware of this problem. The present study identifies intersections between methodologies and approaches of participatory evaluation and typical techniques and evaluation tools used f...

Come impostare un sistema di valutazione della formazione continua in azienda orientato ai fabbisogni degli stakeholder? Quali passi e strumenti operativi utilizzare? E quali sono gli stakeholder tipicamente coinvolti in un processo formativo? Il volume si propone di rispondere a queste domande, presentando i risultati di un percorso di ricerca emp...

More and more companies are leveraging Internet technologies in order to improve their business processes. A particular process strongly influenced by the Internet is the sourcing process, including requirements definition, suppliers scouting and qualification, request for bid, and final negotiation and selection. A number of B2B operators have sta...

By improving the procurement process purchasing departments are becoming more and more strategic in order to increase overall companies performances. In the last years, web-based tools have effectively supported this trend by offering to buyers useful tools in order to help their activities. Purchasing departments have now to choose the right tool...

Industrial relationships among companies within the supply chain and procurement processes are changing to cope with new threats and opportunities arising from Internet technologies. The adoption of Web-based tools in the procurement process allows firms to either reduce transaction costs or improve internal procurement process efficiency, or even...

Most studies on inventory management under demand uncertainty analyse the detrimental impacts of demand variability (i.e., its coefficient of variation). Consequences of the shape of demand distribution (i.e., its multi-modality and asymmetry) have instead received only minor attention. This paper focuses on the study of the effects of the shape of...

Managing uncertainty when the demand is irregular and sporadic (i.e. “lumpy”) is a complex issue as well as an unexplored one. This study analyses the behaviour of forecasting techniques when dealing with lumpy demand at the master production scheduling level. In particular, three forecasting techniques (exponentially weighted moving average, early...

The evolution of production models raises a number of questions on the changes which are taking place, on the continuity of or break with consolidated models, and on whether new production paradigms are emerging. Traces back this broad and multi-faceted debate to five theses which summarise the principal interpretative approaches: the emergence of...

This contribution defines a new manufacturing paradigm and investigates its adoption and performance within the assembly industry on a global basis. The paradigm is based on a set of basic principles for designing and managing production systems that discard the traditional way of organising manufacturing activities and apply across companies that...

Since the beginning of the 1990s, both global and country-specific trends have put pressure on the Italian economy, the fifth or sixth largest in the world. The process of the internationalisation of the economy and integration into Europe, though jerkily in progress, presents challenges to the industrial sector, the first to feel the impact of the...

Many post-Fordist experiences seem nowadays to converge on an emerging manufacturing paradigm that the authors have named strategically flexible production (SFP). The process of diffusion and assimilation of SFP is influenced by extra-firm factors and country-specific conditions. Explores the role of regional infrastructures and services to support...

In an age of discontinuity, one of the few sources of sustainable competitive advantage remains in the ability of companies to innovate their products effectively. As innovative processes for products become more frequent and strategically relevant, long-term competitiveness compels firms to exploit synergy and learning among projects. In fact, mas...

Defines a new manufacturing paradigm and investigates its adoption and performances, within the assembly industry on a global basis. The definition of the paradigm is based on a set of basic principles to design and manage production systems which discard the traditional way of organizing manufacturing activities, and pool companies which pursue di...

Most techniques for managing demand uncertainty require a certain degree of stability in the environment, since they are completely or partially based on the observation of historical data. When applied to a context characterized by irregular and sporadic demand these techniques show poor performances. In fact, in such a case uncertainty management...

The use of commonality is widely diffused as a criterion to reduce uncertainty in demand forecasts for the master production schedule (MPS). Nevertheless, studies have mostly focused on exploiting component commonality in make to stock and assemble to order manufacturing. This paper refers to planning environments with two specific characteristics....

In recent years, time-based competition (TBC) has drawn the attention of several practitioners and academicians. Much evidence has been put forward from case studies in order to show the benefits that derive from time compression. Nevertheless, there is a lack of conceptual models and operating tools to support lead-time reduction. Provides a conce...

Gives results of a survey on the application of the just-in-time (JIT) approach in Italy, based on a sample of 173 industrial companies. The methodological framework used to evaluate JIT application was described in a previous article (International Journal of Operations & Production Management, Vol. 9 No. 8, 1989). Interest in JIT is wide and is g...

Part of a research programme being undertaken in Italy on the applicability of the just-in-time (JIT) approach. The programme includes both the development of methodological concepts to evaluate JIT applicability and an extensive survey of the value of JIT implementation as seen by Italian industry. Two levels of performances are identified: o Firs...

Results are presented of a pilot study dealing with the interaction between computers, management, and organization structures: a study carried out to explore the computerization phenomenon in a small sample of manufacturing firms. A short survey of the literature introduces the perspectives and objectives of the field study. Two main research outc...

This paper deals with the classical plant location problem, by introducing a new algorithm based on a ranking procedure of all the possible combinations of plant locations. The ranking is obtained by introducing a properly defined search tree and by exploiting its structural properties, so that the algorithm suitably combines a search procedure on...

The diagnosis and evaluation of the failures and the problems of computer-based information systems suggest the need for a review and a reframing of current design techniques. This system presents a new method based on socio-technical approach, which covers the early stages of information system analysis and design. The suggested method has been di...

This paper focuses on the analysis of the impacts of project management corporate training programs. This work aims at providing evidence regarding the impact of project management training programs by analyzing three layers at which training can be evaluated: i) perceived quality, ii) knowledge and iii) applied competences. Data has been collected...