In order to introduce innovation within the company, it is first of all necessary to know the technological infrastructure that we have. It is important and accompanies the evolution of information systems and for this evolution to occur, technologies must be taken into account.
Innovation
60s / 70s
Systems adopted: operations management systems.
Location: in house1/in services.
Technology: Mainframe2
Companies are in the midst of industrial development, with the world economy having recovered from the war and businesses growing dramatically. However, this does not happen everywhere, but in a limited number of industrialized countries. L'Italy, in the adoption of information technologies (not in their design, as Olivetti demonstrates), was a little behind other countries.
80s / 90s
Adopted systems: business management systems.
Location: in-house.
Technology: on workstations in LAN, VPN in rare cases, star networks
Companies in development, but the first oil crisis appears: it is a wake-up call, but it is seen as a transitory phase. The oil crisis is an obstacle to economic growth and leaves the situation with very high instability: in many countries there is very high inflation, the currency is devalued and energy and labor costs increase. It was in this period that the idea of โโdeveloping in regions where labor was cheap grew. This changes things significantly: in Italy in those years there was a strategic change in the companies driving development, which until now had focused on the production of low-cost products. Therefore, companies emerge that qualify for the excellence of the quality of their work (textile, fashion, mechanics, chemistry). In various sectors, โMade in Italyโ becomes synonymous with quality. But the development of giants such as Russia, India and China leads to situations not foreseen by known economic models: consumption quadruples and these countries find themselves in situations never experienced before.
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