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#13 Conscious project
Formerly professor at Cambridge and currently Full Professor of Contemporary European History at the University of Florence, the historian Paul Ginsborg is an important point of reference for the world of socially committed voluntary and charitable organisations. It's a world that includes a vast number of persons who all feel the need to actively ...
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Feb 07, 2010 | Categories: Experiences | Tags: 911, blair, book, business, consumer, consumption, corporations, economic, economy, family, fiat, financial, florence, historian, internet | Leave A Comment »
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#7 Chaos
There’s a lot of talk going around about order and disorder, and there’s a common opinion that the two concepts are diametrically opposed to each other.
But nature is not at all that “orderly”. The laws of thermodynamics clearly tell us that disorder is growing everywhere in the universe. And if we look at any business enterprise, we can...
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Feb 02, 2010 | Categories: Experiences | Tags: business, corporate, disorder, economic, efficiency, enterprise, gain, laws, methods, nature, opinion, organisation, performance, standards, universe | Leave A Comment »
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#5 The Dictatorship of the Consumption
Swarovski, 14,000 employees, revenue 1.67 billion euro, but also 800 events organised every year in Italy alone. Not only an economic organism, but also a conveyor of culture.
How does it feel today to be defined as a multinational company? Proud or flattered?
Uneasy. In any case, it’s a word that has been outdated by what is now called globa...
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Dec 22, 2009 | Categories: Experiences | Tags: awareness, beauty, company, cost, cost of life, countries, dna, economic, effort, emotions, environmental, ethic, events, exhibitions, expectations | Leave A Comment »
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#26 Re-Evaluate The Error
Here then is yet another new word, “innovage”, born of the marriage of “innovation” and “vintage”.
It’s really not all that surprising that so many new words are being thrown up every day. “The times they are a-changin’”, as the song goes, and in a really big way, be it in environmental, social, economic, or cultural terms. P...
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Dec 03, 2009 | Categories: Experiences | Tags: added value, bialetti moka, brands, catchword, cultural, economic, environmental, experiential commodities, ideas, innovage, innovation, knowledge economy, luca de biase, postindustrial age, reality | Leave A Comment »
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#24 Self Portrait
The House of illycaffé is heading for its seventy-fifth anniversary this year. When approaching these milestones the need to stop and ponder, to do a bit of stock-taking, to snap a self-timer shot of corporate performance and achievements thus far, is felt more than ever. The very title of one of the major events to celebrate, with all our collabo...
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Sep 18, 2009 | Categories: Experiences | Tags: andrea illy, anniversary, brand, coffee, company, consumers, corporate, cosmopolitan, customers, development, economic, enviromental, future, illycaffe, individual | Leave A Comment »
