We inaugurate our section Our knowledge company with the welcome and valuable contribution of Mario Bartocci. Born in Fabriano, graduated in Industrial Engineering, he has a long and diverse experience as comapany manager. This experience is landed today in the responsibility of Coordinator of the “Fondazione Aristide Merloni.” In 2011 he published “Animal Spirits in Vallesina. Enrico Loccioni and the enterprise as a game “, a book that describes the reality of our Group in an original and exciting way, and that this is a milestone of our corporate culture.

Mario Bartocci

“Know to deliberate” is the well-known golden rule that Luigi Einaudi proposed to all who have responsibility for decision and action”.

But, in the history of industrialization, for a long time, the company was of the few who knew and deliberated and of the many who did not know and not deliberated.  This was, in essence, the formula of Frederick Taylor that had found large application in production systems inaugurated by Henry Ford and was applied, in essence, from all the big European and Western industry.

The strategic drivers were:

• growth in size to achieve economies of scale and beat the competition
• greatest standardization of product to limit for investment in plant
• repetitive fragmentation of production to increase the work efficiency

Taylor went so far as to say that even if the worker to the assembly line has innovative ideas, should not express them because they constitute a damage to productivity …
This idea began to bilge when the large fordist industry found itself in front of its stiffness and its slow decision-making with a market that grew in amplitude, vibrancy and diversity of demand.

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