#WMF2019 has brought up different topics useful to the manufacturing sector. The conclusion of the Forum leaves us with ten interesting Recommendations. These inputs aim at working towards creating an educated and skilled manufacturing workforce now and in the future. Here the first five Key Recommendations: 1. Create a manufacturing market with a life - long learning mind - set: it aims at creating a workforce that proactively seeks...

  The existing skill gap in the IT sector brings us to a mismatch between the offer and demand of profiles within the sector. This issue affects mostly companies and the first outcome of this phenomenon resulted in the hiring of technical profiles from abroad.  For this reason, Future Manager organizes a Workshop dedicated to the topic of Information Technology. It aims at finding operational and functional solutions to this...

The WMF 2019 Report shows us an interesting article about a project called digITALIA. Italy’s economy has a global importance as it is the second largest industrial nation in Europe. Due to this and the fact that there is a bilateral cooperation between Germany and Italy in the field of Vocational Education and Training the German- Italian Chamber of Commerce launched the two- year project digItalia in November 2018, which...

    The aim of these Key Recommendations is to forge the ability to work towards creating an educated and skilled manufacturing workforce now and in the future. Here the Ten Key Recommendations that companies should consider implementing:   Create a Manufacturing Market with a Life-Long Learning Mindset: Workers should proactively seek out life-long learning opportunities, create personal and professional incentives for workers to engage in training, empower workers by...

This is a new era in the labour market. From a Company Welfare point of view workers are demanding and obtaining more benefits. Moreover, nowadays it has become essential having a perfect work – life balance and due to this, a lot of new jobs or hints have entered the labour market. Of course, these changes are due to different factors but mainly it has to do with the fact...

  It is not that common to hear about the Imposter Syndrome, and when you here about it is not immediate the connection with the working environment. However, even if we have never given it a name, everybody has had, at least for a moment the Imposter Syndrome. Still, what is it? Have you ever felt like a ‘fraud’ at work? Have you ever thought that the success in your...

  Technology is a daily topic, from some decades now. The revolution has involved sectors that we thought impossible to innovate and today nothing comes as a surprise. Even when people start talking about a cashless society it has not the effect of a shock. Indeed, over the past decade, digital payments have taken off, and in some countries its not even necessary to have a single cash. A cashless...

  The results of the recent researches conducted by OECD, demonstrate that most of the countries are ageing rapidly. The suggestion is, indeed, to start taking actions in order to improve the labour market situation of older workers; some measures are necessary in order to put a brake on further improvements in living standards and lead to unsustainable increases in social expenditures. Here some data from the last report of...