Create a figure entirely dedicated to technological consultancy for companies. This is the idea of Future Age, a Brescia-based company that supports companies through effective and sustainable managerial development, which has decided to bet on IT and aims to become a reality entirely dedicated to digital development by 2025, focusing on 70 % of investments in the Information Technology Business Unit for the next five years. To do it, Future Age has decided to launch the figure of the IT broker.
For companies, digital transformation is now an obligatory path; However less than 20% of Italian companies have the figure of internal IT manager and the decision-making processes in this area are often entrusted to the outsourcing supplier, usually the software house. The risk is that a strong information asymmetry is generated between the entrepreneur, who rarely has IT skills, and the supplier. The Future Age IT Broker was born just like “facilitator-translator” for the IT language entrepreneur with the aim of accompanying him in a sustainable digital transformation.
He is an independent figure who possesses very high skills both in the IT field and in industrial processes, capable of adapting the single technological tool to the company's processes and human resources. In fact, many companies believe that the technological tool (software) can drastically improve company performance, forgetting that technologies must support processes, not guide them, and they must be at the service of people in order to maximize their value and talent.
“We are strongly convinced – he comments Vladimiro Franchinelli, at the head of the IT Business Unit of Future Age – that in the next ten years the strategic process par excellence in our companies will be IT. The activity of the IT broker is essentially divided into 3 phases: it begins with the IT assessment, i.e. the evaluation of the digital level of the company through the analysis of the software present, followed by the process mapping, analysis of the processes for reduce waste from a lean perspective and thus adapt the technological tool. Finally, the Business Intelligence Strategy comes into play, a method for collecting and analyzing company strategic data with the aim of helping the entrepreneur to make incisive and informed decisions”.
