A Proposal for a Standard With Innovation Management System

Anna Arnò, Stefano De Falco and Guglielmo Trupiano
up on corporate innovation, as to make an inspection for innovation, useful, for example, in ex-post
audits of projects after financing.
This initiative is characterized by a strong social value in terms of impact on employment, producing
new professional figures, accredited and recognized, that, so far, have often been requested but
whose availability was approximate and not rigorous. An example is that the reference to these
profiles is made inside of notices of funding, but these are still missing information about the
requirements they must prove to posses.
In figure 2 the "core" activities to promote AICTT’s certification are shown.
Figure 2: "Core" activities to promote AICTT’s certification
5. The new concept of CTP, "company technology performance"
In an era where every year are produced more information and knowledge than have ever been
produced throughout the history of mankind, and where it is even more difficult to select and enhance
this volume of information and knowledge, the real meaning of " innovation "can have very different
shades. At the same time, for every company committed to the market, the need to create value
through innovation is configured more like a condition not a choice, and often as a prerequisite to
survival rather than for the growth.
Be it manufacturing or service, it may change the object of innovation (new products or new services,
new patents, new processes, or simply the generation of new needs, new ways of using products and
services already consolidated), but not the centrality of innovation to define objectives across all
sectors and at every class size of firms : costs reduction, improvement of the quality of products and
services, capacity of acquire new customers and retain the existing ones, safeguard the welfare of
their employees, to mention among these goals, the most immediate and well known ones, in the
consulting business.
Large and small actors, of the productive economic system, have been facing, since several years, a
scenario and an environment characterized by deep uncertainty, at the same time cause and effect
of a severe recession economic and of a structural financial instability. This situation is widely led
back, by many analysts, to a serious threat for many companies, making potentially unsustainable
over time their market position and, sometimes, their survival.
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