10 management best practices

Corporate culture is not created in a day. It takes years and years to create a solid and effective corporate culture. And the majority of companies fail to create a solid corporate culture. That's why I've collected some corporate best practices that I've selected in 20 years of experience in international companies.

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How to build sustainable ecommerce: the ecommerce P&L

E-commerce has become essential for most companies. But to have a sustainable e-commerce, therefore profitable, from a financial point of view, it is necessary to know and be able to manage all the elements of revenue and cost, and how to control their impact on the margins of the channel.

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Why It's Hard to Accept Ideas You Don't Know. Plato's Cave Myth

Do we think we are innovators or conservatives? Are we open to change or do we reject it? But above all, why are we sometimes refractory to ideas that come from outside? We can easily understand this if we reread the “myth of Plato’s cave”. In this allegorical tale, dating back more than 2000 years, we observe the behavior of people who have always lived in a certain world – the cave – when faced with the possibility of experiencing a new world.

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“Surrounded by idiots”: because it’s normal to feel surrounded by idiots.

Thomas Erikson’s “Surrounded by Idiots” offers a practical framework for understanding and collaborating effectively with individuals who differ in mindset and character from our own.
The provocative title hides a profound message: effective communication and collaboration depend on our ability to understand and appreciate the different behavioral styles of those around us.

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The "rolling wave" planning in waterfall and agile methodologies, compared.

The "rolling wave" planning approach requires you to plan in a details only the activities that are soon to be delivered and to plan only at high level the activities that are to be worked on at a later stage.

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Management

• How to effectively manage the escalation process at work.And why it's important to have a clear escalation path. >>
• How to delegate and what can and cannot be delegatedManaging through delegation >>
• Book review and comments to the GTD methodology Getting things done in 9 simple points. >>

Project management

• The project charter. What to write in the project charter and how to use it to guide projects to success. >>
• The terminology of project management in Italian and English >>
• The difference between product scope and project scope in the PMI methodology >>

Enrico Fantaguzzi

My experience began in 2000 in the group Tod's as a website and digital marketing manager. In 2008 I moved to London to work at TheWalt Disney Company, as a project manager in the Disney Interactive division. In 2011 I returned to Italy where I started working on e-commerce projects in the fashion and luxury sector first Yoox Then Gucci and since then I have been dealing with digital strategies, e-commerce and digital marketing. Find out more about me >>

After more than twenty years of experience in both large and small and medium-sized fashion companies, I started aonline academy which provides training on the topics in which I specialize: fashion e-commerce, digital marketing, digital transformation.

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PMP certification

I am a scholar of project management methodologies, especially the cascade ones, I took the certification of Prince2 in 2009 and PMP in 2012.