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Net 4 Partners is a consulting company established in 2012 by C-level professionals with experience in innovation and ICT sectors. Net 4 Partners offers consulting for design and implementation of innovative services toward companies and public administrations, fundraising projects at regional, national and European level. Net 4 Partners develop innovative business models and business processes based on Cloud, Big Data, IoT and Open Data and technology applied in different sectors: Industry 4.0, Health, Environment, Smart Cities and Smart Communities.
Net 4 Partners supports companies in their investment and innovation strategy by using a mix of tools and a multidisciplinary approach. The company assists public administrations in their process of simplification and digitalization with specific expertise and innovative tools. The goal of Net 4 Partners is to win together and take on the challenge of change and improvement. The company looks for an integrated and personalized approach in each company.
When the company was founded , it supported public administrations and health companies with E-government policy and their digitalization needs to simplify, based on the quintuple innovation helix framework. Net 4 Partners focused on one-stop-shop, smart cities and smart communities and building a new relationship between the private and public sector in the innovation field.
The company has played the role of facilitator and dissemination agent of innovation with a cross-fertilization approach with their clients. Net 4 Partners had been a real digital innovation hub where its services covered end-to-end processes such as business analysis, fundraising, project management, domain consultancy, technology scouting and R&D consultancy for the development of new products/services and processes.
Later, the company moved also to the private sector. In the beginning, Net 4 Partners focused on companies that were operating and doing business with the public administration in the ICT sector. Then it expanded its service to all companies interested in technology and innovation. Now, Net 4 Partners covers all the spectrum of innovation and digital transformation starting from smart city to Industry 4.0.
Remarkably, Net 4 Partners is a female-friendly, highly educated and young company in the Italian scenario. There are 84% are women, 100% have a bachelor's degree, and 46% of workers are under 35 in its team.
Sonia Massobrio, one of the founders is the director of the Net 4 Partners. She brings from her past experiences an ethical approach toward innovation and developed herself as a public sector director. Sonia believes that technology can bring sustainable development to companies and public administrations and the entire society. She thinks that digital transformation is a social value which is based on ecosystems, networking, and sustainability.
Sonia has two master's degrees in STEM (Maths and ICT) and has a specialist degree in innovation for the public sector. She worked in innovation and ICT technology in the public administrations and companies the whole time. Sonia has been a coordinator of the Innovation department of (ENCI) the Italian Municipalities National Association and Director of Innovation e -Communication for the Municipality of the Capital of Le Marche Region.
Net 4 Partners is an Innovative SME (small medium enterprise). Innovative SME was introduced by Decree Law 3/2015. It comprises any small or medium-sized enterprise characterized by a strong innovation component and registered at the Italian Minister of Economy.
The Net 4 Partners team includes 4 innovation managers certified by Italian Minister of Economy. The team is in compliance with ISO 9001:2015 standard in the design and provision of consultancy services to support the definition of business models and business management in order to support access to public funding and tax incentives, public tenders, project management for public institutions and private companies.
Net 4 Partners believes that the company doesn't have clients but partners that they listen to and support with flexible and tailor-made solutions. Below are some of the notable feedback received from the clients:
"The tradition of the Brandoni brand luxury radiator looks with deep interest at the integration of these technologies with the most advanced IoT intelligence systems in the field of home automation. That is a path of technological innovation and new markets that is necessary and important, in which we're positioning and engage also counting on the support that Net 4 Partners has given us for the proposal and the financing of an important project of industrialization of the results of the research to be worth of funding from Marche Region"—Luciano Brandoni Senior Vice President B Thermal Solutions S.r.l.
"Evolvea, a company with high growth figures in the IOT universe, is carefully looking at subsidized finance tools and projects financed as a lever to support its investments in research and development and for its penetration of the Industry 4.0 markets.
Net 4 Partners, thanks to which Evolvea was established and financed as Innovative Start up just five years ago, supports us every day in this path of constant growth." ––Emanuele Bolzonaro General Manager Evolvea.
Net 4 Partners offers end-to-end services to support the digital transformation needs of its clients using a tailored approach, different for each one. The company uses a holistic approach that the company calls 'Digital Innovation wheel' based on three pillars: digital strategy, processes digitalization and skills digitalization.
Net 4 Partners is technology agnostic that uses different technologies such as IoT, Cloud Computing, Big Data and AI to create innovation for the clients. The company also uses a sound digital methodology build over years of work with public and private companies and standard tools and practices as BPMN 2.0 for re-engineering processes, project management, communication and digital strategy as inbound marketing and inbound government and ISO 56002:2019 Innovation management system, ITIL, PMP.
Net 4 Partners holds an expertise in cloud process compliance for IAAS, PAAS, SAAS certification at the Agency for Digital Italy (AgID), the technical agency of the Presidency of the Council of Ministers for Public Administration. The company has strong competencies on AI and deep learning dashboards to support public policies and strategic decision, especially in the public sector.
Innovation and digital transformation are Net 4 Partners' forte. The company helps Italian enterprises in private and public sectors in innovation, research and development in ICT technologies including big data, IoT, Cloud, Robotics, and networking with research centres and universities for investments to support their research and to market them in the best ways.
Net 4 Partners brings expertise and skills to help public organizations to move towards open-source framework in order to build an accessible and open government.
The company is also very active in the intellectual property law in order to foster innovation.
Net 4 Partners supports companies and organizations to innovate by giving them the methodology, tools and practices to compete in the international market. The company is launching a digital transformation academy to help the digitalization of competences and skills in the nation. Net 4 Partners believes that there is a huge need for technical skills in IoT, AI, computer vision to help companies to innovate. However, the company believes that technical skills should come together with soft skills which will help people to understand and drive the change, approach problems in a creative and disruptive way, and be open to new mindsets. Net 4 Partners takes Tony Buzan's say, 'Learning how to learn is life's most important skill' seriously.
Commenting on disruptive technologies Sonia says digital transformation is made by a mix of technologies and mindsets. Disruptive technologies like Cloud Computing, IoT, Big Data Analytics, Artificial Intelligence, Deep Learning, Machine Learning, Computer Vision, Automation and Robotics will bring the next decade a total reorganization of social and work life. "For this reason, we help companies and public administration to stay at the cutting-edge, driving the innovation forces instead of following. It is a tough task but particularly challenging and we are ready for it," she adds.
Net 4 Partners is a company that supports and fosters digital innovation for its clients following these pillars that make them unique in the Italian scenario:
Sonia believes that technologies and digital competences will be extremely important in the next few years. The company plans to cope with the change by transforming and redesigning the way they do business and relate to each other like companies, administrators, customers, and citizens. For this reason, a player like Net 4 Partners, a facilitator of change will have a key role in the development and sustainable growth.
"We are also believing that our contribution can be critical in the skill digitalization especially upskilling and reskilling the workers that need to face the change of technology to take part of the future," she asserts.
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