Innovation

Successful talented driver, engineer and entrepreneur: Bruce McLaren legacy lives on

Bruce McLaren not only was (and still is at statistical record), one of the youngest F1 talents and winners; he was the last F1 driver to win a Grand Prix driving a car carrying his name and developed also thanks to his engineering degree and skills. Besides that he was also an ambitious successful motorsport entrepreneur  winning key races and championships in Europe and the USA while competing in several categories with his own cars at the same time and even making his very own road supercar prototype. Too bad that all of this ended tragically too soon. Yet is legacy lives on strongly. This book tells a behind the scenes story about it all.

Going to the roots of motorsport business research and development

During Austosport International 2020 (NEC Birmingham, UK) Riccardo Paterni (RPM VP Business Development), Dr Tim Angus (RPM Board Advisor and UK Representative), Giorgio Casolari (RPM VP Network Develpment) and Nicoletta Visconti (Pistal Racing CEO) met members of Coventry University’s Centre for Business in Society, which incorporates key individuals with world leading motorsport industry research expertise, including Professor Nick Henry , Dr Tim Angus himself and Dr Kevin Broughton. It has been very interesting and valuable to learn first hand about motorsport business roots and growth dynamics from the people that originated seminal research in the field twenty years ago and have been reviewing them since. RPM has close linkages with Coventry University and has strenghen them for the purpose to shape and sustain growth strategies for the network and its members within a motorsport business scenario in marked evolution.

Itinera Consulting: let’s the journey begin!

A synergic experienced team of professionals focusing on finding and developing opportunities for you in complex high potential international contexts . 

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Itinera Consulting Srl: Rodolfo Bertacca, Giovanni Cappietti, Cinzia Perugini, Riccardo Paterni, Pierpaolo Vannucci

 

RPM General Counsel in Maranello, hosted by Andreoli & Co. Srl

On 19th September 2019 RPM had its second organisational General Counsel after the one held in Rome last April. The meeting was hosted at the headquarters of Andreoli & Co. Srl , a RPM member, in Maranello, the company has 36 years of experience spanning in designing, manufacturing and certifying components for motorsport, automotive and other strategic industries such as energy and the aerospace sector ( www.andreolisrl.com ). We thank Andreoli for their kind hospitality; it has been a pleasure to visit their facilities and gain a first hand feel for the breadth and depth of their projects.

Almost all of the current RPM members (coming from all over Italy) were present to continue to empower in action plans RPM’s vision and mission. Besides administrative and bureaucratic work on the agenda (current fiscal year budget report and approval), the focus of the meeting has been to review the characteristics and development of the RPM website (released last July www.rpm-italia.org in all of its functional and organisational characteristics) and on ways to expand national and international business networking in the field of motorsport and other technologically related sectors.

RPM presence to upcoming and future international trade shows and events has been discussed and defined in action plans. The focus on ongoing development of international relations in geographical areas and sectors suitable for growth has also been debated.

It has been pointed out that the core of the development of the network and its members resides in establishing a stronger reciprocal knowledge enabling the strengthening of ties already present among members and establishing new ones within the network and towards external entities.

The focus has to be on identifying and sharing at best the own unique competencies channelling them at best in order to pursue international business development and continue to pursue innovation projects. Specific organisational programs on this subjects are in preparation and will be implemented. Related to these purposes a survey has been approved for data and information gathering customised to tailor at best RPM and its members development needs. Upcoming entering members to RPM have also been announced. Stay tuned for updates relevant to all of the activities.

RPM : Innovation through Italian Motorsport Industry Excellence

RPM (acronym for Rete Professionisti Motorsport – Motorsport Professionals Network in Italian) is a network of companies and professionals that promote innovation globally through Italian Motorsport Excellence.

From their recently released website:

“Innovation is at the heartof business success in the modern globalised knowledge economy. Italian firms are renowned for their innovative capability, particularly the innovatory capability  of the small and medium size firms (SMEs) that make up the backbone of the Italian economy. Within the global motorsport industry, Italy is well known as being one of the global centres for the  industry, with names such as Ferrari and Ducati being just two of the global players within motorsport that are based in Italy. At the same time, Italian SMEs working  within the motorsport industry are also world class in the quality of their  product and their innovatory capacity. RPM  has been formed to promote these Italian SMEs capabilities both within Italy and outwards to the world in the field of motorsport as well as in many others technologically advanced fields.”

At this link the Vision, Mission and Values of this formal network of SMEs operating in the from the Italian Motorsport Industry to the world 

Visit the newly released websiteto learn about all of the players and their latest news.

Motor Valley Fest; what’s next for automotive and mobility. The speed factor …

On May 16th 2019, the first edition of the Motor Valley Fest has begun with a conference held in Modena at municipal theatre named after Luciano Pavarotti. The Conference, focusing on the future of automotive, has featured a round table by the top management of the companies that traditionally represent the backbone of the Motor Valley: Ferrari, Lamborghini, Maserati, Ducati, Dallara and other automotive specialists.

The topic has been introduced by a research elaborated and presented by McKinsey & co. Here the contents relevant to such research Automotive revolution, perspective towards 2030 and Race 2050 – A vision for the European automotive industry 

The round table debate has focused on debates relevant to electric vehicles overall actual impact on reducing environmental pollution and mostly ways in which synergies can be created among companies, universities and public entities in order to generate the necessary structural dynamic changes within the industry.

As Mr.Pontremoli, Dallara CEO, has summarised well, the Motor Valley has unique opportunities within these changing contexts: “No longer the dynamics are simply the ones of the bigger fish eating the smaller one; today is the fast fish that beats the slow one, and we are fast by default”.