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Alberto Tripi speaks at the 2007 Outsourcing Fair

Alberto Tripi speaks at the 2007 Outsourcing Fair

11-12-2007

Confindustria Servizi Innovativi e Tecnologici is one of the organizers of the 2007 Outsourcing Fair – the first tradeshow and conference on services to businesses and government – held at the Fiera di Roma, from 11 to 13 December.

12/11/2007
Alberto Tripi speaks at the 2007 Outsourcing Fair

Confindustria Servizi Innovativi e Tecnologici is one of the organizers of the 2007 Outsourcing Fair – the first tradeshow and conference on services to businesses and government – held at the Fiera di Roma, from 11 to 13 December.

The Federation will be taking part in both the show and the conference.
All the member organizations will be showcased: Oice is the representative organization for engineering firms, Unirec represents credit collection companies, Aiscris research and development consultants, Agesi Facility Management and Energy Services, Atema Temporary Management, Assocontact represents in/outbound call centers, Assoknowledge gathers training companies and, last but not least, Union, the Italian union of notified organizations.
 
Besides the Chairman, Alberto Tripi, who will be delivering an address at the opening conference, other speakers at the event will be the Vice Chairman of Confindustria Servizi Innovativi e Tecnologici, Ennio Lucarelli (on 11 December, at the conference on “Le opportunità e la governance dell’outsourcing degli enti pubblici” / Outsourcing: opportunities and governance for government agencies) and Gustavo Bracco (on 12 December, at the conference on “Le opportunità e la governance dell’outsourcing delle imprese” / Outsourcing: opportunities and governance for businesses). Speakers at the various meetings will also include the Chairman of Agesi, Teodoro Catanese, Gianna Terzani, Vice Chairman of Assocomunicazione, Massimo Ajello, General Manager of Oice, and Marco Recchi Secretary General of Unirec.
 
Mr. Tripi has explained the reasons behind this commitment: “We believe that the Outsourcing Fair is an important and, indeed, expedient event, which, we hope, may become a standard feature of this country’s economic agenda. Outsourcing, in fact, although little studied and despite its limited publicity is a large and structured market, with an enormous potential because it reaches across all fields of production and government. Outsourcing comprises specialized, hi-tech, cutting-edge services whose degree of development serves as an indicator of the state of progress of economic tertiarization and modernization.
 
In Italy, outsourcing represents a strategic opportunity, especially for SMEs and government. The former could rapidly bridge the innovation gap that undermines their competitiveness by using the state-of-the-art applications and cutting-edge services provided by outsourcing companies, instead of developing in-house solutions. For government, outsourcing is a strategic and management response to the need for cutting costs while improving the quality of its services. But the structural prerequisite for developing outsourcing in our country is to open up the services market to competition. The liberalization of services, the reduction and qualification of the contracting entities and the outsourcing of functions and services previously carried out internally by government entities are all moving in this direction, but success can only be guaranteed at the condition that the procurement processes be based on transparent public tendering.
 
Unfortunately, the institutions today are sending out contradictory signals with respect to competition, creating uncertainty and concern within the industry and slowing down its potential for development. Continuing the fake outsourcing policies often implemented in the past, which consisted in the creation of ad hoc public companies – thus increasing rather than reducing in-house involvement in the public sector – can solve no modernization problems, nor can they help cut public expenditure, as is obvious to all”.
 
Confindustria Servizi Innovativi e Tecnologici has a membership of 49 trade associations and 60 local branches, and ranks among the top Federations of the Confederation of Italian Industry. The Federation represents 17,000 businesses with a total turnover of about 102 billion euros and 600,000 employees, in the following sectors: satellite applications, communications and marketing, consulting, digital contents, e-media, training, engineering, internet, quality, radio and television broadcasting, market surveys and opinion polls, facility management services, hi-tech and high professional services, information technology and telecommunications.
 
According to National Statistics Office figures, the sector in Italy accounts for 18% of the GDP, employs 2,200,000 workers and is made up of 700,000 companies.