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44 RESILIENT AND ANTI-BUREAUCRATIC

tep up and make things happen. This is the Motto from which we started designing this issue of EVOLVE, being published in a particularly unusual period of our professional and personal lives, given the public health emergency we are currently facing. In general, among the many challenges for a multinational operating on different continents to overcome is the one regarding the excess of bureaucracy weighing down and paralyzing organizations: this having continued despite the advent of digitalization, the compass that will help us become more linear and effective in our work.

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What you have in your hands is an EVOLVE full of external contributions. As we see in the interview with Michele Zanini – international expert in business organizations and author with Gary Hamel of a soon to be published book on the theme of humanocracy – bureaucracy is difficult to eradicate because it is a mechanism that works, giving projects a clear, visible, measurable structure. Our Motto, “Beat the bureaucratic approach”, was created precisely to combat the kind of approach that threatens to undermine large companies from within. And not just them.

If you have not already done so, be sure to carefully read the content on the work of Yves Morieux, director of the Boston Consulting Group’s Institute for Organization. Thanks to him we have discovered some rules that help reduce bureaucracy, while increasing cooperation and engagement. Topics to ponder to get us out of the complicatedness trap and away from all of the unnecessary bureaucratic procedures that prevent every company from making the best use of complexity to achieve competitive advantage.

Then, looking at Maire Tecnimont, we have told our readers about the use of the AWP (Advanced Work Packaging) digital methodology, which helps our project managers redesign processes to generate efficiency, cost reduction and competitive advantage. In Maire Tecnimont’s vision, the “contractor of the future” uses technology to the fullest to coordinate the supply chain and create new digital services for customers. Our sights, however, are cast towards end of this strange tunnel, to the next issue of EVOLVE in which we will talk about “resilience”, an absolutely prevalent theme. We know well how adversity makes us stronger (and in this case it is not just a saying). In times like these, every organization needs to cultivate within itself a reserve of resilience and the capacity to respond to emergency. As CEO Pierroberto Folgiero has explained in the editorial, Maire Tecnimont has found itself to be ready, from a cultural as well as an organizational perspective, thanks in part to a smart working system that allows the entire company to remain operational, continuing work on the different projects in the various countries where we operate.

Among the many stories of resilience we have taken record of in recent days – episodes that we will discuss in greater depth in the next issue – we can cite the remote communication network being used with members of the external HAZOP LOPA team that has allowed the activities of the “PDH Kallo” project to be carried out effectively, a project entailing the construction of a new propane dehydrogenation plant in Belgium by the Tecnimont subsidiary for the Borealis group. And in the case of the Amursky project located on the border between Russia and China– where our Group is executing a 3.9 billion euro contract for Gazprom for the treatment of gas in the outer reaches of Asia –smart working has made it possible to manage relationships with people who work across 16 different time zones (from Moscow to Svobodny, all the way to Punta Catalina), everyone connected with Milan headquarters. We see from the feedback collected in the various departments that, generally speaking, remote meetings are more effective, productivity is high and people face emergencies with a healthy enthusiasm. As a result of this crisis, we within the Group are rediscovering the value and potential of a working method that, until a few weeks ago, was considered to be a backup solution. «Thanks to everyone’s enormous commitment – wrote president Fabrizio Di Amato – in early March, the Group was awarded two new contracts, a tangible sign that customers appreciate what we are doing and continue to put their trust in us. Furthermore, we have fulfilled our obligations with the closure of the 2019 financial statements, as well as those provided therein as a company listed on the stock exchange. I am convinced that – continues Di Amato – by complying with the national regulations and simultaneously continuing to pursue our objectives with the support of the digital tools at our disposal, we will be able to overcome this difficult moment and emerge stronger than before».

Concentrated and resilient: it is the only antidote that will let us all take a great leap forward together, with the awareness that we can change. In fact, we must.

The challenge of our Group: impeccably deliver our portfolio through operational and financial discipline.

Master the change, be actively part of it!

EVERY SINGLE DECISION COUNTS!

Our work-success is the result of a thousand single choices made in the right sequence. There is no time for procrastination.

Your contribution makes a difference!

BE ADAPTIVE!

Managing uncertainties is the core of our job… As a sailor faces the sea every day.

Let the passion for results drive your actions!

STEP UP AND MAKE THINGS HAPPEN!

Talk and listen directly to your colleagues. Sending an e-mail could not be a solution. Let’s keep our doors open.

Beat the bureaucratic approach!

WE ARE RESILIENT!

Fast changes in the market create discontinuities while opening also opportunities to the most responsive players.

Agility is the key!

NOT JUST THE COMPANY, THIS IS YOUR COMPANY!

Building together the success of our Group creates shared value to everyone. Recovering quickly from drastic changes is part of our noble and precious DNA. We live in a tough environment, but adversity made us stronger.

Let’s capitalize on lessons learnt!

OUR TOMORROW IS NOW!

These are extraordinary times. If we stay focused on our corridor of growth we will be ready to build the next decade of Maire Tecnimont.