By Edoardo Nesi
Winner of the 2011 Strega Prize, this combination of essay, social feedback, and memoir is a notable portrait of the consequences of globalization on Italy’s declining economy.
Starting from his family’s cloth manufacturing unit in Prato, Tuscany, Edoardo Nesi examines the hot shifts in Italy’s production undefined. just one new release in the past, Prato was once a thriving business heart that prided itself on craftsmanship and caliber. yet over the past decade, cost effectively made goods—produced in a foreign country or in Italy through poorly paid immigrants—saturated the marketplace, making it most unlikely for Italian businesses to maintain. In 2004 his kin was once compelled to promote the cloth manufacturing facility. How this might have occurred? Nesi asks, and what are the broader repercussions of wasting companies like his family’s, particularly for Italian culture?
Story of My People is a denouncement of huge company, corrupt politicians, the confidence of economists, and inexpensive production. It’s a must-read for somebody looking perception into the monetary concern that’s amazing Europe at the present time.
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To the outsider and given the growing economic importance of healthcare this large and notionally integrated market place appears to be an ideal innovation opportunity for the UK economy and business to work with healthcare delivery to identify and create the new healthcare products both capable of success in world markets and of giving real Feeling the pain: Disruptive innovation in healthcare markets 27 patient benefit. This opportunity was formally recognized in the UK with the publication of the Cooksey Review (Cooksey, 2006).
The most well known example of a disruptive technology in healthcare is less invasive medicine, particularly cardiac angioplasty and ultimately use of the stent (Hourd and Williams, 2007). Within the UK, Independent Sector Treatment Centres, which are commercially run, focused treatment centres operating in parallel to the mainstream NHS that take NHS patients, are another more service oriented instance of disruptive innovation. Disruptive technologies have three distinctive characteristics: they target non-consumers; they have a novel business model or value proposition and they drive out the incumbent in a niche where they deliver equivalent quality at a lower price.