Gerardo BOSCO

GESTIONE DEI PROCESSI INNOVATIVI NELLE ORGANIZZAZIONI COMPLESSE – 2nd semester, a.y. 2025/2026
Course start: 24 February 2026
Classes:
Tuesday 16:00–18:00, Room 6b
Wednesday 12:00–14:00, Room 6b
Thursday 14:00–16:00, Room 8a

THERE WILL BE NO LESSON ON THURSDAY, APRIL 2nd AND THURSDAY, MAY 7th. THESE TWO LESSONS WILL BE MADE UP ON MAY 19th AND 20th.

☞THURSDAY, MARCH 26TH CLASS: Roundtable on SMEs (Assocontroller + Entrepreneurs + Professionals)
☞THURSDAY, APRIL 23RD CLASS: Roundtable on SMEs (Andaf + Entrepreneurs + Professionals)

Course objectives:
The course aims to provide students with theoretical and applied knowledge to understand how complex organisations operate in contexts characterised by high variability and uncertainty. From this perspective, teaching develops the ability to analyse and design operational and decision-making processes as a central lever for the effective implementation of strategies and for value creation for all stakeholders, also from a sustainability and innovation perspective. Particular emphasis is placed on the centrality of techniques and tools of process management, process re-engineering and project management, enhancing the skills needed to define, design and manage process-based organisations, as well as interdisciplinary cooperation as an essential condition for competing effectively in complex and dynamic contexts.

Course topics:
- Business organisation, business processes and process management
- Process life cycle
- Business process re-engineering:
-- process mapping
-- process analysis and performance evaluation metrics
-- process redesign
- Process simulation and digitalisation (digital twin): digital transformation and business process management
- Processes and knowledge – a data-driven approach
- Risk management, compliance and sustainability of business processes

Textbooks:
-Business Process Management (2022), Barbara Scozzi, Davide Aloini, Mariangela Lazoi, Stefano Lisi, Hoepli
-Armonia operativa. Processi, Controllo e Risk Management nell'era dell'esperienza imprenditoriale (2024), Mario Calabrese, Gerardo Bosco, Roberto Grattacaso, Giappichelli. This book is an additional text covering specific aspects of process management, process digitalisation, and risk management related to process operations.

Classroom access link:
https://classroom.google.com/c/MjE5OTQ3NjY4MTJa?cjc=kdwenzcw

Further details regarding the syllabus, additional learning activities and exam assessments will be provided during classes.

Exam sessions:
15 June 2026
8 July 2026
8 September 2026
12 January 2027
26 January 2027
Extraordinary exam sessions:
12 May 2026
10 November 2026
The dates will be published on INFOSTUD and on the lecturer’s webpage.
Only students who book the exam on INFOSTUD will be able to take the exam. Students who have booked the exam will receive email communications with details on how the exam will be conducted (format, times, classrooms, etc.).

Student office hours: by appointment via email to arrange date and time with the student.
Email: gerardo.bosco@uniroma1.it

MANAGEMENT DELL'INNOVAZIONE - FONDAMENTI DI MARKETING E COMUNICAZIONE D'IMPRESA (Faculty of Architecture) – 1st semester, a.y. 2025/2026
Course start: 10 October 2025
Classes: Friday 14:00–19:00, Room F3, Via Flaminia.
Course objectives and syllabus:
The Innovation Management course aims to provide students with the skills to analyse, design and govern innovation projects, from idea to market. The syllabus is structured into three integrated blocks:
Dynamics of technological innovation (sources, forms and models of innovation; standards and “dominant design”; entry-timing decisions);
Development of technological innovation strategies (definition of innovation trajectories and strategies; selection of protection and appropriation mechanisms);
Implementation of technological innovation strategies (process organisation and team management for the development of new products/services).
The learning objective is to enable students to translate the analysis of opportunities into feasible innovation strategies and operational roadmaps, choose appropriate protection tools consistent with the context, and coordinate interdisciplinary processes and teams through to the release of validated concepts and prototypes.
Textbook:
For the Innovation Management module, the reference text is Schilling M. A., Izzo F., Gestione dell’innovazione (2022), McGraw Hill.
Classroom access link:
https://classroom.google.com/c/MjM1NTgwOTg5MjVa
Further details regarding the syllabus and exam assessments will be provided during classes.
Student office hours: by appointment via email to arrange date and time with the student.
MANAGEMENT DELL'INNOVAZIONE – Fundamentals of Marketing and Business Communication SYLLABUS (and textbook contents) to be studied for the final exams:
From the book Gestione dell’innovazione (Schilling–Izzo), study:
Chapter 1 (entire chapter): Innovation, economics of innovation, innovation and competitive advantage, innovation and the firm
Chapter 2 (entire chapter): Sources of innovation
Chapter 3 (entire chapter): Forms and models of innovation
Chapter 4: only the section on Dominant design
Chapter 5 (entire chapter): Entry-timing decisions
Chapter 6 (entire chapter): Defining strategic orientation
Chapter 7: only the section on development budgets and cash-flow discounting methods
Chapter 9 (entire chapter): Mechanisms for protecting innovation
Chapter 10: only the section on firm size and structural variables
Chapter 11: only the introduction and section 11.2
Chapter 12 (entire chapter): Managing the new product development process
Chapter 13 (entire chapter): Formulating a marketing strategy for innovation (slides)
Chapter 14: only section 14.3
For any clarification, please contact the Instructor by email: gerardo.bosco@uniroma1.it