INNOVATIVE IDEAS
The Innovative Ideas category brings together forward-looking initiatives designed to anticipate emerging challenges in the twin transition — digital and social — and in knowledge-intensive industries. These ideas may focus on new organisational models, skills ecosystems, digital transformation, cultural change, or novel approaches to talent attraction and development.
Innovation in this context is not innovation for its own sake. It is purposeful, strategic, and aligned with long-term organisational resilience. These initiatives often introduce new frameworks, technologies, or collaborative practices that reshape how knowledge is created, shared, and applied.
This category celebrates experimentation, strategic vision, and the courage to rethink established practices in order to build future-ready organisations.
Family Redefined
Observing how traditional work-life balance policies often fail to reflect the diversity of modern caregiving…
Team Management and Improving the Restaurant Experience.
In the fast-paced environment of Santa Justa Restaurant, Diana Fernandes has transformed everyday team coordination…
Team Organization and Skills Enhancement in the Building Finishing Sector
Working in the demanding and highly practical field of building finishes, Olga Fernandes recognised that…
Knowledge Capital
Observing the growing gap between the skills companies need and those available on the market,…
“Change Forward” – Organizational Evolution and Generational Transition Pathway
Amid a complex phase of generational transition and organisational transformation, Leda Ferrari, HR Manager at…
Augmented People: Redefining Work in the AI Era
As presented by Cristina Del Guasta, the METIS Project represents the organisation’s strategic investment in…
Organisational Knowledge as a Driver for Effective Onboarding
Organisations experiencing growth often face a common challenge: ensuring that new employees quickly understand their…
YourChange® Canvas: Collective Intelligence Framework for Strategic HR Alignment
Recognising how easily strategic intent becomes fragmented in complex organisations, Alessandro Lotto set out to…
FutureSkills EU – Upskilling & Reskilling
Observing the widening gap between emerging digital and green skill demands and the capabilities available…
Multicountry Predictive Labor Adjustment System with Inverted Recruitment, Experiential Evaluation Based on Kolb’s Model, and Environmental Sustainability Approach
Observing structural labour mismatches across Spain, Colombia, Italy and Hungary, Cristian Manuel Andrés Porras Calderón…
A Strategy for Developing Soft Skills and Leadership Skills in Middle Management at Contact Centres
Having observed the high turnover, burnout and lack of structured support affecting middle managers in…
From Intuition to Listening: Building an HR People Management System in a Family-Owned Company
Faced with rising turnover and growing generational tensions in a family-owned manufacturing company, Liana Griggio…
Flexible Model of People Management in Experiential Tourism
In the dynamic and seasonal world of experiential tourism, Óscar Oliveira recognised that traditional people…
Airport Academy
Presented by Cristian Esposito and Giulia Trombella, the Airport Academy is an organisational response by…
Horizontal Development of Production Resources
Confronted with increasing turnover and fierce competition for skilled production workers, Annamaria Pigozzo chose to…
Inclusive Employment Bridge. An Intermediation Ecosystem Connecting Companies and Migrant Talent
Observing the persistent gap between companies struggling to fill vacancies and migrant professionals whose skills…
Mental Health Days as a Knowledge Preservation Strategy
Recognising that burnout is not only a wellbeing issue but a silent threat to organisational…
“Staffetta Veneta: L’Academy del Saper Fare”
Many SMEs rely on the expertise of senior professionals whose knowledge has been built through…
Training to Transform
Operating in a fast-moving, project-based environment, Sara Montanari, Group HR Manager at Net Service Group,…
Talent Digital Twin (TDT): A Predictive Architecture for Managing HR Complexity
Confronted with the growing complexity of workforce management in data-fragmented and rapidly evolving organisations, Víctor…
An Integrated RAG and Communities of Practice Model for Organisational Learning
Confronted with the growing fragmentation of organisational knowledge and the rapid rise of generative AI,…
Project-based Upskilling Ecosystem
Observing how organisations struggle to find specific competences externally while valuable internal skills remain hidden,…
Train-the-Trainer – How an HR leader can be the engine of change
In a lean organisation where HR consisted of a single leader supported by payroll administration,…
Predictive Resignation Risk Model for Public Administration
Observing the growing wave of voluntary resignations within European public administrations, particularly among early-career and…
HR Talent Booster
Recognising that many organisations struggle not because of a lack of talent, but because of…
The One-Question Override (OQO): A Minimal HR Mechanism to Improve Decision Quality in Complex Organizations
Working at the intersection of organisational design and complex decision-making, Pasquale Esposito challenges the assumption…
People with Disabilities Social Inclusion
Recognising the untapped potential of qualified professionals with disabilities, Silvana Maria Polachini Miranda set out…
SkillFlow: A Competence-Based Internal Mobility System
Observing how organisations often search externally for talent that already exists within their own teams,…
Talent Attraction & Development Academy – Turning Industrial Know-How into a Strategic Asset
Confronted with an ageing workforce and the risk of losing decades of specialised industrial expertise,…
Digitalization of the Time & Attendance System
At Gibus S.p.A., Martina Pinton identified that manual time and attendance processes were limiting both…
HR SIMLAB EUROPE: Simulation-Based Training for Strategic, Digital and Sustainable HR Management
OVERSEA srls Consulting & Training Services has positioned itself at the forefront of HR innovation…
Competency Mapping in ARD Raccanello
Facing the strategic challenges introduced by ARD Raccanello’s first Industrial Plan, Anita Zuin chose to…
A Living Competency Map for Organizations Building Tomorrow – an endless story
Recognising that traditional competency frameworks quickly become outdated in fast-changing environments, Tímea Rátkainé Maximilián-Tóth set…
Formative Strategic Competence Assessment: ENAIP Veneto VET Teachers and Trainers
Challenging traditional notions of competence as merely measurable performance, Cinzia Ritt set out to rethink…