Publication Authors: Mariangela Lazoi

Giuliana Barba, Marianna Lezzi, Mariangela Lazoi, Massimo Scalvenzi

The rapid advancement of Generative Artificial Intelligence (GenAI) has attracted considerable attention in industry and academia due to its transformative potential to automate the generation of text and multimedia content. However, concerns have emerged about privacy and information security implications in industrial settings, where sensitive data and intellectual property are essential assets. While prior works […]

IN: Proceedings IFKAD 2025: Knowledge Futures: AI, Technology, and the New Business Paradigm
1149-1158
Vito del Vecchio, Mariangela Lazoi, Fabio Paracchini, Giorgia Specchia

Innovation measurement remains a persistent challenge for organizations, especially in fast-evolving and complex sectors like ICT and IT, where traditional evaluation models struggle to capture the dynamic and intangible nature of innovation. Despite the abundance of proposed metrics and frameworks, the field remains fragmented, lacking a unified theoretical foundation and consistent methodological standards. This study […]

IN: Proceedings IFKAD 2025: Knowledge Futures: AI, Technology, and the New Business Paradigm
785-794
Vito Del Vecchio, Martina De Giovanni, Ayotobi Oromiye Holo, Mariangela Lazoi

Industrial organizations are increasingly investing in technology and digital transformation (DT) initiatives to enhance their digital maturity and achieve sustainable growth within VUCA markets. However, the potential benefits of these investments vary depending on the company’s level of technological maturity. Higher maturity generally provides better positions to implement DT strategies and maximize their return on […]

IN: Proceedings IFKAD 2025: Knowledge Futures: AI, Technology, and the New Business Paradigm
755-764
Sajjad Ahmed, Miguel Mira da Silva, Alberto Rodrigues da Silva, Mariangela Lazoi

The advent of low-code and no-code (LCNC) platforms has revolutionized software development, making it accessible to users with different programming skills. These methodologies provide both technical and non-technical users with innovative solutions to optimize the software development process. The goal of this paper is to inform and enrich both scholarly discourse and practical application by […]

IN: Proceedings IFKAD 2025: Knowledge Futures: AI, Technology, and the New Business Paradigm
765-774
Alessia Anna Catalano, Christian Catalano, Vito Del Vecchio, Mariangela Lazoi

Big Data (BD) and Big Data Analytics (BDA) offers industrial companies the opportunity to harness the full potential of data to improve business operations, increase customer satisfaction, and maintain a competitive advantage in their reference market. On the other hand, it is crucial to easily and appropriately use and read data and information. Therefore, data […]

IN: Proceedings IFKAD 2024 – Translating Knowledge into Innovation Dynamics
3127-3152
Giuliana Barba, Mariangela Lazoi, Marianna Lezzi

Competence management plays a pivotal role in enhancing the competitiveness of organizations in today’s fast-changing business environment. In particular, the use of ontologies for the structured management of competence data has proven to be strategic in various industries (such as, manufacturing, aviation and construction) and for different industrial processes (from supply chain management to product […]

IN: Proceedings IFKAD 2024 – Translating Knowledge into Innovation Dynamics
1607-1626
Carla Di Biccari, Mariangela Lazoi, Lorenzo Viva

Heritage-specific intervention projects, through the use of the Building Information Modeling (BIM) methodology, are being continuously implemented at the level of data computerisation and process automation, across all BIM dimensions and project stages. In particular, through the 4D HeritageBIM (HBIM) phase, it is necessary to take into account specific classes of intervention of the asset […]

IN: Proceedings IFKAD 2023 – Managing Knowledge for Sustainability
1186-1200
Angelo Corallo, Vito Del Vecchio, Mariangela Lazoi

In the Industry 4.0 framework, manufacturing companies often fail in investing on priority technologies risking to not fully exploit their value. Considering the limitation of both human and financial resources, due also to the Covid-19 pandemic, they need to accurately identify the right directions of investment. Particularly, aerospace manufacturers need to address their resources for […]

IN: Proceedings IFKAD 2022 – Knowledge Drivers for Resilience and Transformation
1318-1338