The greatest investment a large company can make is in human resources, and the best innovation, beyond technology, is achieved through the perfect utilization of workforce capabilities.
Developing each employee’s potential, creating a comfortable environment where people can work with motivation, sharing values and the desire for growth while respecting customers and the offered product, are the activities that will allow companies to excel and provide increasingly better services.
For this reason, Idromeccanica Lucchini has long implemented a strategy aimed at optimizing human resources. This is both a delicate and exciting process, which is allowing the company to better understand itself and discover or rediscover talents and inclinations to be directed and targeted in the best way.
The Work Accomplished
The work focuses on the individual, but with a view to company growth, enhancing individual characteristics to improve the work of the entire group. Recognizing specific leadership capabilities within one or more production sectors, understanding the concept of emotional intelligence to enhance and focus it on problem-solving ability, highlighting and strengthening individuals’ soft skills from a group perspective are the main objectives of extensive work that starts with studying individual value and then articulates into the ability to manage this incredible mine of competencies provided by Lucchini employees.
What Idromeccanica Lucchini Seeks
Beyond existing values, Idromeccanica Lucchini has identified the skills necessary to initiate continuous growth while aligning with company values. An ideal employee (or collaborator) for Idromeccanica Lucchini, working in commercial, administrative, technical-design, or production areas, must be able to:
- Take responsibility
- Manage risk and uncertainty
- Maintain composure under pressure
- Work effectively in a team
- Manage time efficiently
- Pay appropriate attention
- Adapt to changes
- Have ambitions and future plans
- Convey passion
- Possess emotional intelligence
The company’s approach is to offer clients solutions and services focused on business enhancement, and for this reason, Lucchini needs skilled people who know their role but can also interact optimally with the rest of the team, and leaders who have the intelligence to identify and coordinate individual capabilities effectively.
Strategic Approach
The strategic idea is to generate a management pool that takes responsibility and commitment for reorganizing and developing the company internally, then extending this same concept to the external network of suppliers and collaborators. After corporate introspection and awareness of individual capabilities, internal reorganization becomes necessary, which must occur through agile, straightforward, and functional internal communication, with the fundamental purpose of better serving the end customer. The change will not be, as mentioned, only internal but will traverse the entire supply chain of service and material providers. The renewal process must involve all company areas, requiring different development tables with various project leaders, but under single corporate direction.
The Second Step
The expected result from this first phase is creating a more comfortable and secure environment for all workers, so that employees and suppliers find greater motivation while having more security and clarity in their tasks. Internal dynamics will improve, and efficiency and productivity will increase. But the fundamental resource of this part of the century, the most precious one that should become less scarce thanks to an organic reorganization of work, will certainly be time. More available time also means the possibility to improve not only economic aspects but investment and study opportunities to seek new markets and technologies. The improved internal climate will be an additional stimulus to utilize the time gained.
Defined and Measurable Objectives
For all this to unfold in the best possible way, Idromeccanica Lucchini must set defined and measurable objectives over time. A management pool must therefore draft a structured planning and control plan for objectives and procedures. This will result in 360-degree managerial management with programming and control with objectives, budgets, and performance, and especially with the identification of internal and external resources useful for achieving the target. Beyond the company, this process will be directed toward the supply chain for maximum sharing of company values.
Environment and Sustainability
Following the reorganization of Idromeccanica Lucchini’s personnel, a protocol to improve the company’s environmental impact will also be implemented. Lucchini has already established precise guidelines for energy savings, but an ethical disciplinary code for the environment is being drafted. Not only must the company be green and eco-sustainable, but new products will also be designed, from the planning phase, to have a low environmental impact.
This transition phase positions Idromeccanica Lucchini at the forefront and always attentive to contemporary themes. Keywords such as virtuous human resource management, potential enhancement, internal communication, project planning and measurability, resource optimization, and eco-compatibility will make Idromeccanica Lucchini a company projected into the central years of this 21st century.
