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Chinese Maritime Rimland
Posted by: Massimo Merlino in geopolitic
One hundred and twenty years ago Alfred Thayer Maham, teacher in US Naval War school in Newport, displayed a complete maritime strategy for USA, imitating UK policy under Victoria Queen, for dominating the world through the sea control and a ring of naval basis along islands and countries all around the Heartland of Mackinder, theory […] Read more
RITORNO A SANDEFJORD (45 anni dopo)
Posted by: Massimo Merlino in Culture
L’hotel è lo stesso, Scandic in riva al fiordo, il ristorante è lo stesso, le sale riunione le stesse, la colazione top in Norvegia la stessa, solo dormo in un’ala nuova da cui vedo il traghetto con Oslo con cui ero arrivato nel 1972. Sono sempre affascinato dai mille bivi della vita, da cosa poteva […] Read more
AMERICAN POLICY RISK TO LEAVE HEARTLAND TO CHINA
Posted by: Massimo Merlino in geopolitic
In July I discussed the coherence of Russian foreign politics with the basic Geopolitical concept of Mackinder about Heartland in Eurasia. Today I want to continue according to this category, discussing American politic in Asia, which clearly forgot Mackinder. First of all we are very far from the beautiful Nixon-Kissinger initiatives in Egypt and China […] Read more
BIG DATA BIG PERSPECTIVES
Posted by: Massimo Merlino in management
One of the major problems with technological change in Western World is communication style and consequential perceptions by people. Generally speaking you can measure a sense of fear and frustration toward new technologies, fear for unemployment, frustration because new difficult things to understand that will change my life and I can’t do nothing. In Asia, […] Read more
LOOKING AT GLOBALIZATION FROM VENICE BIENNALE
Posted by: Massimo Merlino in Culture
Biennale (every two years) is the periodical review of the status of contemporary art in the world by nation, hosted in beautiful pavilions builded in the thirties in Venice and in the big site of Arsenale a shipyard of 1700 having at the time 20000 workers for building and maintenance of Venice fleet. Pavilions are […] Read more
INDUSTRY 4.0, COMPETENCIES 1.0.
Posted by: Massimo Merlino in management
Industry 4.0 is before all a re-definition of industrial automation along three strategic policies: total integrated automation (robotics,AI,automated processes, IOT) development of business analytics to better exploit big data (learning machines) new human-machine interfaces (augmented reality and touch interfaces) The same name in Italy has been given to the fiscal incentives package based on accelerated […] Read more
Notwithstanding European Logistics, China is coming
Posted by: Massimo Merlino in Logistica
OBOR, One Belt One Road, is now renamed BRI, Belt Road Initiative, for a better explanation to Western world, but it remains THE PLAN which our and next generations will refer to as a corner stone in world development. After the second world war Europe remembers the Marshall plan, to rebuild countries and their infrastructures […] Read more
Geopolitical Coherence of Russian Strategy
Posted by: Massimo Merlino in geopolitic
Halford John Mackinder introduced in 1904 the pillar of modern Geopolitic, presenting in its paper “The Geographical Pivot of History” the concept of “heartland”, the large Central Asia space included from Artic Sea to Tibet, from Bering passage to Central Europe. After defining the economic, logistic, geographical configuration and their enormous potential for the dominant […] Read more
GLOBAL STRATEGIC MODELS AND LOCAL CULTURES
Posted by: Massimo Merlino in management
The recommendation to be GLOCAL very frequently used in the last century, has been not too often applied in management. Managerial schools insist on Global Strategic Models, generally coming out of USA culture and easily diffused in the Anglo-sphere, but with the reshuffling process of power balance in the world, also these basic paradigms must […] Read more
Reengineering Italy
Posted by: Massimo Merlino in Culture
It’s time to think, it’s time to be prepositive, it’s time to reengineering Italian economy, but also its culture. instead of the continuous political chatting without any content except power, power, power, it’s time to apply seriously to an effort of reengineering Italian economy, particularly the structure of industrial economy. From one side we have […] Read more