Meet CEFRIEL – Politecnico di Milano

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Meet CEFRIEL – Politecnico di Milano

Cefriel is a not-for-profit digital innovation center, founded in 1988 by the Polytechnic University of Milan to help the country’s businesses, society, and economy grow and develop by using and expanding skills and knowledge in the field of technologies and digital services. The centre’s mission is to make digital innovation benefit the country, organically combining research, innovation, and training, as well as leveraging the skills and knowledge from the world of research, companies, and public administration.

Cefriel’s activities fall into three key action areas:

development of the company’s strategic vision and its implementation through innovative service and technology adoption plans;
design and development of innovative products, services, and processes;
development of the company’s know-how, organizational models, and processes so it can operate successfully on the market and grow responsibly and sustainably.

By using methods, approaches, tools, and models based on state-of-the-art international research and innovation, Cefriel helps companies and the public administration define their vision and establish their strategies for seizing on digital technologies, helping them scout and assess innovative technologies, then build and manage a portfolio of digital innovation projects.

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Relevant Background & Expertise

Cefriel helps companies build the most suitable innovation strategy, minimizing investment uncertainty and ensuring a tangible, measurable impact, through experience in different areas of expertise:

Analytics & Artificial Intelligence: Cefriel lead companies and public bodies to enhance their information assets, enable Data Governance, and responsibly make the most of Artificial Intelligence;
Cybersecurity: promoting and developing a personalized, sustainable and communicable approach to safety, through an integrated vision between systems, plants, processes and people;
Digital Ecosystems: enabling new business models and end-user services based on digital relationships between partners;
Knowledge Technologies: collecting, integrating, and harmonizing different sources of knowledge, both human and digital, to create intelligent systems capable of producing value for business;
Product & Experience Design: generating a positive impact on people through product innovation and new customer experience design;
Smart Industry Solutions: helping industries leverage digital transformation opportunities to enable the Smart Factory;
Software Architectures and Solutions: creating software solutions and managing their evolution;
Sustainable & Responsible Innovation: creating new solutions, business models, processes and organizational structures capable of generating value through a set of skills as part of a long-term corporate vision based on shared values and objectives;
Innovation Management: increasing competitiveness and potential attraction of companies in today’s markets, focusing on continuous product and process innovation.