How Businesses Can Thrive Through Listening, Awareness, and Collaboration
In an era marked by major technological changes, global crises, and conflicts, it has become crucial for businesses to rediscover their long-term mission and vision.
It goes without saying that adopting a mindset of continuous listening is essential for companies — both internally and externally — involving all stakeholders and local actors.
This is also reflected in the report “Cohesion is Competition” by the Symbola Foundation, with which we partnered during the summer seminar held last June in Mantua, and whose values we share.
The document highlights how cooperation and cohesion are fundamental to the survival and success of businesses.
Cohesion introduces new forms of engagement and shared responsibility, essential for achieving business goals.
This approach enables companies to navigate uncertainty more effectively, fostering healthy, stimulating work environments that can respond efficiently to contemporary challenges.
The Role of Atteggiamento Digitale
As a benefit corporation — dedicated to helping companies grow through strategic consulting — we deliberately avoid transactional, performance-based dynamics between client and provider.
Instead, we choose to build true partnerships focused on tangible and lasting results.
We provide companies with the right tools to begin a journey of consulting and awareness, helping them define their mission, goals, and development.
This process serves as a sort of compass to face uncertain times. The keyword is values — only through their sharing can businesses achieve what they set out to do.
This also implies reorganizing the company’s structure, enabling each member to contribute their best.
What We Do
As a growth agency, we help entrepreneurs prioritize and coordinate key areas such as:
- Financial planning, optimization, and access to grants and subsidized financing;
- Recruitment, selection, and employee training;
- Alignment of marketing and sales activities.
Although each piece is important, every organization must act differently to plan its growth in an organic and positive way.
Network and Collaborations
Our strength lies in a stable network of professionals covering multiple sectors, based on a model that promotes synergy between territory, workforce, and sustainability.
Our approach is aligned with the emerging trends from Symbola Foundation’s “Cohesion is Competition 2024” report, which emphasizes the importance of engaging the local entrepreneurial fabric.
Insights from the “Cohesion is Competition 2024” Report
Symbola is not “just” about the 10 Theses for Sustainability competition — it also focuses on research, data analysis, and dialogue.
The report highlights that cooperation and cohesion are key to business survival and success. Among the key themes that emerge:
- Reorganizing supply chains with a focus on circularity;
- Emphasizing innovation to address growing complexities;
- Leveraging collaboration to overcome shortages of raw materials or workforce;
- Listening to one’s collaborators;
- Enhancing and valuing workers.
Regarding this last point, it’s important to note that companies that provide employees and collaborators with tools to achieve a healthy work-life balance tend to perform better in the market, attract more talent, and gain in reputation and innovation.
Initiatives such as employee share ownership and reduced work weeks demonstrate the value of engagement and employee well-being.
Business Alliances
Modern complexity requires specialized skills and collaboration among companies.
The pandemic underscored the importance of controlling value chains and promoting the adoption of ESG criteria (Environmental, Social, and Governance).
These indicators evaluate the performance of a business or a state not only from a financial perspective but also in terms of environmental impact, social responsibility, and good governance.
Examples include alliances such as ISWA in the wine sector and Magnolab in textiles, both promoting sustainability and innovation.
Returning to Local Roots and Digitalization
The German Hausbank model highlights the importance of trust-based relationships between banks and businesses.
Italian banks such as Intesa Sanpaolo are adopting similar approaches, offering support for sustainable projects and digitalization.
According to the report, this expanded role of banks helps SMEs enhance their resilience.
Consequently, cohesion emerges as a key element for competitiveness, enabling businesses to adapt, innovate, and thrive in a complex global context.
The report shows that cohesive companies achieve better results in terms of:
- Revenue;
- Employment;
- Exports.
Through an integrated and supportive approach, our agency promotes exactly the same vision outlined in the report and reaffirmed during the summer seminar.
