DIHV

Overview

In January 2018 the "Virtual Digital Innovation Hub" was set up by SI-IES Ltd in the wake of the national "Piano Industria 4.0" presented by the Italian Ministry of Economic Development. The DIHV is a non-profit organization (Fiscal Code 96446580589) represented by high profile professionals able to provide 360 degrees support to companies, especially SMEs.

The Virtual Digital Innovation Hub meets on a monthly basis, with the involvement of established or emerging players in the business field, in order to identify the areas of common interest on which to intervene to facilitate the process of Digital Transformation. Since the onset of the activities, meetings have been held, among these, with the tlc, health, education, financing, insurance and banking sectors, with company, enterprise, and SMEs, with the academic sector, with public administration and with innovative startups in the fields of ICT,  Digital Innovation, Cybersecurity and Distributed Ledger Technology, defining a solid network of contacts that allows to operate on the entire supply chain of the business consulting process integrating skills from a variety of qualified subjects. Monitoring of digital transformation on regional, national and international scale and the access to specialist expertise is also ensured thanks to the involvement of a set of experts from industry and academia (among which twelve participants who regularly attends the initiatives and five thematic experts).

One of the objectives of the DIHV, in preparation phase, is to create a synergistic workplace for professionals involved, so to enable them to communicate with the territory and with SMEs, training institutions, technopoles and digital startups, taking into consideration employment issues. The intent is to feed and improve corporate communication and strategic planning, always trying to complete horizontal and vertical paths and achieve innovative and competitive processes, products and services.

Also, DIHV intends to contribute to the construction of competences for the growth of human capital, providing access to advanced and strategic training and to the development of skills necessary for the new profiles of Enterprise 4.0.Overall, DIHV intends to operate as a catalyst for digital ecosystems able to support companies with challenging and competitive elements, consistent with Digitisation of European Industry.

Services and support activities for local SMEs:

business dissemination 4.0
innovation strategies
business planning 4.0
funding sources
legal advice
marketing and communication
Digital technologies.