Knowledge and Business Intelligence Technologies in Cross-Enterprise Environments for Italian Advanced Mechanical Industry

The internetworking and the outsourcing of business activities have become essential in the short term to maintain competitiveness in the market, as it allows to significantly reduce time and cost of core business processes. However, outsourcing, increasing the level of information sharing, imposes new precautions to maintain, in the medium and long-term, strategic control over the knowledge produced and exchanged, both in terms of “know-how” and “know-that”. Especially for SMEs, his implies substantial risk of a technological nature, in that it requires complex and extremely expensive technological framework. KITE.it aims to develop a methodological and technological framework to support the transition of the advanced mechanical supply chains towards Value Network models able to guarantee: – interoperability and cooperation between firms and individuals in the network; – the management and securing of the intellectual capital; – measurement and performance optimization.