The most important training market players forecast indicates a constant demand for in-house, meaning specific in-company training programs, while the demand for traditional training initiatives, such as catalogue courses, will significantly decrease.

In this scenario both companies and in general those that want to improve their career perspectives and can’t afford a cultural decay (professionals, high end technicians, top managers) are looking for adequate highly targeted training programs, able to satisfy specific needs, with the possibility of reducing the time they spent in class and can decide their own specific learning and study paths.

From a survey by ASFOR on “Managerial training evolutive trends” it seems “managers represent a specific target, with increasing limited time and attention to be dedicated to training” and it is therefore necessary to “rethink both contents and teaching methodologies. Time and attention contraction requires that training assures a value comparatively higher if compared to other priorities”. There is therefore a “shift from training, to learning, to knowledge sharing” also “including the trainer in processes of value creating knowledge management”.

CEFRIEL addresses these needs with several initiatives which aim to spread the culture of technological innovation both as a strategic and managerial asset.

InnoVision, within this framework, is the new and stimulating program which allows companies to better understand complex phenomena having as focus technology and its evolution. InnoVision is born from the awareness that “smart” innovation has to be connected to an effort to have a deeper and systematic insight on the impact that new technologies have on products and services and, as a consequence, on clients and final users. Looking forward means being aware that market strategies are always more influenced by the evolution of technology and that it is therefore fundamental to join to the economic competence a profound knowledge of technology for a correct interpretation of the present market scenarios in rapid and continuous evolution. The working method on which InnoVision is based is the added value given by multidisciplinary competences requested daily in CEFRIEL for innovation and technology transfer required be companies and public administration.

From the effects of the Next Generation Networks revolution to creativity and copyright in the digital era, for example on of the challenges is trying to understand how to manage a context in which creative works exploitation in traditional economic systems are put in crisis by rules for intellectual property protection (patents, copyright, industrial property, ..) that are only slowly adapting to such a radical and fast change. These are some of the issues treated in the seminars for top managers dedicated to offer a strategic vision of the change that is taking place.

Over and above these targeted half day initiatives, CEFRIEL also proposes, in a consulting manner, the Interactive Knowledge Sharing Sessions through interactive and multidisciplinary confrontations to provide a contribution to the "vision" , to widen perspectives, to stimulate and provoke new ideas.