Professor Giovanni Schiuma is Professor in Innovation and Knowledge Management and Scientific Director of the Centre for Value Management at Università degli Studi della Basilicata, Italy, and Visiting Fellow at Cambridge Service Alliance, Institute for Manufacturing, University of Cambridge. He is also Visiting Research Fellow at Cranfield School of Management and Adjunct Professor at Tampere University of Technology, Finland. He received his Ph.D. in business management from the University of Rome Tor Vergata, Italy. He also served as Co-Editor in Chief of the international journal Measuring Business Excellence (Emeral publisher).
Professor Schiuma’s major research interests and consulting expertise relate to performance management and strategic knowledge assets management. His research, training and consulting focus is on the strategic management of intangible and knowledge assets to improve business performance and enhance organizational value creation capacity. He has authored or co-authored more than 130 publications. In the last years he has pioneered the development of a new management research stream focused on the value of Arts in Management, addressing how the deployment and exploitation of the arts can solve managerial issues and transform business models.
His book "The Value of Arts for Business" by Cambridge University Press represents a path-breaking manuscript investigating how the arts can shape the successful organization of 21st century.

see more details »