Founded in 2013 by Ing. Rodolfo Trippodo, after more than 30 years’ experience at the head of a major certification body, IQC is a company specialising in highly professional consultancy activities to support production and service companies, both public and private, to provide them with a contribution in terms of efficiency and effectiveness of services and production processes with a view to continuous improvement. Mr Giuseppe Adduce, who had shared experience with Mr Trippodo within the same certification body, instead set up Pomiager, an Information Technology company that has been offering innovative IT solutions to companies of all sizes since 2014, with the aim of simplifying their digital transformation path to make them more and more 4.0 enterprises. Although IQC and Pomiager were born as two legally separate entities, since their foundation they have been united by a single goal, namely to provide the market with highly digitally integrated consulting services aimed at tracking the performance of organisations and the skills of people in order to preserve the value chain in all economic and social transactions. And today, with IQC having acquired the ownership of Pomiager, this highly innovative group is able to fully express its distinctive vocation on the market, distinguishing itself from other players by the type of service it offers, providing Integrated Business Services and thus fostering the integration of IoT and IoC for the intelligent, sustainable and inclusive growth of its customers (all those medium-sized companies that see in IQC’s innovative tools a prospect for development). Illustrating the distinctive traits of this all-Italian excellence are Managing Director Daniela Gabellini and Research and Innovation Director Giuseppe Adduce.
by Roberta Imbimbo
Dr Gabellini, today IQC has a strong identity on the market. What peculiarities distinguish it from its competitors?
In addition to the experience and professionalism gained over many years of activity, IQC has managed to differentiate itself from other players thanks to a strategic vision and a highly innovative business approach, always careful to proactively anticipate the new needs of a constantly evolving market. This is also thanks to the considerable investments in Research & Development activities: founded as an innovative start-up, the company continues to invest resources in research, development, technology and innovation to support companies with increasingly cutting-edge services, thus making them more competitive in their target market. To this end, IQC has developed PDT (Performance Digital Traceability), a highly innovative digital solution, based on Blockchain technology, for tracking the performance of organisations, processes, services and products. In simplest terms, PDT is a secure and unalterable certification of an organisation’s excellence that does not find expression in mandatory or voluntary regulations and of a given company’s business continuity capability in Industry 4.0. Its evolution, PDT Green Line, on the other hand, is aimed at organisations wishing to demonstrate the credibility and reliability of their actions in the context of ecological transition strategies for sustainable development. PDT Green therefore makes the digital certification process simpler and smoother for those who manufacture or use products or services that reduce environmental impact, for impact studies and eco-design activities, and for those who adopt Minimum Environmental Policies or Criteria in the context of tenders. Finally, C-Box is the digital badging platform, compliant with 1EdTech standards, for the traceability of knowledge acquired in all educational and experiential contexts. All these digital solutions meet needs that are fully in line with the guidelines and orientations of the PNRR on digital and ecological transition.
Dr Adduce, Blockchain is therefore the distinctive element of your proposal. What is the added value of this innovative technology in advanced certification processes?
After several in-depth studies, we found that Blockchain offered numerous advantages in terms of security, transparency and data immutability. The use of this highly innovative technology, which has made us the leader in Italy in the reference market, has in fact profoundly revolutionised certification processes, making the data declared by a given organisation increasingly transparent and unchangeable. Armed with highly specialised know-how, we have therefore managed to create dynamic certifications by directly linking the blockchain to the company system. This allowed us, for example, to do a cyber security analysis, to protect data by making it secure and unchangeable by malware by applying a decentralised digital identity model based on blockchain technology. Indeed, Self-Sovereign Identity (SSI) opens the door to the use of modern cryptographic tools capable of achieving levels of privacy hitherto unseen in digital identity, as well as guaranteeing the Internet of Value (IoV) via the WEB3. The new frontier is also represented by NFTs (Non-Fungible Tokens), digital certificates based on blockchain technology designed to uniquely, irreplaceably and non-replicably identify the ownership of a given digital product. In the age of digital information, the application of these cutting-edge technologies also guarantees the certainty of the information source: our C-Box and PDT certificates guarantee the security of what is represented and conveyed online on all the technological platforms available today, and thus represent an important investment for companies aiming to strengthen their brand reputation with their stakeholders. They represent the new frontiers for the promotion of an organisation’s identity, guaranteeing the quality of its products, processes, services and the skills of its resources, and the real challenge of the future will be to be able to securely make economic transactions through a digital currency. An ambitious challenge that will see IQC at the forefront!
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