Founded in Rome in 2008, Onyx Technology has succeeded in establishing its leadership in the Information Technology (IT) market, providing highly qualified consulting services that are rigorously customised to the needs of each individual customer. Stefania Romano, CEO & FOUNDER of this all-Italian excellence, tells us about the challenges the company has had to face in order to emerge in a highly competitive and constantly evolving sector.
by Roberta Imbimbo
Dr Romano, with what mission was Onyx Technology born?
The company was founded in Rome 15 years ago with the aim of providing highly qualified corporate IT consultancy to large corporations and multinationals located throughout Italy. Thanks to a strategic vision and an innovative business approach, Onyx Technology has experienced exponential growth both in terms of organisational structure and geographical expansion, with the opening in 2016 of a second operational office in Milan. Today, this dynamic and future-oriented company has as many as 80 employees, with a high percentage of women; a high added-value peculiarity that has allowed it to win for two consecutive years the prestigious Women Value Company Award promoted by the Marisa Bellisario Foundation and Intesa San paolo for having particularly distinguished itself in the field of gender equality, the promotion of women’s careers and the development of innovative welfare policies. It therefore stands on the market as an expert and reliable partner able to support the growth of the many companies interested in integrating software development and system development activities with qualified skills. Valuing human capital and the high quality of the work offered to customers are the strengths that have enabled you to increase your brand reputation in a highly competitive market.
How important is human capital training for you?
Very much! Every day we work hard to ensure that every person who works with us is offered a real opportunity to grow personally and professionally within an open, innovative and stimulating working environment, investing considerable resources in internal professional training. More. A year ago, in collaboration with the Lazio Region, La Sapienza University and a number of prestigious companies in the area, we set up an ITS – a highly specialised technological school of excellence recognised by the Ministry of Education, University and Research (MIUR) – with the aim of enhancing the technological skills in the IT field of each member (an area in which there is much demand but little supply) and of hiring the best talents at the end of a two-year training course, as an alternative to university.
In fact, the ITS- ICT Academy was created to provide a concrete response to an ever-increasing demand for new and high-technology and digital skills, with a highly professionalised training offer (aimed at high-school and university graduates and those who want to enhance their technological background), which favours the immediate insertion of young people into the world of work. We are constantly looking for new talents, we want to guarantee our members (last year as many as 75) an adequate level of training to achieve an increasingly active and aware role in the new knowledge society and, above all, to make a great contribution to the process of digital change that is disruptively revolutionising the world of work with the introduction on the market of highly qualified professional figures, in great demand by innovative technology companies.
