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Daslav Brkic

Following decades of experience in international client communications, with particular emphasis on
business, strategy, sales and technology deve- new strategic initiatives, until mid-2016. He had joi-
lopment in the oil & gas, power, environmental and ned Snamprogetti (later incorporated into Saipem)
telecommunications industries, Dr. Brkic has re- in 2002 as SVP Strategic Planning, Technology De-
cently founded his own top management consul- velopment and Licensing.
ting practice in marketing and strategic business He holds a Ph.D. in Chemical Engineering from the
development. In 2017 he is also scheduled to be Technical Universities of Milan, Italy, and Erlangen-
a Visiting Professor at the School of Management Nuremberg, Germany. He has attended the M.B.A.
and Graduate School of Business of the Politecni- program at the University of Chicago as well as nu-
co di Milano. merous top executive programs at Stanford GSB
After numerous assignments in R&D, international and at ABB and Eni Corporate Universities.
sales and specialty products development with An active member of the Committees for Interna-
UOP (today Honeywell), based in Chicago and in tionalization of Confindustria and Assolombarda,
London, he has led Corporate Strategic Business he is the Vice President of ANIMP and the Executi-
Development for ABB Lummus and Key Account ve Editor of the magazine “Industrial Plants”. Earlier
Management for the ABB Corporation, based in he was a Board Member of several International
The Hague, the Netherlands. Subsequently, he and Italian industry associations, such as the World
has headed the International Division of Sirti, a te- Energy Council, Society of Petroleum Engineers,
lecommunications E&C company, based in Milan, Assomineraria.
Italy. He is the author of more than 100 papers and con-
With Saipem, as Corporate SVP in the Milan he- ference speeches on energy, business, E&C and
adquarters, he has been in charge of Business technology issues.
and Technology Development, which also included

Il ritorno agli investimenti
nella “nuova normalità”

In seguito alla stabilizzazione dei prezzi del petrolio e dell’energia e alle previsioni di un loro lieve rialzo nei
prossimi anni, gli investimenti nell’industria dell’oil&gas dovrebbero iniziare a riprendersi gradualmente a partire
dal 2017, ma nell’ambito di un mondo dell’ingegneria e delle costruzioni in grande trasformazione. Questi
investimenti futuri dovranno soprattutto essere redditizi anche in questa “nuova normalità”, nelle nuove necessità
del mercato odierno. Gli scenari attuali e futuri sono infatti caratterizzati dalle aspettative di costi nettamente
inferiori rispetto al passato, obiettivo possibile con la standardizzazione e semplificazione degli aspetti progettuali
ed esecutivi, con l’ottimizzazione della supply chain e con le grandi innovazioni tecnologiche. Infatti, i nuovi
progetti hanno ottenuto recentemente la “Final Investment Decision” proprio sulla base di drastiche migliorie nei
costi e modalità di esecuzione.

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