Francesco Cotrone

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Partner

Partner, member of the T&T practice, focusing on logistics, strategy development, organizational transformation, and human capital development.

Areas of Focus

Travel & transportation

Education

University of Rome Tor Vergata

Master’s Degree in Management Engineering

Past Experience

Mercer

Co-Head Organization Development & Effectiveness Practice

Francesco is a Partner at Arthur D. Little,
focusing on logistics, mobility, strategy development, organizational transformation, and human capital development.

His recent track record includes leading two flagship logistics projects in Saudi Arabia, aimed at enhancing the country’s logistics sector and its global attractiveness, and a digital strategy and transformation assignment for a public transport operator in GCC.

Throughout his career, he has worked across multiple industries, with a focus on Transportation, Logistics and ICT, on a wide range of functional topics (including strategic development, organizational design and transformation, workforce planning, capability development, digital transformation and performance improvement).

Francesco holds a Master’s Degree in Management Engineering from the University of Rome Tor Vergata.

Travel & transportation

Layering up the transport technology portfolio

The mobility sector is undergoing rapid technological changes; organizations must adapt their technology operating models to keep pace. In this Viewpoint, we propose a differentiated, multilayer operating model for planning, operating, and governing technology systems, based on their position on the technology maturity S-curve. Adopting this approach will help companies find the right balance between agility and efficiency for each technology system in their portfolio.

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Telecommunications, Information technology, Media & Electronics (TIME)

Monetizing investments in telecom network infrastructure

Vincenzo Basile, Francesco Cotrone, Christoph Uferer

In an investment-driven industry such as telecommunications, optimizing investment decisions has always represented a key competitive advantage for operators. However, in a market characterized by stagnating growth rates and increasing competition, where many telecommunication companies are facing flat or even decreasing revenues, keeping up with the latest technologies in order to ensure differentiation and meet the increasing demands of interactive services becomes binding.

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Telecommunications, Information technology, Media & Electronics (TIME)

Beyond the best network operations!

Vincenzo Basile, Dr. Karim Taga, Lokesh Dadhich, Bernd Schreiber, Francesco Cotrone

Current international industry trends predict mid-term reductions of profitability margins for telecom operators, in particularfor mature markets. This is a result of huge investments (GSMA estimates that telecom operators will invest $1.7 trillionon capex during 2014-2020) that are required to build next-generation networks in order to satisfy the data- demandexplosion and revenue reduction caused by mobile price wars and competition from OTT.

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