Enzo Bivona

Experience

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  CED4 - System Dynamics Group

  Jul 1999 - now

  Vice-President

  CED4 (CONSTRUCTING - EXPLORING - DESIGNING - FUTURES in ORGANIZATIONS) aims to support organizations in outlining their own future and understanding how to affect it.We believe that communication and learning are very important means to pursue a sustainable growth and life-long existence of organizations.We believe that only a system and dynamic perspective can properly foster communication and learning, particularly when organizations operate in complex environments.We believe that learning is a result of a cross-fertilization process that must start from inside the organization to encompass other organizations interacting with it.We believe, therefore, that the primary role of Universities and Research is to fertilize their environment. This means promoting a continuous exchange of knowledge with other organizations to help them to survive and grow.We believe that planning must be a learning activity aimed to foster decision makers in an organization to:- Construct their own future, i.e. to build it, since the future can always be affected, even by those organizations operating in the most complex and unpredictable contexts, and characterised the availability of low tangible assets (e.g. financial resources);- Explore their own future, i.e. to figure out possible outcomes that alternative policies are likely to generate over time;- Design their own future, i.e. to reassemble the several pieces of the learning puzzle, to define the policies to adopt. Show less

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  Università degli Studi di Palermo

  Jan 2004 - now

  Professor Bivona's work focuses on Performance Management systems in private and public organisations. He uses the System Dynamics methodology to make explicit cause-and-effect relationships between relevant variables underlying the investigated business phenomena and to build simulation models to support decision makers to test and implement sustainable long term strategies. He has also investigated extensively the area of intellectual capital investments and the underlying mechanisms that organisations can activate to improve business’ performance. Since 2000, Professor Bivona has been collaborating with private and public organizations to design and implement management control systems to improve organization performance. More recently, he investigates how Compliance programs impact on the management control systems of both private and public organisations.Professor Bivona received a B.A. in Economic and Management Sciences from the University of Palermo (Italy) and a Ph.D. in Management from the University of Catania (Italy). He also holds a Master Phil in System Dynamics from the University of Bergen (Norway). He is fluent in English and conversant in French.Research InterestsPerformance ManagementPlanning and Control Systems design and implementationIntellectual CapitalCorporate Social ResponsibilityCompliance programs Show less Enzo Bivona is presently Assistant Professor in Business Management at the University of Palermo.He has a PhD in Business and Administration (University of Catania, Italy) and a Master Phil. in System Dynamics (University of Bergen, Norway). He has been member of the Policy Council of the System Dynamics Society and is currently Assistant VicePresident Meetings. His research activities are mainly focused on small business growth management, matching accounting with system dynamics models, management control systems and balanced scorecards. Recently he is doing research on:- Intellectual Capital investments, to understand how they affect business performance;- Public Management;- Corporate Social Responsibility;- Entrepreneurship and Small business start-up. He is the author of different microworlds on the above research fields. He has published several articles in system modelling and business management, and he serves as reviewer of the System Dynamics Review. Show less

  • Delegato del Rettore per la Valorizzazione della Ricerca e del Trasferimento Tecnologico

    Jan 2024 - now

  • Associate Professor of Business Management

    Jan 2015 - now

  • Assistant Professor in Business Management

    Jan 2004 - Dec 2014
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  Kasetsart University (Bangkok, Thailand)

  Sept 2010 - Sept 2010

  Visiting Professor

  Teaching a course on "Small Business Growth Management through System Dynamics modelling" at the International MBA program (KIMBA) of the Faculty of Business Administration.