A sweet & sour year, a year of ups & downs, and a year of successes and opportunities to learn from difficulties, as… as in any year!

Disclaimer: personally, I’m not a fan at all of the words FAILURES and/or UNSUCCESSES, at least not in the sense in which they are normally used in our modern society, which has a (very) negative meaning.

Rather, I am definitely in favor of using them when approached as Thomas Edison used to:

“I have not failed 10,000 times—I’ve successfully found 10,000 ways that will not work”

or as Albert Einstein used to as well

“Failure is success in progress” 

Our 2022 key facts:

What was good (great…)

• We launched the MVPs for our ReACT platform and for its two first services Wiki-Logi and Academy!
• ReLOG3P has proudly contributed to the EU overall employment rate growth by starting to increase our Team:
• We are in the middle of our Startups death valley and still going strong towards exiting from it!
• We have already setup a number of Partnerships for the services offered by means of our Wiki-Logi and Academy
• Our ReACT Academy has been awarded within the SME4SMARTCITIES project, EU funded and framed within the ENI CBC Med Programme
• Ours ReACT Wiki-Logi and Processes have been awarded within the Genova Global Goals Award contest, within the Projects category and Prosperity “P” (People, Planet, Prosperity, Peace, Partnership)
• We have been selected among the first 39 companies (MNC, SMEs & Startups) to be part of the European Alliance for Industrial Data, Edge and Cloud, to provide our contribution, from the industrial (Logistics & Supply Chain) perspective for the fostering of the development and deployment (and use) of next generation edge and cloud technologies
• We have been elected as coordinators of the s.c. “Prosperous City” smart area and working group, within the Genova Smart City Association, overlooking projects related to Port, Logistics, Blue Economy and New Value Chains and Entrepreneurship (innovation & startups)
• We have had the opportunity to be included and participate as speakers and subject matter experts to a number of working parties, working groups and projects in within The United Nations Economic Commission for Europe (UNECE) and its subsidiary United Nations Centre for Trade Facilitation and Electronic Business (UN/CEFACT), in relation to topics of Logistics, Supply Chain, Trade Facilitation
• Our ReACT platform project has been selected to participate to the Global Start Up Program held by the Italian Trade and Investment Agency (ICE-ITA), that will take place in Q2-2023 in Paris at the famous Impulse Partners Centre
• We have been selected to be part of the Coalition of the Willing setup by the European Startup Network, with ours ReACT Wiki-Logi and Academy, with the aim to support the EU in creating “regional innovation valleys”, attracting and retaining talent in Europe (i.e. by contributing to the training of 1 million deep tech talents), improving innovation policy-making through clearer terminology, indicators and data-sets (standardization), as well as providing policy support to Member States
• We have been admitted within the s.c. National Technological Cluster SmartCommunitiesTech, and also selected to be part of the Technological Committee within the Cluster
• We have grown our network impressively, meting tons of great people and companies in ecosystems different from our usual, from startups to investors, from entrepreneurs to highly experience professionals from several domains, from policy makers to… friends!!

What was less good

• Starting a company is clearly including a lot of struggles, but the number one is without doubt: BUREAUCRACY!!! Always present, from the Italian Champions to the European ones and furthermore, is really difficult to face the truth that trying making business for good is made so difficult…
• Finding and retaining TALENTS:
• Questioning why we should go and work and collaborate for a unknown entity is absolutely normal and understandable. Less understandable is how those that are accepting / willing to undertake such most of the times are overselling themselves rather that giving up at the first difficulty. Life requires a constant balance between rights and dues, and nobody is in right to think that things are due to you for free…
• Furthermore: we have decided since the beginning, for several reasons, our will be a fully remote Company. Among the several and undoubtful upsides, is on us to still come out with the best Team’s collaboration stile in order to get communication and proficiency as efficient and effective as it should be, even considering the high-speed / low resources of a highly innovative Company as a Startup is
• Everybody talks about climate change, geopolitical instability, energy crisis, agility, resilience… no more time… Yet: why the heck is still so difficult to see people, companies, governments to make words and great intentions to land into REAL ACTIONS NOW??!!?!… The most time-consuming activity in believing and running a business for contributing to a social, environmental and economical sustainability (somebody even moves already towards climate neutrality, climate positiveness and/or carbon negative, regenerative models…), is to answer the question: HOW MUCH IT COST TO ME?

Good news for the less good part is: we have already identified the root causes and know which direction we’ll work for improving ourselves on those matters!

Closing up: we’ll be really happy to receive your thoughts, comments, suggestions and… wishes with us!

Thanks to everyone who followed ReLOG3P or met us at trade events this year. Let’s ReACT together and collaborate, cooperate, co-create and advance rapidly towards Sustainable Global Logistics in 2023!

Michelle & Stefano & ReLOG3P’s Team wishes you ALL a serene and regenerating holiday season and, to ALL of us, a 2023 full of health, peace, sustainability and… Success!!!