Age Management in the Age of Technology: Combining Change and Tradition Through ICT Tools

In many industries, firms are currently facing a difficult trade-off. On the one hand, they have to quickly adapt to fast and unpredictable technological and market changes through innovation, new ideas and new knowledge. On the other hand, they need to preserve traditional competencies and skills that are still crucial for competitiveness and, at the same time, hard to replicate. In other words, a tension between tradition and innovation, experience and change, preservation and creation, old ways and new ideas, seems to emerge.