Gianni Giacomelli

Head of Design Innovation,
MIT CCI Lab and Co- Founder Supermind Design

Gianni Giacomelli is a seasoned innovation leader and C-suite executive at Genpact (GE spinoff), a top-tier professional services and digital transformation company. He is also affiliated with prominent academic research institutions and serves as a management consultant and start-up executive. Gianni is currently involved in the implementation of sustainable innovation strategies, leveraging technology to facilitate real-world transformation. He focuses on complex global operations that require the implementation of technology-enabled solutions. These operations involve digital technology and data that are not ‘plug-and-play’ models and require a scarce talent pool.

As Chief Innovation Officer, he oversaw the innovation efforts at Genpact (NYSE ‘G’), which drives digital transformation in large, sophisticated enterprises. As innovation design head, he co-leads Massachusetts Institute of Technology’s (MIT) efforts in the collective intelligence design lab aimed at exploring and designing people–machine networks generating radical innovation.

His previous career spans more than two decades across innovation strategy, marketing, and transformation, consulting with global and emerging leaders in professional services (Boston Consulting Group, Everest, Data monitor) and software (SAP). He started his professional journey in marketing analytics with the Danone Group. He is widely published in the press and is a frequent speaker at trade conferences. Gianni has also authored several scientific papers and is an active blogger on digital and workplace topics. We spoke to Gianni to get his perspective on how digital and AI are disrupting the skills landscape.We asked Gianni to share his perspective on the following questions:

• How are digital and AI disrupting the F&A operating model?
• How are competencies in finance changing due to digital disruption and AI?
• Which skills and competencies are you targeting to hire and build?
• What programs are you running to upskill and reskill the current Workforce?
• What new roles and additional responsibilities are you seeing Finance takingup in the next 2–3 years?
• What is your advise to CFOs looking to build the workforce of the future?