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Season 2, Episode 4: One Team, One Goal: Unite Business & IT Teams

Maurizio Tessarotto | August 2025

Featuring Maurizio Tessarotto, Head of Operations, Generali Engagement Solutions GmbH

Join us for an insightful conversation with Maurizio Tessarotto, a digital transformation leader with over 15 years of experience in bridging technology and business. In this episode, Maurizio shares valuable perspectives on how organizations can unite business and IT teams to drive growth, optimize operations, and elevate the customer journey through strategic innovation.

Maurizio explores the critical importance of alignment between business and IT teams in today’s rapidly evolving market landscape. The discussion delves into real-world challenges that arise when these functions operate in isolation, illustrated through Maurizio’s compelling example of a customer-facing payment update feature that inadvertently created trust issues due to misalignment between teams. “It wasn’t bad technology, it was a missing dialogue,” Maurizio explains, highlighting how seemingly minor communication gaps can significantly impact customer experience.

Maurizio Tessarotto

Head of Operations, Generali Engagement Solutions GmbH

Maurizio Tessarotto is a seasoned digital transformation leader with over 15 years of experience bridging technology and business to drive growth, optimize operations, and elevate customer journeys.

A pivotal moment in his career came when, at just 30 years old, he was tasked with leading a major restructuring at a large insurance company, managing seven project managers who oversaw 50 technical specialists. This experience shaped his leadership philosophy around discovering each team member’s unique contribution rather than focusing on hierarchical experience. Today, Maurizio specializes in creating alignment between business and IT teams, developing shared languages across functions, and building cultures of trust that enable faster, more effective collaboration.

Key Highlights:

  • Why business-IT alignment is more critical than ever.
  • Real-world example of misalignment causing trust issues in a customer payment feature.
  • Strategies to foster collaboration through open, cross-functional dialogue.
  • How trust drives faster business outcomes.
  • Key advice: adopt open-book management for shared data, processes, and knowledge.

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