Italy

🇮🇹 Italy counts over 4.5 million enterprises as of 2023, with services the most dynamic segment in terms of enterprise growth and investment.

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While the economy remains dominated by family-owned SMEs and mid-caps, structural challenges include low productivity, uneven digitalisation (only about 60.7% of SMEs have at least a basic level of digitalisation) and comparatively low adoption of AI (only 8% of enterprises used AI in 2024).

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This creates strong demand for executive interim management in Italy, especially to handle succession in family businesses, digital and AI transformation, operational restructuring and international expansion.

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Interim executives are often parachuted in as interim general managers, interim CFOs, Chief Digital Officers or project leaders to redesign organisations, improve governance and prepare companies for private-equity deals or cross-border M&A.