A method for managing an induction heating system, the induction heating system comprising: - an electrically conducting load; - an inverter circuit comprising a switching section and a resonant section, the switching section comprising switching devices adapted to generate an AC current from an AC input voltage comprising a plurality of half-waves, and the resonant section comprising an induction heating coil adapted to receive the AC current for generating a corresponding time-varying magnetic field in order to generate heat in the electrically conducting load by inductive coupling, wherein the AC current oscillates at an actuation frequency of the switching devices and has an envelope comprising a plurality of half-waves (310(i)) corresponding to the half-waves of the AC input voltage, and wherein the amount of heat generated in the load depends on the electric power delivered to the load through the induction heating coil, such delivered electric power depending in turn on the frequency of the AC current, the method comprising performing at least once the following sequence of phases a) - g): a) receiving an indication about a target electric power value to be delivered to the load; b) varying, within a same half-wave (310(i)) of the envelope, the actuation frequency according to a sequence of actuation frequency values, each actuation frequency value of the sequence being set for a corresponding time interval corresponding to a fraction of the duration of the half-wave (310(i)) of the envelope; c) for each actuation frequency value of the sequence, calculating a corresponding current peak value based on a corresponding set of at least one absolute value peak assumed by the AC current during the corresponding time interval, so as to generate a corresponding actuation frequency/current peak relation; d) generating an electric power/current peak relation, said electric power/current peak relation depicting how the delivered electric power varies as a function of the current peak of the AC current; e) selecting a current peak value corresponding to the target electric power exploiting said electric power/current peak relation; f) selecting an actuation frequency value corresponding to the selected current peak value exploiting said actuation frequency/current peak relation; g) setting the actuation frequency based on said selected actuation frequency value. - an electrically conducting load; - an inverter circuit comprising a switching section and a resonant section, the switching section comprising switching devices adapted to generate an AC current from an AC input voltage comprising a plurality of half-waves, and the resonant section comprising an induction heating coil adapted to receive the AC current for generating a corresponding time-varying magnetic field in order to generate heat in the electrically conducting load by inductive coupling, wherein the AC current oscillates at an actuation frequency of the switching devices and has an envelope comprising a plurality of half-waves (310(i)) corresponding to the half-waves of the AC input voltage, and wherein the amount of heat generated in the load depends on the electric power delivered to the load through the induction heating coil, such delivered electric power depending in turn on the frequency of the AC current, a) receiving an indication about a target electric power value to be delivered to the load; b) varying, within a same half-wave (310(i)) of the envelope, the actuation frequency according to a sequence of actuation frequency values, each actuation frequency value of the sequence being set for a corresponding time interval corresponding to a fraction of the duration of the half-wave (310(i)) of the envelope; c) for each actuation frequency value of the sequence, calculating a corresponding current peak value based on a corresponding set of at least one absolute value peak assumed by the AC current during the corresponding time interval, so as to generate a corresponding actuation frequency/current peak relation; d) generating an electric power/current peak relation, said electric power/current peak relation depicting how the delivered electric power varies as a function of the current peak of the AC current; e) selecting a current peak value corresponding to the target electric power exploiting said electric power/current peak relation; f) selecting an actuation frequency value corresponding to the selected current peak value exploiting said actuation frequency/current peak relation; g) setting the actuation frequency based on said selected actuation frequency value.