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The Fenice Project. Gian Angelo Bellati Unioncamere/Eurosportello del Veneto (Euro-Info Centre) Venice Italy. Enterprise continuity and competitiveness. Budapest, 24-25th May 2011. From the Small Business Act Review (23 Feb. 2011, 3.4). Business Transfer in Europe. - PowerPoint PPT PresentationTRANSCRIPT
The Fenice ProjectEnterprise continuity and competitiveness
Budapest, 24-25th May 2011
Gian Angelo BellatiUnioncamere/Eurosportello del Veneto
(Euro-Info Centre) Venice
Italy
From the Small Business Act Review (23 Feb. 2011, 3.4)Business Transfer in Europe
1/3 of business failures occur in the context of a
business transfer.
From the Small Business Act Review (23 Feb. 2011, 3.4)Business Transfer in Europe
Next decade:
up to 500,000 businesses to be transferred every year
Next decade:
2 million jobs
“It is essential to improve the framework conditions for business
transfers”
From the Small Business Act Review (23 Feb. 2011, 3.4)
The Commission will:
‣ identify best practices to support business transfers
‣ launch a campaign to promote these practices
Member States are invited to: ‣ develop user-friendly marketplaces and databases for
transferable businesses
‣ provide training and support to increase the number of successful business transfers, including communication campaigns to raise awareness on the need to prepare ahead of time for business transfers.
An innovative approach is needed
Governing business transfer is NOT doing business as usual
We need to create a receptive environment by coordinating different kinds of actors with an
ad hoc set of strategies and tactics
One cannot use an oldmap to discover new lands
The Fenice Project starting point
Institutional Insight and
Support
Project Governance
Design and Technical Support
EU funded 2006-2008 Project
The Fenice Project aims and toolsProject overall aim: ‣Setting up in the Veneto region a new Business Renewal Centre
In order to: ‣Transform a potential threat into a promising renovation and competitiveness opportunity
Through:‣a new top-down-top approach in the region‣supported by a creative online and off-line toolbox
The Fenice Business Renewal Centre
Regional Governance 35 Local Partners NetworkTraining of 41 Local Tutors 300+ local mSMEs involved
Vaccination Business owners
previous awareness raising
Bank of Cases38 business transfer
cases systematically classified
CofundingRegional Administration
Unioncamere/Eurosportello StudioCentroVeneto
Toolbox Online and off line
training and assistance toolsfrom EU Good Practices
The Fenice Toolbox: VaccinationAim
In co-operation with Chambers and Trade Associations, to inoculate into micro and small business owners a suitable awareness dose about their business transfer needs.
Action‣To invite Senior and Junior, male and female family members, to ‘awareness evening’ meetings.
‣To assist them in small groups (20 people) by a short confidential self-analysis, done through an European Good Practice.
OutputProvision of personalised profiles and group portrait, allowing the meeting Organiser to conduct a customised follow up.
The Fenice Toolbox: Bank of CasesAim
To build up a reliable business transfer cases collection, described through a standardised grid, allowing for comparison and conformity/non-conformity assessment around 10 Crucial Factors.
Action‣To collect transfer situations, clustering them on the basis of the Crucial Factors.
‣To define some coherent action protocols to be applied to analogous situations.
OutputA practical guide for entrepreneurs and for business transfer experts and consultants, based on exemplars, is available.
Lessons learned
‣ Be impatient
‣ Take improvident shortcuts
‣ Leave somebody behind
‣ Disergard continous monitoring
NOT TO DOs
Lessons learned
‣ Dare to change the status quo
‣ Involve institutional and technical partners since the very beginning
‣ Share with them the final project vision
‣ Rely on innovative EU Good Practices
‣ Keep in touch with the territory
‣ Train, train, train
TO DOs
Lessons learned
Regional LevelAn institution or quasi-institution (e.g. Chamber of commerce) can be the “pivot” to put together a public-private network, pooling some reliable and tested tools, without starting from scratch every time.
Lessons learned
TransferabilitySuch a methodology can be shared across regions and can contribute to build up a solid knowledge base on business transfer throughout Europe.
Start by sponsoring a “teaser” and a convenient “cultural setting”:1.Shortkit free online self-test (http://bit.ly/shortkitEN)
2.Short Tutors training and Vaccination, through Chambers and Business associations.
First steps