1. Convegno finale Catania, 25 maggio 2010 Facoltà di Economia e Commercio

2. CONFEBASK: Basque Business Confederation The Basque Business Confederation (Confebask) is the organisation which represents and defends the general and common interests of Basque businesses, and which speaks for them to the authorities, trades unions, professional bodies and public of the Basque Country. Set up in March 1983, Confebask's main purposes are to encourage private initiative and free enterprise, to encourage Basque firms to be competitive and to aid the social and economic development of the Basque Country. Membership of Confebask is voluntary, and the confederation now represents over 13,000 private companies from all sectors. It is a full member of the CEOE (Spanish Confederation of Business Organisations).CEOE

3. Context: International crisis in Spain Financial crisis - Real state new value Problem of confidence Unemployment (20%) Public Deficit: Taxes and services No loans for SME’s and consumers National consume has gone down particularly in construction sector

4. The experience of the transfer In this moment of crisis we need tools to get answers MF is a great tool to transfer and a tool to be used in the future to see the changes in the results. Model and Questionnaire: Adaptation to the Spanish and European reality Gives us the opportunity to investigate and talk with managers and entrepreneurs.

5. The panel Mainly small and medium firms, representing different sectors. 99% of the Spanish companies are SMEs Most of the companies that responded to the questionnaire represented the industrial sector, pertaining mainly to the manufacture of metals (35.9%), or mechanical engineering (21.8%) and construction (14.1%), services sector (5.1%) and from the information technology sector (3.8%).

6. Desk research main results Necessity of well trained leaders in the companies to face the crisis Companies need managers trained in management and personal skills. Problems with the knowledge no data about personal skills

7. Research Field Problems with continuous training Internationalization: New Markets Innovation: New necessities of costumers Productivity-added value

8. Evaluation of the of the overall adopted methodology Bad moment but necessary Problems with the answering of the questionnaires Focus groups: Personal opinions but very rich.

9. The potential future diffuseness of the model To the companies, we can explain the dangers of a non very well training management. To the local authorities we can inform about the necessity of a new model of management, and their needs. If we make the effort of investigate this same topics in a few years, we could see the evolution of this problems.

10. Grazie mile Thank you very much Gracias http://www.confebask.es