Business Ecosystems

Sunday 30 October 2011

About "Confindustria" and its lack of ideas

One of the most interesting phenomena which may arise along an economic crises is the lack of ideas.
Any involved part typically reacts just providing statements or judgments towards other social entities, without depicting any real plan of actions and consequences analysis.
In the last few months this behavior occurred in Italy as well, within a layer of the Society – that of entrepreneurship – which should exhibit by nature ideas over ideas.
Small, Mid and Large Companies may be represented in Italy by an intermediate entity called “Confindustria” (i.e. Industries Federation), which tries to enlist Companies’ top priorities and speak as a single voice towards the Government, asking for contributions or support.
Question is: is this the only relevant action that such an entity can do?
I recently came up with the idea that maybe Confindustria might be used to boost a more practical – and less political – initiative to defend its affiliates and create more room for new ones: that of creating a Bank, which I will call here "BankImpresa", just to name it.

What BankImpresa should do and not do
  1. BankImpresa should be formed by those Companies – within Confindustria – which are interested to create a network to help other Companies start and grow.
  2. BankImpresa’s Customers could only be Companies, never families or other entities.
  3. BankImpresa should not ask for any Government support, never: such a mentality has to cease.
  4. BankImpresa’s return on investment should come from becoming a legal owner of a small portion of its new affiliates (those NewCos born under BankImpresa’s umbrella)
  5. BankImpresa would support those Companies which may find themselves in difficulty, providing consulting, asking other affiliates to support for a certain time, participating within the board to address governance until a tough period ends.
  6. BankImpresa should count on a small yearly contribution from its own affiliates.
Anyone interested to develop this idea?

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