Survey Details
30 small to medium enterprises in Wood
1 academic personnel performed the interviews
Average time of interviews 20 to 30 min.
Human Resource for Questionnaire
Local Working Group
CRITT Bois
VAN OOST Hervé
LEMAITRE Marc
DELMOITIEZ Marie
Sélection Vosges
KIENTZ Bernard
Activities
The main activities that have been identified are :
sawmill
wood-working
furnishing
Most of them have a second activitie
Number of employees & Subcontracting
From 2 to 200
Subcontracting is not the main scope of the enterprises
Exports
Europe
International
Company Management
Industrial Properties
1 patent (individual enterprise)
1 drawing (enterprises grouped in a cluster )
Company Management
Management indicators
Company Management
Organization
Administration
Exist in most of the enterprises
Marketing department
Considered as necessary and represented by 5% of employees
R&D
Is performed by a few of the SMEs
Information management & Design – Engineering
Are not included in these enterprises
Company Management
Long life training & Employees education
Long life training is performed internally in most of the SMEs for :
1% budget, 4 days/year/employee
Domains : safety, building, driver
Employees education could not be answered by most of the enterprises
Very interesting
Often mentionned
Not considered as of great interest
Company Strategy
Orientation
Company Strategy
Market
60
50
40
30
20
10
0 area country europe
Wood sector market in the country is actually in progression
Company Strategy
Impulsion – Competitors - Constraints
Impulsion
1 year
3 years
10 years market partnership quantitative
Competitors
Local and national
Competitors well known
Constraints
Technique : qualified personnel
Environment : legislation, regulation (VOC,…)
ligne numéris ADSL
Information System
Electronic Networks & Applications
Intranet Mail serveur
YES
Local Area Net work
NO
Information System
Press subscriptions
Professional & specialized magazines
Scientific & technical publications
Business press, Regional daily press
National daily press
International daily press
Innovation & Watch
Fields of survey
Regulations
Markets
Technologies
Competitors
Suppliers
Customers
Products
Process
Recruitment
Training
Financing aids ans subsidies
Management
Not relevance Some relevance Average relevance Great relevance
Innovation & Watch
Sources of information
Employees
Co-operation, alliances
Customers
Suppliers
Competitors
Universities, laboratories
Consultancy businesses
Professional associations
Public/private research institutions
Professional publications
Exhibitions
Internet
Local or area institutional
National institutional
European institutional
Not relevance Some relevance Average relevance Great relevance
Innovation & Watch
Watch practice & Outsourcing
In terms of watch, the SMEs questioned don’t have a formalized watch methodology
Which tools of search for information ?
Meetings, contacts
Which tools of management for information ?
Writing OR speaking
Which tools of diffusion for information ?
Writing OR speaking
Networks
Motivations
Share competences
Get new markets what you can’t get alone
Diversify the customers
Rationalize the purchases
Develop the outsourcing
Grow quantitative production
Create a lobbying
Networks
Partnerships & Institutional
CRITT BOIS
UNIFA
INPI
CTBA
ENSTIB
PLAB
OPP BTP
Syndicat pat. BTP
CRITT Rodez
FFB
GIPEBLOR
CIRTES
MECANICA CGPME
Chbre Pat. Expl. For. 88 MEDEF
FNB
3iLorraine
ENSSTIN
BTP 57
AMFOP JEA
Chbre des métiers ANVAR
CG CCI
CRL
DRIRE
CRCIL