Sharing platform for SMEs to search and find resources
From now on, Share-it offers SMEs the possibility to offer or search for resources - free of charge until further notice. A simple immediate measure for quick solutions and intelligent collaboration.
One of the greatest challenges currently facing SMEs is to deploy existing resources and funds quickly, efficiently and in a targeted manner where they will bring the greatest benefit. The platform, which is available immediately, offers Share-it a quick and simple solution. Whether raw materials, labor, machinery, personnel, premises, transport and storage capacity, or IT - on the digital SME marketplace for resource allocation, SMEs can now offer existing excess capacities or request resources according to the principle "We search - We offer". Experienced SME experts accompany the process to ensure that suitable cooperation partners find each other quickly.
Sharing platform born out of practice
"Now more than ever, the motto is 'collaborate and share' to quickly arrive at new solutions as well as intelligent collaboration. With this in mind, we have Share-it and pulled together existing systems and resources," explains Carla Kaufmann, herself an SME and succession expert and partner at Companymarket AG.
Companymarket.ch is the largest Swiss brokerage platform for the sale and purchase of companies, which is now available in parallel as a sharing platform or resource marketplace through corresponding additional functions.
The idea to develop and realize a sharing platform for SMEs arose last fall in collaboration with the Lucerne University of Applied Sciences and Arts and SME Digitization and has been supported as a project by InnoSuisse since the beginning of 2020. In the meantime, various SMEs, the Lucerne University of Applied Sciences and Arts and the University of Applied Sciences Northwestern Switzerland are working on researching concepts and solutions for a successful design of sharing between SMEs.
Four steps to collaboration and sharing
As a "resource desk" and directly accessible point of contact for entrepreneurs, the digitized succession bus (successorbus.ch). Companies simply contact a team of experienced SME experts either by telephone or via chat and video conferencing functions. Together with them, the business and economic challenges are identified, opportunities for cooperation, sharing, or merging of areas are defined, and offers or needs are identified. companymarket.ch/shareit is published publicly. Subsequently, the Companymarket team contacts the identified potential cooperation partners in writing and by telephone. Share-it offers the entire service free of charge until further notice.
High solution potential thanks to BigData
For the identification of possible collaborations Companymarket has in cooperation with GetDiversity.ch via a BigData solution that allows "target lists" of companies (400,000 stored entries) to be formed and contacted by region, industry and size throughout Switzerland.
With the intention of making an effective contribution to the preservation of Swiss SMEs in the current situation based on collaboration and sharing, the Share-it motivate to new solutions.
