Organizer SME Monitor 1/2010

"There is a lack of pioneering spirit".

• State Secretary Jean-Daniel Gerber comments on entrepreneurship in Switzerland.

SMEs under the sign of economic recovery

• Important facts about the survey

Economic situation and course of business: Positive

Challenges: Price pressure and succession

Investments I: Infrastructure and IT

Investments II: Production facilities and ecological systems

Solid self-financing as credo

Personnel: skilled workers still scarce

BGM in SMEs: No need?

Apprenticeship training and continuing education: a must

Wages: No more zero rounds?

Early Retirement: Increasingly an Issue?