{"id":68570,"date":"2021-12-23T11:45:39","date_gmt":"2021-12-23T10:45:39","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/milan.eonetwork.it\/eo-italy-eo-europe-bridge\/"},"modified":"2022-02-24T12:06:30","modified_gmt":"2022-02-24T11:06:30","slug":"eo-italy-eo-europe-bridge","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/milan.eonetwork.it\/en\/eo-italy-eo-europe-bridge\/","title":{"rendered":"EO Italy – EO Europe Bridge"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

Within the EO organization there is also a forum set up called ‘EO Bridge’. Whereas with the ‘normal’ forum, you connect once a month with the members which are living in your area, with the Bride Forum you connect every quarter for several days somewhere around the world with a group of members from different countries. As EO Italy we had the pleasure to welcome the EO Europe Bridge forum in Milan in December 2021. <\/p>\n\n

The EO Europe Bridge forum had members from Greece, Germany, the Netherlands, Spain, France and even a member from the US. It can’t get more international than that! <\/p>\n\n

We organised for the Bridge Forum a visit to one of the most famous business schools SBA Boccon<\/a>i, located in Milan. Professor Marine Puricelli<\/a> gave us a lecture about the Italian SME (small, medium size enterprise) development model, which we learned is quite different from the Anglo Saxon model which is very dominant in the Western world. <\/p>\n\n

The Italian business development model is build on flexibility, high end, high quality, and is family owned, rather than focused on mass volume and publicly owned. Professor Puricelli gave a very convincing lecture about the strengths of the Italian model. After the lecture we headed out to visit Panino Giust<\/a>o, a company owned by Elena Riva and her husband, both Bocconi alumni.<\/p>\n\n

Elena told her story how she and her husband acquired the company 10 years ago, how they grew the business, and how the managed to get through the Covid pandemic. A real example of strong entrepreneurship! The visit was a real life example of the theoretical framework Professor Puricelli had presented us earlier that day.<\/p>\n\n

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An EO event is not a real EO event if there is also room for fun and good food, so after the company visit, we headed to Navigli in Milano to eat…. some real Italian pizza!<\/p>\n\n

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