Collaborative Services

The New Consulting Process

No outsider can deliver a "solution" that's unique to your business. That's old-style top-down consulting appropriate to manufacturing operations. And it's not much help in the fast-moving knowledge world.

Today, consultants and organizations have to work closely together to identify and tackle problems. This collaboration not only result in answers tailored to your business, but also provides valuable new knowledge to management. 

Knowpreneur Consultants is skilled in business processes, problem identification, and solution development as they apply to each individual organization. We use a collaborative diagnostic and planning process that helps organizations leap barriers and reach higher levels of performance.

Here's how it manifests:

Business Advancement Program (BAP)

BAP is especially useful for organizations, new or existent, in knowledge fields -- such as life sciences, technology, professional services, creative services and digital effects -- where traditional business issues can be quite murky. 

Here's the BAP process:

  • Step 1: Taking a market-oriented, or commercial, view, we'll identify and gather relevant information about all aspects of your business.
  • Step 2: We'll use analytical tools to organize information into knowledge that creates strategic options.
  • Step 3: We'll help identify the best option and then synthesize the analysis into what must be done to pursue it. 
  • Step 4: We'll work with you to prioritize problems that might get in the way.

Innovation Facilitation

When you're facing a problem or have to innovate a process or product, you need to set up an idea factory -- the stepping outside of the usual to promote creative thinking. The best way to do this is to harness the collective brainpower of your team with idea-creation tools. Knowpreneur creates this idea manufacturing process by hosting facilitation sessions to generate ideas and then mapping out what's required to make them work. 

Team Development

Most service or production work today is accomplished by teams. But for several reasons many teams never reach the point where they perform optimally. There's a methodology to engaging people with complementary skills and diverse personalities to work together. Using a variety of coaching tools and techniques, Knowpreneur brings teams together and facilitates their drive toward objectives.  

Strategic Planning 

All organizations need to plan constantly. But the entrepreneur's trap is that you can be too busy running your  business to identify its problems, find solutions, or plan its future. Let  Knowpreneur help you envision and think it out. We're experienced visionaries and thinkers and are also practical designers of plans that work. 

Business Planning

Although they're most often designed for startup or expanding organizations, business plans are also becoming more common among organizational departments and divisions planning specific projects. There's a particular methodology to designing a winning business plan and Knowpreneur understands it implicitly. We not only prepare and write them, we train  and judge them for college and university entrepreneur training programs.

Financing

Funding is THE leading issue for growing entrepreneurial organizations, whether for profit or not for profit. Knowpreneur can help your organization identify appropriate financial resources and then prepare you to gain access to them. Our team includes experts in tax credit assistance, venture capital, lending, proposal preparation and grant applications. We have also established links with private lenders and investors.  

Marketing 

No matter how great your product or service, the truth is that if you build it, they probably won't come.  So you're going to have to go out and tell them about it. But surveys have shown that more than half of businesses identify marketing as their number one problem. In the new world of knowledge products, multiple messaging and numerous sales channels, Knowpreneur specializes in the how, why, and what of marketing. 

Product and Service Development

Many organizations are outcome-focused instead of market-oriented. They often develop products and services based on their expertise or research, and not on what the market needs or wants. The result: Commercialization becomes an afterthought to the research. But as R&D gets more expensive, the two disciplines have to be integrated. Knowpreneur helps product and services teams  put the two aspects in sync. 

 		 
``Tony's business knowledge and insight coupled with his strong commitment and caring for clients and associates, are valuable qualities in this modern ''too busy'' world of commerce. For some time, he has acted for me as a sounding board, a source of expertise, and a provider of practical advice. His calm manner, keen sense of humour, extensive knowledge, and genuine interest in who you are and what you are doing, truly set Tony apart.''

Frances McGuckin, CEO: SmallBizPro.com Services, Eastleigh Publications, Business Consultant, Professional Speaker, Author
   

                      

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