SPRING 2008 FIELD STUDY COMPANIES & PROJECT DESCRIPTIONS

 

Thomas Capital- Investment Banking, Brokerage, Asset Management

 

Project Description: Conduct general business administration; assist traders and portfolio managers

 

Firefly Facilitation- Management Consulting; Facilitation of high-impact events from leadership team effectiveness and conflict resolution to business planning and board retreats; Executive coaching

 

Project Description: Develop a marketing plan, analyzing current marketing plan, target market, and implementation strategies. Make changes to customer relationship material (blog, website, newsletter) and asses the need for a CRM application.

Recordant - Through our patented solution we capture and analyze face to face and telephone interactions and then deliver to our clients the specific business information they have targeted.

 

Project Description: Development of Strategic Plan; Competitive Analysis of Voice Recognition Companies; Development of Marketing Tools

Kera Enterprises- Operates several retail businesses and a wholesale business. Kera has evolved to a full services company now providing services to the federal government.

 

Project Description: Conduct research on key trends and latest findings related to condominium ownership. Develop a business/marketing plan to determine viability of a web-based business.

 

J. Frost - User generated content: ratings/search

 

Project Description: Serve as liaison to web companies and do some market research

 

SoloHealth - An early stage company positioned to capitalize on the growing consumer preference for self-directed health care services. Its first product, EyeSiteTM, is a self-service vision testing kiosk, which allows consumers to quickly and efficiently check their vision, without assistance.

 

Project Description: Conduct market research regarding how the initial prototype performs in a retail environment

 

Intellicon Strategies - Collects and resells waste vegetable oil / used cooking oil to the BioFuels Industry in the Greater Philadelphia Marketplace. It provides a free service to restaurants and commercial kitchens.

 

Project Description: Currently building and expanding the business. Require assistance in building financial projections and presentation materials for fundraising activities. Seeking to develop online tools for sales and collections team - project management or software development tasks

 

3d Performance - Worked for 10 years primarily in public sector providing training for large technology initiatives in state and local government. Specialty in ERP application, such as PeopleSoft, Oracle, SAP and Siebel. Other areas of practice include performance management, training development and delivery, change management, and project management

 

Project Description: Develop a sales and marketing strategy and coordinate it with internal processes

 

Omix-ada - Omix-ada is strictly a B2B company for different jeep parts and accessories focusing in wholesaling, drop shipping and exporting their products.

 

Project Description: Omix-ada offers different programs that help their business partners operate more efficiently and profitably. These programs need to be put into different packages that serve Omix's customers. They then need to be communicated to the clients so that they can use these programs in their operations.

 

Solairgen - Sales, Design, Cunsulting, Education and Installation of Renewable Energy products and systems.

 

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Metriva - Metriva's advisory service is designed to help leaders sustain a process of achievement. We specifically address problems that inhibit effective execution by combining aspects of traditional consulting services with our own innovative methodology and software.

 

Project Description: Metriva helps companies with strategy execution. As a part of our mission to help organizations achieve their strategic goals, we conduct research from time-to-time in order to identify and characterize problems that cause strategies to fail in practice. Currently, we are interested in characterizing the effect of organizational distance between subject matter experts and the places decisions are actually made.

 

 

In our experience, inefficiencies can arise within organizations when key decisions (pricing, contract terms, etc.) are made several management layers away from those individuals who have a more complete understanding of the relevant issues. We would like to develop a white paper to explore in depth the extent to which gaps between decision makers and subject matter experts vary within and across different industry groups in order to quantify any financial and non-financial ramifications.