Presentation at NILGA workshop about Energising Local SME Growth

1. A Talent swarm led by four partners, with a panel of 24+ domain
experts
• Entrepreneurship
• Innovation
• Strategy
What we are…..

2. Who have we worked with?

3. Enterprise support

4. The business model is broken
• Management development is a key impediment to growth
• Entrepreneurs have reached information overload
• Available business support and information is not relevant
• Speed of engagement too low
• Trust erosion
• Limited reach by support agencies (over 50% of SMEs do not engage)
• Limited funding available for enterprise support
• Withdrawing of enterprise support
• No innovation in enterprise delivery for last 10 years

5. Traditional
• Clustering
• Finance
• Sign posting (that is why we invented Google)
• Knowledge centres
• Internationalisation/export
• Networking (LinkedIn)
• Procurement
• Training
• Incubation
• Matching
• Business planning

6. In the meantime
• Communities of purpose
• Collective wisdom
• Forums
• Crowd funding
• Lean start up
• Agile
• Business model canvass
• Smartcamps
• Wayra
• Accelerators
• Social learning
• Women
• Social entrepreneurship
• Kahn Academy
• Coursera
• Quora
• Techtown
• Start up commissioner
• ChallengeX
• City states

7. Classic mapping
• Sectoral mix and extent of clustering
• Size structure and presence of large dynamic firms
• Knowledge base: the nature and extent of their local public research
• Institutions, universities, support facilities
• Skill levels
• Availability of public and private funding, venture capital
• Degree of entrepreneurship, business-supportive environment
• Quality of governance and leadership
• Social capital
• Quality of infrastructure

8. Alternative mapping
• Ideas, nature, society, politics, economics, culture and technology
• Technology
• Symbols of success
• Story mapping
• Universities
• Anomalies, the unexpected
• Develop scenarios

9. Scenarios
What if:
• Brexit
• Virtual reality
• Exponential change
• Summit
• Game of thrones
• Rally cry
• ChallengeX

10. Ron Immink
• Industries - Banking, Publishing, Digital, SME
• Competencies - Entrepreneurship, Innovation,
Strategy, SME engagement, Social media
• B.A Small Business, award winning and best
selling Business Author
• https://ie.linkedin.com/in/ronimmink
• +353-85-1006307