The document summarizes an expert talent swarm of 24 domain experts led by four partners that provides entrepreneurship, innovation, and strategy support. It outlines issues with traditional enterprise support models such as limited funding, reach, and innovation. It then describes alternative models that have emerged like communities, crowdsourcing, accelerators, and social learning. Finally, it discusses scenario planning and mapping approaches to analyze factors like technology, universities, and success symbols that impact regions. The talent swarm aims to address issues with traditional models through alternative engagement approaches.

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