SBV
Inc.
Strategic Business Ventures, Inc.
Your Business Consulting Partner
Our Expertise
Over 30 years experience in strategy & organization, business development, operations management, sales & marketing, product development and supply chain management.
Strategy & Organization
Helping clients develop objectives and strategies for the long term success of the business with step by step actions to achieve those goals.
-
Helping enable the business to reach it's full economic potential.
-
Corporate alignment.
-
Resource analysis, scope, tactical objectives.
-
Define the company’s core competencies.
-
Consideration of current available resources - people, facilities, equipment.
-
Evaluate future needs to meet objectives.
-
SWOT analysis.
-
Organizational structure assessment.
-
Develop strategies that return results.
Business Development
Business development comprises a number of tasks and processes generally aiming at developing and implementing growth opportunities within and between organizations.
Business development is the creation of long-term value for an organization from customers, markets, and relationships.
-
Customers: Find new ones and extract more value from current ones.
-
Markets: Figure out where new customers “live” (both geographically and in terms of “buying mindset“) and find a way to reach them.
-
Relationships: Build and leverage relationships founded on trust and integrity to facilitate opportunities.
Operations Management
Ultimately, the nature of how operations management is carried out in an organization depends very much on the nature of the products or services in the organization, for example, in retail, manufacturing or wholesale.
-
Managing the processes to produce and distribute products and services. Includes: purchases, inventory control, quality control, storage, logistics and evaluations of processes.
-
A great deal of focus is on efficiency and effectiveness of processes, along with measurement and analysis of internal processes.
​
Sales & Marketing
Nothing starts without a sale . . .
The combination of marketing and sales is essential for business growth.
-
Marketing moves prospects & customers through the sales cycle.
-
Sales converts those prospects.
-
Development of both marketing & sales strategies and activities.
-
Evaluate ROI of activities and KPI's.
-
Integration and division of strengths and weaknesses.
​
Product Development
Product development, also called new product management, is a series of steps that includes the conceptualization, design, development and marketing of newly created or newly rebranded goods or services.
-
Product development is the process of designing, creating or updating, marketing and providing a product to a target audience.
-
Concept to execution.
-
On time and on budget.
Supply Chain Management
Supply chain management (SCM) is the oversight of materials, information, and finances as they move in a process from supplier to manufacturer to wholesaler to retailer to consumer.
-
Supply chain management involves coordinating and integrating these flows both within and among companies, including transportation and warehousing.
-
Involves the movement and storage of raw materials, of work-in-process inventory, and of finished goods from point of origin to point of consumption.
​