COLLABORATIVE STRATEGIC CONSULTING
Business Model Innovations
facilitated discussions
With global financial markets buckling under historic debt loads, business models in every industry are under closer scrutiny than ever before. The reason is clear. Sustainable debt relief will require an eventual overhaul of every economy around the world. Businesses, governments, and academic institutions (locally and globally) must collectively rethink their integrated business models and devise new ideas, new solutions, and new ways to conduct business.
Our ResearchPAYS® Collaborative Strategic Consulting is a proven service that efficiently generates innovative solutions to complex issues. Referred to as a BMI (Business Model Innovation), this modified version of a Harvard Business School-style facilitated discussion engages thought leaders and their peers in a dynamic exchange of ideas and perspectives that can lead to a list of viable recommendations.
We invite you to read more about our BMI Process to see how your firm or institution can benefit from this timely service.
BMI is an acronym for Business Model Innovations. It is an interactive group discussion process tailor-made to instigate innovative ideas from constructive dialogue among competing experts. Modeled around the famous Harvard Business School case-study method of instruction, BMI is an efficient tool for leaders to network and learn from their peers.
The BMI facilitated discussion is for industry leaders who participate professionally in one of the five sectors shown in the diagram on the right. Differing priorities, needs and challenges are deliberately addressed to explore new ways to connect social and environmental benefits with corporate profits. Issues, problems, or dilemmas become the groups inventory to innovate new business models and achieve consensus.
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About one or two weeks after each discussion, our staff prepares an interim report of the group's findings and recommendations. This report becomes a public document that is distributed to all previous and future discussion participants, who may choose to implement or further explore a recommendation. It may also be delivered elsewhere to attract future discussion participants and event sponsors.
At the conclusion of a series of topic related discussions (if there are more than one), our staff prepares a Final Report including a list of final recommendations that then becomes the official document for the overall initiative.
At the start of a BMI discussion session, participants are kindly reminded of two key rules. First, a participant's comments should be no more than 30 seconds long. In this manner ideas and inspired improvements can gain meaningful traction.
Second, the facilitator has full discretion to interrupt or extend a comment that exceeds the 30 second time limit. Skillfully orchestrated, the discussion becomes an invigorating, rapid-fire exchange of relevant and engaging ideas that can lead to new and unexplored insights.
A BMI discussion session begins with a common topic of interest that presents a multistake problem on both a local and international levels. Up to 30 participants are selected from 5 different areas of expertise based upon their title and experience. To ensure a strong turnout, BMI programs are usually scheduled during a relevant international conference.
To allow for a candid exchange, the event is closed to the press, although press conferences are permitted prior. Participants are not required to present or prepare materials, since the 90-minute roundtable session focuses on drawing upon the high-level of experience and perspectives of those engaged.
College of Saint Elizabeth, New Jersey - This BMI discussion session explored innovative ways to create jobs in America. Commissioned by a New Jersey Chamber of Commerce, this initiative engaged industry advocates for small business including SBA officials, 8-A companies, corporate procurement officers, small business owners, local politicians, and others.
This event was held prior to the Free Trade Agreement votes for Colombia, Panama, and South Korea so that the Final Report of recommendations could circulated among members of Congress and the White House for their review.
The group's findings have led to future discussions and collaborations between the White House and the local Chamber of Commerce.
Click here for a copy of the Final Report.
Santo Domingo, Dominican Republic - This BMI discussion session was among members of Brazil's largest ethanol equipment manufacturing co-op, local politicians, bankers, the IFC, and renewable energy investors. The group earmarked the session to identify business opportunities and clarify overall expectations that would lead to improved business relations between Brazil and the Dominican Republic.
This session was part of an annual trade show attracting a prominent list of local and international participants.
United Nations, NewYork - This series of 7 BMI discussions explored ways to reduce the investment risk profile of Renewable Energy investments through Business Model Innovations.
The event was well attended by 30 participants and 35 observers including CEO's of energy companies, prominent investors, the World Bank, IADB, Cornell Univesity, Banco do Brasil, the Minister of Energy of the Dominican Republic to name of few. The event generated 6 more subsequent discussions, one more at the UN and the remaining in Santo Domingo, Dominican Republic. In all, over 150 industry experts participated.
Our BMI initiative requires us to explore suitable topics for future discussions. Many of our summary reports along with our personal reflections from interacting with so many thought leaders, also provide us with interesting perspectives for opinion-editorial articles.
You are welcome to view samples of our inspired articles, by clicking on the image to the right. This link will connect you to our Blog. The articles listed here and more will appear.
Our BMI discussion sessions began as a simple idea and have since mushroomed into an effective agent for change, governed and controlled by its own participants. For many the event is an eye-opening experience, where the unlikely occurs. For example...
Sector leaders that traditioally avoided each other, suddenly were solving complex multistake problems together. Leaders with untested ideas could contribute openly avoiding any embarrassment while gaining unprededented perspectives from their peers. Others who shared their opinions as non-experts saw their ideas become interwoven within the fabric of the group's list of recommendations. The final outcome reflects a powerful collaborative process of problem-solving through consensus.
Tom Kadala is a nationally recognized speaker, presenter, panelist, author, lecturer, senior editor, inventor, and discussion facilitator on issues affecting Spanish-speaking countries, US-based Hispanics, and other multicultural markets. He has presented at numerous trade shows across the country including DMA, Folio, Meckler Media, and Comdex, and most recently is conducting facilitated discussions on renewable energy strategies at the United Nations in New York for South and Central America including the Caribbean area. He has been featured in national publications including New York Times, Inc Magazine, Entrepreneur, Success, Robb Report, and Nations Business. He has spoken at a variety of corporate events, consulted for CEOs and/or marketing departments for Fortune 500 companies including American Express, State Farm, Time Warner, Verizon, and the U.S. Department of Commerce. He is a regular television guest on economic issues at HITN (a Spanish-speaking cable station) and a regular contributor and senior editor for the Business Journal on Hispanic Research. Fluent in Spanish and Italian, Tom has a B.S. (CEE) from Cornell University and an MBA from the Harvard Business School.
In the Energy Sector the BMI initiative has attracted a who's-who list of participants that attended one of seven discussions held at the UN and in Santo Domingo, Dominican Republic between 2009 and 2010.
Notable BMI alumni include top-level representatives from the World Bank, IADB, Cornell University, Vargas Foundation, Banco do Brasil, MIT, UNICA, Verenium, UN Office for Partnerships, UN DESA Sustainable Development, US State Department, Grupo Vicini, Petrobras, Shell Oil, CNE-Comision Nacional de Energia, GE, PEW Center for Climate Change, UN Foundation, Fulbright & Jaworski, to name a few.
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