Knowledge Brokers New Zealand Ltd
My personal promise to you is that I will create and add value to your organisation.

The first consulting session and 'fee to benefit' assessment is provided free of charge

Doug Scott

Why values based fees are best and not hourly rates
You know in advance the total cost for the result and benefit you seek
The meter is never running; its all inclusive
As an outside to the company, I have no ‘office politics’ or distractions, so work much faster and more precisely; it costs you less
Less disputes about what’s in and what’s out of the account
The return on investment can be approved before commencement

Consulting

We provide expert specialty advice, expertise and experience which is not feasible nor even desirable for an organisation to retain by fulltime employment within an organisation. It is wisest just to bring outside expertise into the organisation on demand.

Mentoring

Your lowest cost option for bringing into an organisation specialist advice, expertise and experience. Within this structure we act as a backboard for you to bounce your own ideas against. We will provide a framework, independent evaluation and inspiration for you to bring your ideas into operation. This is a kind of DIY with guidance.

Project Management

Tell us what you want, what your goals are and we will develop a strategy and then go ahead under your watch and do it for you. We will help develop the strategy to fit your goals and then operationalise them with or for you.
 
Bringing innovation to market
Innovation has no place in the market so you have to carve one out. Do you have the expertise? Tradition marketing won’t work. Here’s where you bring in the big guns. This is an area of real expertise at low cost and big returns.

Commercialising patents
Patents by nature are new technical ideas, but the mind that creates them often does not know how to commercialise them. Millions of unsold ideas languish, yet a few ideas create millions of dollars – which will yours be? The strategy has to be right as you only get one chance for a first impression in the market. Be careful, traditional marketing will not work and sometimes even test marketing can tip off the opposition.

Clarity, motivation, time management and incentives programs
Create a plan and work the plan. Replicate your efforts through clear delegation and understanding human nature about what drives people to do what you want them to do. Simplify your life and call in the experts for a bit of mentoring.

Franchising, Licensing, Branding and IP issues
Business processes and method can be rented to others. Replicating effort and leveraging the power of the many can create good solid profits if you know how. You may own your brands but they are created by your customers, so you need a good strategic brand management plan. 

Starting a franchise or assessing one
Whether buying, selling or assessing a franchise or licensed business opportunity you don’t have the time or money to make all your own mistakes, let us shortcut your learning and get you results faster.

Multi-site retailing
There are always top performers and poor performers in any group, they all have the same brand over the door and the same products and systems - so why are they so inconsistent? Culture, knowledge, motivation and service levels probably differ. Let us do a retail performance audit and close the gaps.

Merchandising specialty stores
Display is not enough, you must merchandise in a systematic way that produces more sales and profit. You can increase sales and reduce costs with the right techniques. Read my book, ‘No Salesman Present – A way of running a profitable store by design’

Business development
It’s not enough to know a lot about your products, you must also understand the business of business! Don’t be afraid of success, growing your business is seldom difficult but may require some changes to what you are doing now.

Strategic planning, business organisation and systems
In any industry some organisations grow faster than others. This requires some-one within the organisation to step back and not work in but to work on the growth of the organisation. You may need some special methodologies and business tools or external experiences so don’t be afraid to call for help. You can not be expected to know everything and running an organisation is different to growing one.

Sales and profit strategies
Selling and making a profit should converge but they don’t always. This is a particular area where a dispassionate outsider can research or test to find real answers that permanent staff could never do.

Mergers, acquisitions, sales and succession planning
Where a short sharp hit of experienced help is all that’s needed or where differing cultures need to be adjusted, call for expert help.

CRM, database building, loyalty and incentive programs
There is no substitute for experience in building a customer relationship marketing database and for developing strategic uses of it. Used incorrectly is can be harmful to the organisation but used well it can drive it to huge successes.

Catalogue marketing and direct mail marketing
There would be few as proficient at this in New Zealand. We can show you how to grow your business using this style of marketing.

Pull-through marketing and systems
Getting your customers customers to ask for your products is not widely used but used well can produce magnificent results, particularly for new or unusual products and services.

Conferencing and tradeshows
Professional conference organisers don’t always understand the strategic business needs of the organisation, and nor do they need to, but sometimes it helps to have both those skill-sets especially with trade-shows, expos and field days.

Training company sales representatives 
Another particular specialty. A great sales Rep can be valuable to an organisation but he/she needs specialised training that very few receive. Read my book.

 
Speeches Available

Five speeches are now available in short and long versions:

Franchising as an aggressive business growth strategy
Prepare your business for franchising
How to franchise your business
Franchising, licensing, alliances and joint ventures for business growth
Disaster preparedness and recovery planning

Contact Details
Knowledge Brokers NZ Ltd
27 Walpole Ave
Hillpark
Manurewa
Manukau City 2102

Phone: +64 (0)9 267 5237
Mobile: +64 (0)27 22 99 752

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